Basic Information

• Location – Hope Creek (a branch of the South Edisto River), St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

  Located south of Jacksonboro and east of Hope Plantation Lane
  

• Origin of name – Of Native American derivation
  

• Other names – High Wassie, Rotterdam
  

• Current status – Part of Hope Plantation

Timeline

• 1758 – Earliest known date of existence.

  Belonged to Joseph Ashe

• 1783 – Willed to Sanders Glover who sold it to his brother, Joseph Glover
  

• 1792 – Acquired by Robert Lindsey who willed it to his son, James Lindsey
  

• 1811 – Lindsey sold property to John S. Ashe

• 1825 – Ashe willed property to his son, John Algernon Sidney Ashe
  

• 1872 – Property bought by Henry Bischoff

Land

• Number of acres – 1,274 in 1758

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ashe, Glover, Knox, Lindsay, Marshall

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 47 in 1783

Buildings

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Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 277-280.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860