Overview Location Date Constructed/ Founded Associated Surnames Historical notes Associated Slave Workplaces Associated Free Persons Associated Enslaved Persons Research Leads and Plantation Records Miscellaneous Information References Users Researching This Workplace

Overview

Location

St. Helena Island, Beaufort Co., SC

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Chaplin

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

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Associated Free Persons

• Benjamin Chaplin (b.1776-d.1851) - plantation owner
• Elizabeth Hann Jenkins Chaplin (b.1785-d.1867) - wife of Benjamin Chaplin

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Associated Enslaved Persons

1845-1858 Slaves of Benjamin Chaplin
Mentioned in the plantation journal of Thomas B. Chaplin

• Taffy - slave of Benjamin Chaplin; wife Nelly lived at Tombee Plantation (m.1849)
• Kudjo
• Robert - escaped

1845 Slaves of Benjamin Chaplin
From "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" by Theodore Rosengarten

• 137 slaves

1850 Slaves of Benjamin Chaplin
From "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" by Theodore Rosengarten

• 133 slaves

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Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

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Miscellaneous Information

• none

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References

• Rosengarten, T. Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York, NY. 1986.
• Rootsweb World Connect Project - William G. Jenkins and Related Families

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Users Researching This Workplace

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