Issue 04 – How ice came to Dataw?
A story about how ice was harvested in New England and shipped to Dataw Island.
William Sams, grandson of Colonel John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell, was born in South Carolina on April 18, 1741. With the fall of Charleston and Beaufort during the American Revolution, William was forced to leave his home on Wadmalaw Island and purchased Dataw Island in 1783. At Dataw, he began to grow Sea Island cotton. It was cotton that made the Sams family wealthy and the Beaufort region “the exclusive home of the most exclusive few of that most exclusive aristocracy.”
Articles from this era address the period 1783 to 1865.
Issue 05 – Berners Barnwell Sams had fifteen children!
BB Sams had a curious way of naming his 15 children.
Issue 06 – More about B. B. Sams family
More information about the 15 children and where they are buried. CLement Charles Sams is buried in Chester, SC.
Issue 07 – Dataw produces cash crops for the world!
From an Indigo plantation to a highly successful Sea Island Cotton plantation.
Issue 08 – An exotic export business on Dataw?
Acres of orange groves on Dataw? Was this one of the earliest commercially produced oranges in the United States?
Issue 09 – King Datha…a giant among men?
The legend of a giant Indian named King Datha, the source of Dataw Island’s name.
Issue 10 – A child’s life…antebellum style.
The Rev. James Julius Sams Memoirs of Datha. Written circa 1905, they tell about his life as a child on Dataw. His reflections reveal how close he felt to his brother Horace Hann Sams, and why Horace’s death in the Civil War cut him so deeply.