Robert Sams, Jr. on the April 18, 1741 death of his mother, inherited from his mother, Bridget Barnwell Sams, the 500 acre plantation at the northwest corner of the island; he died without progeny and it was sold in 1760 to William and Phoebe (Jenkins) Waight of Beaufort, Phoebe being a daughter of Joseph Jenkins and Phoebe C whose parents were John Chaplin and Phoebe Ladson. Their daughter, yet another Phoebe, a beautiful, charming and vivacious heiress married William Elliott who first grew there in 1790 the famous long-stapled Sea Island cotton which he developed.
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 42
