Dear List Members, I really need your help! I am researching Charles Tidyman ("C.T.") LOWNDES (b. 6/28/1806?/08?, d. <1884> m. Sabina Elliott HUGER 12/29 or 31/1829). C.T. LOWNDES may have "owned" one of my ggrandfathers. As C.T. LOWNDES died after 1865, it is unlikely that any former slaves were mentioned in his will or probate papers. Although he resided at 31 East Bay Street in Charleston in 1861, C.T. LOWNDES owned 370 slaves in St. Bartholomew's Parish according to pages 321, 322 and 323 of the 1860 Slave Census for Colleton County. Of the 182 male slaves, 11 were in the age range of my ggrandfather. Several members of the LOWNDES family owned properties in Colleton County. Those properties included plantations known as Oakland, Cedar Bluff, Buncome, and Laurel Springs. C.T. LOWNDES owned Oakland plantation to which he added 1,128.30 acres in 1826, including Anderson Island (not listed in Mills' 1825 Atlas of SC) and a portion of the neighboring Laurel Spring plantation of the BYNAH family (not listed in Mills' 1825 Atlas of SC). Interesting note: It is said that both C. T. LOWNDES and his wife, Sabina Elliott HUGER, were born on the Oakland plantation. MY QUESTIONS: Where was Oakland plantation located? How large was that plantation? Was 1862 the year in which many Colleton County planters began moving to the state's capitol, Columbia? Any help greatly needed and most gratefully accepted. TIA Judith Bronx, NY