Lewis Reeve

Dawtaw Island-

1774 - Reeve began to plant indigo on Dataw, but was interrupted by the Revolutionary War. After the war, Reeve sold the island to his cousin, William Sams, grandson of Beaufort's founder, Colonel John "Tuscarora Jack" Barnwell. Dataw was now under ownership by one of Beaufort's most prominent planter families, and for the next one hundred years plantation life would dominate the island.