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The Pinckney Family Connection to...
Henry Laurens was the Bunce Island's principal agent in the colonies...as well as the son-in-law of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney...it is very likely, that slaves froom Bunce Island ended up on Pinckney Island. See Article Below: Bunce Island was the largest British slave castle on the Rice Coast of West Africa. Founded around 1670, it exported tens of thousands of African captives to North America and the West Indies until the British Parliament finally closed it down in 1808. During its long and tragic history, Bunce Island was operated by four London-based companies: the Gambia Adventurers; the Royal African Company of England (which had official recognition from the British Crown); and the private firms of Grant, Oswald & Company and John & Alexander Anderson. During the 1750s Richard Oswald, Bunce Island’s principal owner, forged a strong business and personal relationship with Henry Laurens, one of the richest rice planters and slave dealers in the Colony of South Carolina. Rice planters in coastal South Carolina and Georgia were willing to pay high prices for people brought from the Rice Coast of West Africa where farmers had been growing rice for hundreds of years and were experts at its cultivation. African rice-growing know-how was essential to the prosperity of the American rice industry. Henry Laurens acted as Bunce Island’s business agent in Charleston, receiving the castle’s human cargoes from Sierra Leone and advertising and selling the African captives at auction. Laurens took a 10% commission on each sale, returning the profits to Oswald in London, often in the form of rice paid by South Carolina planters. Bunce Island’s history illustrates the complex economic relationship between the West African Rice Coast and Great Britain’s Southern Colonies. Its records show that Henry Laurens sent his own ships directly to Bunce Island to obtain slaves for his newly opened rice plantations in coastal Georgia, paying for them with ship-building supplies made from Carolina pine. The Bunce Island’s records also show that Henry Laurens helped his British business partner, Richard Oswald, open up new plantations near St. Augustine, and that Oswald dispatched a number of his skilled African workers directly from Bunce Island to build his plantations in Florida. Bunce Island also illustrates the slave trade’s political impact in North America. During the American Revolutionary War the French, jealous of Bunce Island’s commercial success, took the opportunity of their alliance with the American colonists to attack and destroy the castle in 1779. Thus, a battle of the American Revolution was actually fought on Bunce Island. But even more important, Henry Laurens, who had grown rich from the trade in African slave labor, became President of the Continental Congress and later US envoy to Holland. Captured by the British and imprisoned in the Tower of London, he was bailed out of jail by his friend Richard Oswald. Later, Laurens and Oswald sat across the table from one another at the Paris negotiations that led to American independence. Thus, US independence was negotiated, in part, between Bunce Island’s British owner and his long-time agent for the sale of Rice Coast Africans in South Carolina. Bunce Island also illustrates the enduring family ties between the Gullah people -- African Americans living today in coastal South Carolina and Georgia -- and their Rice Coast cousins. In recent years Gullah people have made two well-publicized pilgrimages to Bunce Island. In 1989, Emory Campbell, Director of Penn Center on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, led a group of Gullahs to Bunce Island in a tearful journey memorably recorded in the PBS documentary “Family Across the Sea.” In 1997, Mary Moran and her family from Harris Neck, Georgia visited Bunce Island on their trip to Sierra Leone to meet the Mende people who share an ancient African song they have retained in their family for generations here in America. Mrs. Moran’s visit is recorded in the documentary, “The Language You Cry In.” Another Gullah family with a direct link to Sierra Leone will make its own historic homecoming in 2005. The Martin Family of Charleston, South Carolina are the 7th generation descendants of a 10-year old girl, named “Priscilla,” brought on the slave ship “Hare” from Sierra Leone to Charleston in 1756. Edward Ball discovered this family link while doing research for his award-winning book Slaves in the Family (1998). A descendant of South Carolina planters, Ball chronicled the history of his own family’s slaves. He discovered that one of his ancestors purchased Priscilla, and through family records he was able to link the little girl to her modern descendants. The Sierra Leone Government recently invited the Martin Family to visit their country and make a pilgrimage to Bunce Island. Bunce Island is so strongly linked to North America, though, that its connections go well beyond South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Recent historical research has shown that slave ships based in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts stopped at Bunce Island regularly in the 1750s and 1760s. New England slave merchants sailed the human cargoes they purchased at Bunce Island to Charleston and to various ports in the West Indies. Anne Farrow, a reporter at the Hartford Courant