Plainsfield Plantation
(Front text)
Plainsfield Plantation, on this site, and Pawletts Plantation, nearby, were established ca. 1690
by Joseph Blake (1663-1700), one of Carolina’s Lords Proprietors and governor of the colony 1694 and 1696-1700.
Blake, who had come to the colony ca. 1685 and was soon a member of the Grand Council, named his plantations for
locales in his native Somersetshire, England.
(Reverse text)
Blake was governor when he purchased Sir John Berkeley’s proprietary share in 1694.
Blake, a Dissenter who supported religious liberty and citizenship for French Huguenots and other non-English
settlers, died in office. The “Goose Creek Men,” planters who opposed his and the Proprietors’ policies on settlers
and Indian trade, took control of the government after Blake’s death.
Marker is on Towles Road (State Road 10-92), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
