rice hope : history

The Proud History Of

Rice Hope Plantation & Luckins Plantation

 

1566
 A Spanish settlement is established at Santa Elena (Parris Island)
1663
 King Charles II grants the region to eight lords proprietors
1680
 Charles Town is moved to Oyster Point. 45 French Protestants arrive from England.
1692
 Daniel Huger (The Immigrent) a french Huguenot refuge, fled from France before the revocation of the edict of Nantes, escaping with his wife Margaret Perdriau, daughter Margaret and two infants Daniel and Madeleine. (R-929.3) Upon arriving he was issued a land grant. Likely in the amount of 50 to 100 acres per Family Member on board, so 250 to 500 acres. It is believed that the lands around Rice Hope plantation were part of this initial land grant.
1693

The populace is granted power to initiate legislation.

James Child of County of Buck, England arrives in South Carolina
1695
 Approximately 500 French Huguenots live in and around Charles Town.
1698

The first library is established in Charles Town by Thomas Bray.

King James grants 1200 ac to James Child
1703
 Feb 2 -Daniel Huger is granted another 160 acres by Lords Proprietors
1705
 Sept 14th - Daniel Huger is granted another 230 acres by Lords Proprietors
1705
 An Act establishes Strawberry Ferry and authorizes James Child to collect tolls.
1706
 November 30, 1706 The province is divided into 12 parishes as the Church of England becomes the state church. the parish of St. John's Berkeley is incorporated by the Church Act of 1706
1707 The town of Childsbury is laid out by James Child
1711 Oct 20th, Daniel Huger gives his son the prior land grants totaling 690 acres in his will recorded May 1712
1711 ?
 Daniel Huger's son Daniel Huger Jr buys around 5000 acres in the area, and in 1761 bequeaths the lands around Rice Hope to his son, Daniel Huger II, who had three brothers
1712 a tanhouse is built in the town of Childsbury and leased to a William Skinner
1712 Daniel Huger purchases (2) 720 acres parcels from Michael Mahon
1713 The South Carolina region separated from North Carolina and became a royal colony. Records were kept in Charleston.
1713 A deed from Michael Mahon to Daniel Huger Jr. refers to Rice Hope Plantation. There is evidence that it is known as Luckins Plantation in earlier days. It was known as a most successful rice plantation and for the beauty of its grounds.
1714 Dec 14th, Daniel Huger Jr. is granted 500 acres.
1716

Apr 30th, Daniel huger Jr. sells 1190 acres for 6300 pounds to John & Susanah Mayrant. F p.32

Nov 21, Daniel Huger sells parcel to Mayrant.
1720 James Child dies leaving 1 1/2 acres for a church and cemetary which is to become Strawberry Chapel. Additional land was left for a free school to educate area residents who supported the ferry. Funds were provided to finance public buildsings in the town. A 600 acre common was also established where each local resident could "pasture 2 cows".
1724 Daniel Huger (II) purchases land for 650 pounds from James and Susannah Mayrant (including parcel) (Book A p234)
1725 Strawberry Chapel is built, and known as a Chapel-of-Ease to St. Johns berkeley (Biggins Church)
1730
 The method of tidal flooding is developed, and the production of rice in the low country rises. The slave trade begins in earnest to clear the swamps and prepare the tidal rice fields.
1730
 Nine townships are laid out to extend the settlement and provide for a better defense. Boundary lines, defining the two Carolinas, are begun but not completed until 1815.
Settlers began to move into the interior when the colonial government provided incentives for landowners in new townships.
1731 A petition to establish the free school in Childsbury is made to the council by trustees (john Harleston, Thomas Broughton, Rev. Thomas Hassell, Anthony Bonneau, Nathaniel Broughton, Thomas Cordes, and Capt. Francis LeJeau, Esq.) The school is to be established from legacies left to teh school. To be a trustee one has to subscribe at least 100 pounds.
1733 An Act authorized the free school of Childsbury
1740
 Indigo replaces rice as the number one cash crop in the low country.

 

Daniel "The Immigrent" Huger's (1651 - 1711) Grandsons by his Son Daniel
19 Mar 1742 - 17 Oct 1797

Cherokee, Revolutionary War
John Huger 5 June 1744 - 22 Jan 1804 Revolutionary War
Benjamin Huger 30 Dec 1746 - 11 May 1779 Revolutionary War
Daniel Huger II 20 Feb 1741 - 1 July 1799  

 

1773

One of the four grandsons, Benjamin Huger, has a son

Francis Kinlock Huger (1773-1855) War 1812
1805
 Francis and a daugher of General Thomas Pinckney bear a son Major General Benjamin Huger (1805-1877) Civil War

 

1747 Land of James Childs (father of Isaac Childs), where Isaac bequestheed this land he inherited to his sisters, partition such land among Nicholas & Sarah Harleston, John and Hannah Harleston, Elias and Lydia (Chicken) Ball, and Samual Thomas (Book D-D p210) broken pages and fragments)
1748 Jan 27th, Lydia Ball accepts a 1000 pound bond to John and Nicholas harleston and placed in trust foor her. She registers her will May 9th, 1783
1754 Nov 6th - in his will Daniel Huger II (1741-1799 ) leaves Rice Hope to his son Daniel Elliot Huger and references teh two tracts of land he bought from John Mayrant totaling 720 acres each, (Shown in Book F p 52 30 apr 1724)

