| 1772/07/11 |
Miles Brewton |
Owner |
Miles Brewton, owner of eight slave ships and the largest slave dealer in South Carolina, buys Mount Joseph from Benjamin Farrar for 2,500 pounds. The deed includes gardens, orchards, fences, ways, water courses, and wells on the property, but no house. |
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| 1776/00/00 |
Rebecca Brewton Motte |
Home |
After a year of uncertainty, Rebecca Brewton Motte inherits her brother's considerable estate. |
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| 1780/06/00 |
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Before June, Rebecca Motte probably builds a two-to-three story I-house on Buckhead Hill at Mount Joseph. |
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| 1781/00/00 |
Thomas Pinckney |
Health |
With wife Elizabeth as his primary nurse, Thomas Pinckney recuperates at Mount Joseph after being wounded at Camden. |
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| 1781/03/00 |
Rebecca Brewton Motte |
Home |
British abandon Thompson Plantation at Belleville (US 601 at Congaree River), and confiscate the Motte plantation as a supply depot for conveys traveling from Charleston to Camden. They construct a stockade, a ditch and abatis to fortified the mansion. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 1781/05/06 |
Henry Lee III |
American Lieutenant Colonel |
Francis Marion, with 150 men and Henry Lee with 300 regulars including the Legion infantry, Oldham's Maryland Company and 140 North Carolina Continentals under Maj Pinkertham Eaton arrive at Motte's plantation. Mrs Motte moves to a nearby farmhouse. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 1781/05/06 |
Francis Marion |
American Brigadier General |
Francis Marion, with 150 men and Henry Lee with 300 regulars including the Legion infantry, Oldham's Maryland Company and 140 North Carolina Continentals under Maj Pinkertham Eaton arrive at Motte's plantation. Mrs Motte moves to a nearby farmhouse. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 1781/05/08 |
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Defended by a garrison of the 2nd Battalion of the 84th Regiment of Foot led by Lt Donald McPherson, a troop of Hessian dragoons and Loyalist Militia. Francis Marion, Henry Lee and Maj Pinkertham Eaton lay siege to the British Army's Fort Motte. |
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1778 American Revolutionary - Britain Invades The South |
| 1781/05/08 |
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Defended by a garrison of the 2nd Battalion of the 84th Regiment of Foot led by Lt Donald McPherson, a troop of Hessian dragoons and Loyalist Militia. Francis Marion, Henry Lee and Maj Pinkertham Eaton lay siege to the British Army's Fort Motte. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 1781/05/11 |
Rebecca Brewton Motte |
Patriot |
After learning that Lee had decided to shoot flaming arrows onto the Motte Mansion's shingle roof, Rebecca supplies an East Indian bow and a set of arrows to burn the British out, helping to end the siege. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 1781/05/12 |
Maj Gen Nathanael Greene |
American Commander |
British regulars surrender Fort Motte to Marion, allowing them go on the roof to put out the fires. After the soldiers left, Mrs Motte invites both the American and British officers to a good dinner at her own table. |
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Siege of Fort Motte |
| 2019/00/00 |
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Uni of South Carolina archaeologist Dr Steve Smith discovers an arrow at the Fort Motte site which could be fired from a musket. He also finds a plantation mistress' chatelaine (or belt) that would have been used for carrying keys or other items. |
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