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Plantation: Aukland of Colleton County, SC
   
Location Ashepoo River, Ivanhoe Creek
St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County, SC
Plantation Details
  Other Names: Auckland

  Timeline: 1779 - British General Augustine Prevost and his troops plundered the plantation taking slaves and horses. They burned the house and books, smashed all the furniture, china, and crystal, and killed the sheep and poultry (Bridges & Williams, p. 72). Thomas Pinckney had sent all the family's valuables to Aukland thinking they would be safer there for the duration of the war (Revolutionary War).

  Currently: Held as a timber preserve.
  Buildings: No house on the property now. .

  Owners: CC Pinckney prior to 1850, later William Sampson, W. Leith and James S. Glover. Now Paul Sanders and E.B. Sanders

Additional Information
References
 
1.
Bridges, Anne Baker Leland. St. James Santee, Plantation Parish : History and Records, 1685-1925. Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Company, Publishers, 1996.
2.
Fishburne, Lucius G. Plantation notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, (34/646) South Carolina Historical Society.