 

1761
 1761 The Cherokee War ended in a treaty that opened the up country for settlement. The Bounty Act of 1761 offered public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies began pouring into the Up country. See Map
1761
 One of the brothers, Isaac Huger1742-1797 joined with other notables Francis Marion, Thomas Middleton, Henry Laurens, John and William Moultrie in the Cherokee Wars.
1769
 Nine original judicial districts were established, but records continued to be kept in Charleston until 1780. "Regulators" attempt to suppress horse-stealing and arson in the inland settlements.

 

1776

1776 Three of the Four Brothers take up arms Isaac, John and Benjamin. Meanwhile the eldest, Daniel, maintains the family business.

Isaac serves with Col. Thomas Middleton, and rises quickly to becoming a General. In 1780 at the Battle of Monck's Corner, Issac is the commanding General, guards the communications lines to Charleston. There his 500 troops are are attacked at Biggins Bridge by the british lead by Lt.Col. Tarleton, and his Huger's troops escape into the swamp.

Benjamin serves with Francis Marion and attains a rank of major, he was later killed by his own men at the Battle of Stono Ferry 1779.
1777
 Marquis de Lafayette and Baron Johann de Kalb arrive on the coast of SC and as a descendent of a Huguenot, Col. Benjamin Huger entertained the dignitaries for several days.
1783
 Charles Town is renamed Charleston.
1788
 South Carolina became a state. The state government was moved from Charleston to Columbia in 1790, although some functions remained at Charleston until after the Civil War.

 

1790
 The capital is moved from Charleston to Columbia to ease the struggle between the aristocratic Low country and the poorer, industrial Up country.
1794 John Harleston writes his will in which he states " Item, I hereby give and devise unto my dearly beloved daughter Sarah (Harleston) Read and to her heirs and Assigns forever all my plantation on eth western branch of Cooper River called and known by the name of Rice Hope..." and her husband Dr. William Read.
1809 Feb 28th, Sarah Read, wife of Dr. Willaim Read, dies at Newport, hode Island
1809 Plat by John Wilson Surveyor
  John Harleston's daughter Sarah marries a Doctor William Read,and they bequeath the lands to John Harleston Read (1788 - 1859).
1817 May 9th, the May 28th issue of eth Charleston paper reports the death of John Harleston Read's wife at his residence on the Cooper River
  John Harleston Read married and bore two sons Benjamin Huger Read and William Elliot Read. ( who bought 34 meeting street in 1818, and whose lineage continues to own the home there. he died at age 27 in New York)
1831 Jan. 1709 acres are resurved of property by Edward B Bryan the request of James W. Read
1830-1840
 Overseas immigration to South Carolina, which had begun to decline about 1815, virtually ceased in this decade.

 

1860 - 1866 The War Between The States
1860

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. The Civil War began there in
1861
 About 63,000 men from the state served in the Confederate armed forces.
1861
 Major General Benjamin Huger (Son of Francis Kinloch Huger, and Grandson of Major Benjamin Huger - who was killed in the Revolutionary War) enters the Confederate Army as a Brigadier General and soon makes Major General.
1864 Union troops ransack the property, taking oil portrails of the Read family
1868
 After the War, South Carolina was readmitted to the Union. Districts were now called counties.

 

1875 Feb 10th, Elizabeth Magwood bought the property from Benny H Read (016 pg 391). Benny Read was Benjamin Read of the "Old Wallet Club"
1893 Alwyn Ball purchases the property
1919 Paper and Timber rights are sold to Coming Tee Corporation
1924 May 24th - Senator Joseph Freylinghuysen buys the property.
1929 May, major restoration and additions are made to the home by Senator Joseph Freylinghuysen .
1936 May 7th, Reginald Fincke, an Englishman who is a stockbroker in Newyork buys the property.
1943 Dec 22nd, Santee Cooper acquires the flow rights to the property (from R. Fincke)
1949 Dec 19th, Col John Simpson and his wife Catherine buy the property from West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco)
1953 April, Capt JOhn and Elizabeth C. Brady Purchase the property
1965 July 8th, Rice Hope Estates is sold to Investors Investments, Inc.
1966 Apr 21, Investors Ince sells to American Mortgage and Investment Co. Book A-158 p123
1968 From 1968-1971 the bome is used as a Boys Home and is run by Mr. David Reconnu and his wife Helen
1971 Mr. D.Z. Rowell take spossession on the plantation and tries to maintain teh property
1983 Lt. Col Gene and Sue Lanier purchase the property in a dilapidates state and begin restoration of the home ground and garden.
1987 Mar 4th, the house is opened as a bed and breakfast by Gene and Sue Lanier
1992 June 15th, Richard adn Doris Kasprak purchase the home and continue the restoration process and bed and breakfast
1999 Aug 31 - Lou Edens purchases the home and continues the operation of the bed and breakfast