http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fletcht2001&id=I01307&ti=5542

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• In 1678, Edward Middleton emigrated from England to Barbados and from there to South Carolina, eight years after the founding of Charleston. Receiving large grants of land on Goose Creek, not far from the colonial capital, Edward settled at a plantation he named The Oaks, and served as Lords Proprietors deputy for many years.
• His estate passed to his son, Arthur, who also was active in public life and became president of the convention that, in 1719, overthrew the Lords Proprietors.
• In 1741, Arthur's son, Henry, married Mary, the only daughter and heiress of John Williams, a wealthy landowner, Justice of the Peace and member of the Assembly.
• Mary's dowry included the house and plantation that they named Middleton Place. Here, rather than at The Oaks, they made their home.