Mepkin Plantation

Mepkin Plantation is a South Carolina historical marker in Moncks Corner, Berkeley County.

Berkeley County · S.C. Sec. Rd. 8-44, 4.9 mi. S of its intersection with S.C. Hwy. 402, S of Moncks Corner, Moncks Corner

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Home of Henry Laurens, who was born in Charleston in 1724 and died at Mepkin in 1792. President of the first and second councils of safety, 1775-1776; president First Provincial Congress of S.C. 1775; vice president of SC 1776; president of Continental Congress 1777-78; elected minister plenipotentiary to Holland 1779. Confined fourteen months in the Tower of London and exchanged for Lord Cornwallis; signed preliminaries of peace in Paris, with Adams, Jay, and Franklin, 1782.

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Mepkin Plantation

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