Week-3 - Dataw Historic Foundation https://www.datawhistory.org Fostering the rich history of Dataw Island, South Carolina Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:11:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.datawhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-Dataw-Historic-Foundation-logo-512x406-1-32x32.png Week-3 - Dataw Historic Foundation https://www.datawhistory.org 32 32 Berners Barnwell Sams (1787 – 1855) https://www.datawhistory.org/52-sams-in-52-weeks/berners-barnwell-sams-1787-1855/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:00:05 +0000 https://www.datawhistory.org/?p=3057 Dr. Berners Barnwell Sams, M.D. (1787 - 1855) - BB Sams is named after his Great Grandmother Elizabeth Anne (Berners) Barnwell and his Grandmother Bridgett (Barnwell) Sams, according to Sams' family descendants. Berners Barnwell Sams was the son of William Sams (1741-1798) and Elizabeth (Hext) Sams (1746-1813). He inherited one-third of his father's Dataw Island plantation in 1808 when he came of age. We know a fair amount about Dr. BB Sams. However, today we have a much more colorful understanding of the man. In 2019 we were given a copy of an unpublished family history penned in the early 1900s by Conway Whittle Sams (grandson of BB Sams). This unpublished work contains a first-person description of Dr. BB Sams provided by his daughter, Elizabeth Exima Sams in 1905.

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