newspaper recently discovered the log of a slave ship that was based in New London, Connecticut in the 1750s. Farrow is now retracing the ship’s route from New England, to Sierra Leone, to St. Kitts in the West Indies. Today, Bunce Island is a national historic site under the protection of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Tourism and Monuments and Relics Commission. There are substantial ruins on the island, including the factory house, fortification, slave prison, watchtowers, dormitories, storerooms, and power magazine. In 1989, a US Park Service team visited Bunce Island and issued a management plan for its preservation. In 1992, Herb Cables, Deputy Director of the Park Service, visited the site and held discussions with the Sierra Leone Government. Sierra Leone’s civil war interrupted cooperation with NPS, but with the war’s end, preservation efforts have been renewed. The US Park Service survey team suggested that Bunce Island’s ruins be stabilized with unobtrusive engineering supports, and that each building be interpreted with an all-weather display containing text, drawings and facsimile documents. The NPS team also suggested that a museum on Bunce Island’s history be constructed in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city, which tourists can visit before leaving by boat for the island. But Bunce Island is already a tourist destination in Sierra Leone. Trained Ministry of Tourism guides tour visitors through the ruins, emphasizing the site’s historic links to the Gullah people in the United States. Bunce Island can also be linked to a cultural preservation program in the Gullah region currently being planned by the US National Park Service. Books and pamphlets on Bunce Island can be made available at heritage sites in South Carolina and Georgia, and materials on Gullah history and culture can be sold at the Bunce Island museum in Sierra Leone. The Gullah people are remarkable for being the African American community that has preserved more of its African cultural heritage than any other, so it is appropriate that a link to an African heritage site (or sites) be made a part of any cultural preservation program in their region. Here in the US, the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina may be the best venue for highlighting Bunce Island’s link to the US. Charles Pinckney was a South Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but he was also the son-in-law of Henry Laurens, Bunce Island’s agent in Charleston. Thus, Africans from Bunce Island were very likely present on Pinckney’s plantation. The site of the slave dwellings at Charles Pinckney NHS has been located, and there are plans for its excavation. Pinckney’s rice plantation would provide an excellent place to highlight Bunce Island and the crucial role played by Rice Coast Africans in building the rice industry in South Carolina and Georgia. Some visitors to Charles Pinckney NHS and other Gullah heritage sites who learn about Bunce Island will undoubtedly want to visit Sierra Leone to observe the Gullahs’ roots on the Rice Coast first-hand. When Bunce Island is preserved and news stories appear in the US media, we can expect a steady stream of visitors. Many African Americans are already touring the slave castles at Goree (Senegal) and Elmina (Ghana). But those sites, though historically important for other reasons, do not have Bunce Island’s many direct links to the United States. Courtesy of Joseph Opala Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Yale University
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Finding Priscilla's Children: The...
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Gullah Culture - C-SPAN Video Library
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Chatham County Farm Convict Camp # 1,...
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Thomas Washington Family of Barnwell...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_St._Clai...
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Black Families of Alabama's...
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The Genealogy Center - African...
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Pinckney Family Papers, 1790-1925
Pinckney Family Papers, 1790-1925
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South Carolina Names Changed
Maring to legal heirs of Lymus Pinckney
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Limus Powell Pinckney of Bordeaux
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RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project:...
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Lake Carroll
This is a possible Morgane Family Cemetery.
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Plymouth Congregational Church
Freedman's Bank Savings Application 3674 in Charleston SC mentioning Isaac R Morgan/Moragne and Peter B. Morgan/Moragne.
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Frederick Campbell Cook (1812 - 1886)...
Find A Grave Cook Family of South Carolina
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Rev Charles Cotesworthy Pinckney...
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Pinckney families prominent in...
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Perry Plantation - Dorchester...
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Dick Perry ( - 1899) - Find A Grave...
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Thomas Pinckney Lowndes Cain : Memory...
