Nathaniel Heywood, John Gibbes, Ann Gibbes and Daniel Blake oppose a petition that proposes to establish a public landing on “one or other” of their plantations along the Combahee River. They say that a public landing would be met with "very great inconvenience to the Owners thereof, as it would expose their settlements to all the disadvantages which usually attend a Vicinity to public Landings, by giving free access to their plantations to the Idle and the Vagrant" and to the "pedling boats which frequent the river, who want only a public Landing as a Station to enable them to remain in the Vicinity of the large and productive rice plantations, for the purpose of trading with the Negroe Slaves, to the very great loss of the Owners, and Corruption of such Slaves." The petitioners contend, moreover, that there is an "already established" public landing at Dunhams, three miles away by land and five or six by water, used by rice planters in that area of St. Bartholomew's Parish.
Result: Referred to committee on roads.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
