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Subject: Pyatt, Allston, LaBruce of SC
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 05:41:37 +0000

Although it won't shed much light on the families mentioned in the header, there is a little of interest about the neighborhood along the Waccamaw River found in Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside, University of Chicago Press, 1984. Joyner presents a study of antebellum All Saints Parish SC, an area where some 35 plantations lined the east side of Waccamaw River from Fraser's Point on Winyah Bay on the south to Woodbourne, near the Georgetown-Horry County line, on the north. Included among these plantations were Oatlands and Turkey Hill.

On page 19, Joyner presents a chart showing distrubution of slaves on the All Saints Parish plantations. Listed are the names of plantations, number of slaves, and names of slaveholders who are presumably the plantation owners as well.

Clifton et al....William Algernon Alston, Jr [sic, one l]
Bellefield and Fairfield....Charles Alston, Sr
Oak Hill....John LaBruce
Crowfield....John Izard Middleton
Hagley et al....Plowden C J Weston
Midway....Benjamin F Dunkin
Caledonia....Estate of Robert Nesbit
Woodville....William Allan Allston [sic, 2 l's]
Waverly....Joseph Blyth Allston
Litchfield and Willbrook....Estate of John Hyrne Tucker
Oatland....Martha Allston Pyatt
Turkey Hill....William Heyward Trapier
Brookgreem et al....Estate of Joshua John Ward
Laurel Hill....Daniel W Jordan
Richmond Hill....John D Magill

page 22, "The next plantations, Woodville and Waverly, were owned by the brothers William Allan Allston and Joseph Blythe Allston. Their father had died in 1834 while they were infants. They were raised by their uncle, Robert F W Allston who managed the plantations until the brothers assumed the responsibility in 1857."

page 22-23, (as if in a boat, passing Litchfield, Willowbrook, All Saints (Episcopal) Church), "The next plantation up the river was Oatland, owned by Martha Hayes Allston Pyatt, widow of John F Pyatt (1791-1820). Mrs Pyatt continued to manage Oatland herself."

page 23, "Bordering Oatland was Turkey Hill, owned in 1860 by William Heyward Trapier, who had acquired it by marrying into the Pyatt family."

page 207, "The sources of the All Saints population included not only slaves from various parts of West Africa but also the French Huguenot Belins, LaBruces and Mazyks; the Allstons and Westons from England....settlers with regional accents from such places as Warwickshire, Lancashire, Ulster and Jamaica."

page 208, "It is said of Benjamin Allston, Sr, of Turkey Hill, father of Martha Allston Pyatt," (that he spoke Gullah in addition to English).


Among the notes are these of interest:

--Allston, Elizabeth Deas, The Allstons and Alstons of Waccamaw, Charleston, 1936.
--All Saints Waccamaw Prostestant Episcopal Church, vestry journal, South Carolina Historical Society.
--All Saints Waccamaw: Mural Tablets and Tombstone Inscriptions, South Carolina Historical Society.
--Bull, Henry DeSaussure, All Saints Church, Waccamaw, 1739-1968, Georgetown, 1968.
--Galbraith, J E, Inscriptions from the Allston Burying Grounds at Turkey Hill Plantation near Waccamaw, South Carolina Historical Museum, 1910.
--Robert F W Allston papers, South Carolina Historical Society.
--Winyah Observer, newspaper
--True Republican, newspaper, Georgetown, SC
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Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH

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