Royal Judge John Drayton
Born at Magnolia Plantation in 1713, but
failing to inherit Magnolia, he purchased
an adjoining tract and built Drayton Hall in
1740, but later acquiring Magnolia from his
nephew. In a will hastily drawn the night he
died while fleeing the British, he willed
Magnolia to his son Thomas, and the smaller
Drayton Hall tract to his son Charles. For
reasons not know understood, though reputed
the colony's richest man, he left nothing to
his oldest and most illustrious son, William
Henry Drayton, revolutionary patriot, statesman,
and soldier, who died while serving in the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Marker is on 3550 Ashley River Rd, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
