(Palmetto Dunes Plantation)
"The Chaplins owned land on St. Helena Island and which of the brothers came to Hilton Head is not clear. Their plantation between Leamington and Mathew's contained 400 acres which was increased to 800 with the purchase of Marshlands, adjacent inland to their original purchase. Both estates were reserved by the Federal government for sale to Negroes and were not redeemable."
Holmgren, Virginia C., Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle, p. 125
"From the Chaplin family history it is not clear just which Chaplin bought the 400 acre ocean front plantation bearing the family name and later added 400-acre Marshland Plantation." (William, John or Benjamin of St. Helena's)
Peeples, Robert, Tales of Ante Bellum Hilton Head Families, p. 11
c. 1920 ".... families in the area included Christophers, Browns, Driessen, Ford, Ferguson, Porter, Simmons, Burks, Kellerson, Singleton, Green"
Grant, Moses, Looking Back, p. 14
John Chaplin arrived in Carolina in April 1672. Chaplin Creek near the confluence of the Stono and Kiawah Rivers marking the area of his residence. His son, John Chaplin, Jr., married Phoebe, daughter of John Ladson, and settled on St. Helena's Island before 1716. Their grandson, William Fripp Chaplin (1767-1830) in 1820 owned 400-acre Chaplin Plantation on the Atlantic between Mathew’s Folly Field and Pope’s Leamington Plantations. Shortly thereafter he purchased 400-acre Marshlands Plantation from the estate of Thomas Webb. Both estates were lost to the family at the time of confiscation. The name Chaplin Plantation still endures.
Peeples, Robert E.H., An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 7
