J. Berwick apparently acquired a 312-acre plantation around 1783 – lands formerly leased by planter Daniel DeSaussure, as indicated on Dr. Mosse’s Survey. On the ocean side of the public road on the south side of Broad Creek, this would probably fall into today’s Shipyard Plantation.
Peeples, Robert E.H., An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 3