When I did a search on Footnote for a slave named Daphne owned by a Pinckney, the name of Thomas Pinckney Lowndes shows up when i did a googlesearch of a thomas pinckney lowndes...it comes up as thomas pinckney lowndes CAIN. Now this is important because Daphne is mentioned by Hagar in her pension application and she gives Daphne the last name Cain IN THIS DESCRIPTION. In the only SCDAH Record with slaves named and with a slave named Daphne that is both tied to a Moragne there is also a mention of a Cain...this is also in Abbeville. Now Moragnes are local to Abbeville and Shed says he was born in Abbeville and that his mother's name was Daphne who was bound to a Pinckney. Now in the 1851 bill of sale to joseph hazel...the whole family is mentioned. Now when we connect the Bill of Sale to Cotesworth PINCKNEY the man who sold to Pinckney we find that the person who sold the slaves to him was Elizabeth Brewton PINCKNEY Lowndes...now this is more than just a coincidence.
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Shed marries Elizabeth
1877 | Beaufort County, SC
Shed and Elizabeth were married by a man by the name of Arthur Waddell. I am not so sure about the place of marriage. Arthur Waddell was the Preacher of the First African Baptist Church with ties and connections to Savannah's Baptist Church famously founded by Black Baptist Minister George Liele. In his Pension Record after his death...Elizabeth would write to the Board requesting a continuation of his pension on the grounds that she was a widow. In this exchange the Pension Board would ask Elizabeth Singleton Manigo Cook for her Marriage Certificate. In a letter, she replies that it was destroyed along with all of her other items during the Sea Island Storm of 1893. In the end the Board chooses to grant her pension.
The Sea Island Storm
1893 | Beaufort, Beaufort, South Carolina
In 1893, a massive Hurricane hit the Sea Island Coast, devastating its population and making those unable to make ends meet desolate. Two things are significant in our family history that relates to the Sea Island Hurricane or the The Storm of 1893:
1) Elizabeth, Shed's wife would mention it as a reason he was unable to produce a Marriage Certificate for the Pension Board to verify her relation to Shed.
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2) I believe that Hector Fields the individual who seems to "disappear" from all known records after selling 100 acres of land to a Stuart Point Early Settler Ben Washington in 1880, is a casualty of this storm. In a Rootsweb post it is noted a man by the name of Hector Fields who is a Resident of South Carolina before 1893 does not show up in any records after 1880. Moreover the records attributed to him on the Rootsweb Family Tree say that he died on August 27, 1893. This is extremely interesting...only because. There is also no known presence of Benjamin Washington b. 1852 after 1893. Could this be connected? Or could this be pure specualtion. And how many more Beaufort and Savannah Residents related to Stuart Point's Patriarchs died in the Hurricane of 1893?
Second Gethsemane
1892 | Stuart Point Community
In 1892, a year before the famous Sea Island Storm would hit Beaufort, Shed Manigo and Charles Delaney, two Stuart Point Settlers would begin to construct a 'Praise House' to worship in. The Story goes that Shed Manigo the only pensioner living in the Small Community would Deed the 4 acres of land it would take to build the Praise House/Church parts of which still stand today. He would enlist his sons in splitting the Pine Logs that would make not only the foundation of their future church but of their small community. Self-described Black Indians, it would be Elizabeth Singleton the Half African-Half Indian wife of Shed Manigo who would give the communion. In a tin plate underneath the Tree that would shelter the small church for centuries to come. With the most primitive of post-slavery bread-like edibles they would pray to the lord, in the end, washing it all down with nehi soda. She was affectionately called, The Mother of the Church."
Second Gethsemane Baptist Church - The Beginnings
1892 | Stuart Point Community, Beaufort County, SC
In 1892, a year before the famous Sea Island Storm would hit Beaufort, Shed Manigo and Charles Delaney, two Stuart Point Settlers would begin to construct a 'Praise House' to worship in. The Story goes that Shed Manigo the only pensioner living in the Small Community would Deed the 4 acres of land it would take to build the Praise House/Church parts of which still stand today. He would enlist his sons in splitting the Pine Logs that would make not only the foundation of their future church but of their small community. Self-described Black Indians, it would be Elizabeth Singleton the Half African-Half Indian wife of Shed Manigo who would give the communion. In a tin plate underneath the Tree that would shelter the small church for centuries to come. With the most primitive of post-slavery bread-like edibles they would pray to the lord, in the end, washing it all down with nehi soda. She was affectionately called, The Mother of the
Church."
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