White Hall Plantation – White Hall – Greenwood County

Basic Information

• Location – Hard Labor Creek, Abbeville District, Whitehall, Greenwood County

  Near where SC 156 crosses US 221
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Murrays Hard Labor (4)
  

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – John Hamilton aquired the property (4).
  

• 1755 – Dr. John Murray purchased the property from John Hamilton (4).
  

• 1767 – Brigadier General Andrew Williamson purchased the plantation and change the name to White Hall (4).
  

  Williamson was a commanding officer of South Carolina's backcounty militia during the Revolutionary War but became a controversial figure. Williamson was held by American troops then rescued by the British. Some accounts label Williamson as a double-traitor, spying for both the Americans and British. He did not return to White Hall after the war, remaining at his home near Charleston instead (1).
  

• ? – House built

  The house no longer stands due to a fire (date unknown) (2, bk. 2, vol. 14, p. 46).
  

• ? – Allen Glover became owner of White Hall.
  

• 1817 – A post office was established on the property with Allen Glover as postmaster. The post office was in use until 1861 (2, bk. 1, vol. 7, p. 5).
  

• 1818 – Allen Glover moved to Alabama (3).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Chronological list – John Hamilton (?-1755); Dr. John Murray (1755-?); Brigadier General Andrew Williamson (1767-?); Allen Glover
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – Approximately 200 in 1818 when Allen Glover moved to Alabama, taking all the slaves with him (3).
  

Buildings

• A early house was destroyed by fire (2, bk. 2, vol. 14, p. 46).
  

References & Resources

1. Brigadier General Andrew Williamson

2. 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
   

3. Information from a Glover family letter contributed by Terry Moore.
   

4. Information contributed by Cindy Brown from:
   Margaret J. Watson, Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families (Greenwood, SC: The Attic Press, Inc., 1970)
    Order Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families