Dr. George Mosse Stoney, was born June 18, 1795, the son of James Stoney of Hilton Head and Elizabeth Mosse, daughter of Dr. George Mosse, a native of Ireland. Dr. Stoney and practiced medicine and planted in St. Luke's parish on Otterburn Plantation (770 acres) which he inherited from his father on Hilton Head.
George first married Catherine Adams Jenkins, daughter of Isaac Rippon Jenkins and Hannah Scott.
They had two sons:
Reed Stoney(1816–1817)
James Mosse Stoney(1821–1870)
Catherine passed away during childbirth, November 19, 1821.
George married a second time, January 18, 1823, Sarah Woodward Barnwell, born February 28, 1803 , the fifth daughter, of Colonel Edward Barnwell and Mary Hutson Wigg.
He represented St. Luke's parish in Convention in 1844 and 1846. He died at his home in Beaufort, May 1854, and Sarah on November 28, 1879. Both are buried in St. Helena's churchyard.
They had five children:
1. Anne Barnwell Stoney, born May 25, 1824, married May 21, 1846 William John Graham, son of Captain John Graham of Strawberry Hill Plantation in St. Luke's Parish and Anne Barton Hogg. He was born September 16, 1824. After the war they moved to Rome, Georgia where he died February 5, 1877 and Anne on October 31, 1898. Both were buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome.
2. Emma Barnwell Stoney, born November 5, 1837, married her cousin Middleton Stuart, son of Colonel Middleton Stuart.
3. Charlotte Barnwell Stoney, born November 13, 1838, married her cousin, the Rev. Nathaniel Barnwell Fuller.
4. Adeline Stoney, horn in 1840, never married. After the war she made her home with her sister Charlotte in Texas and Miami, Florida where she died February 29, 1917.
5. George Mosse Stoney,Jr., born in 1843, was a sophomore at the South Carolina College when the war broke out. He did not marry and was killed in the war, March 19, 1865.
About Dr Stoney's Otterburn Plantation
Fast Facts:
General Information -
Location - Lots 12, 13, 14,15 of Bayley's Barony Lot #12 may be part of Muddy Creek)
Other names - Otter Hall, Otter Hole
Owners -
Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre, per 1783 Mosse Survey
James Stoney acquired #13 and #14 from Benjamin Bayley 17 Feb 1795.
Sr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inherited from his father.
Daughter Emma Stoney Stuart in 1854 inherited Otterburn.
Sea Island Co. bought from the Direct Tax Commission in 1866 for unpaid federal taxes.
The Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt.
W. J. Verdier, Dec. 1, 1896.
Later sold to Francis E. Wilder, Feb. 1, 1896, (500 acres for $200).
W.L. Hurley purchased from Wilder June 1919 for $500 and the right to occupy dwelling for life.
Thorne and Loomis purchase as Otter Hole.
Land - 900 acres (400 arable, 500 timber)
Maps -
Hack, "Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before 1861"
Mosse, "Hilton Head Island, 1783. Lots 12-15"
Bibliography -
Holmgren, Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle
Holmgren, Research on Hilton Head Island
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names
Additional Information:
Also known as Stuart's/Stewart's/Otterburn
Sometimes known as Otter Hall, this property originally belonged to the Stoney family. It was on the northwest side of Broad Creek, between Gardner's and Muddy Creek Place.
John Allan Stuart, editor of the Charleston Mercury during the fight for States Rights, lived in Beaufort for many years. He purchased the property from John Stoney. After confiscation by the Federal government the property was not redeemable by the prewar owners. It was bought in wartime by The Sea Island Cotton Company, a group of property investors. They in turn sold it to the United States Cotton Company in 1888. In 1896 the firm went bankrupt and Otter Hole was bought by W.J. Verdier and later sold to Francis E. Wilder. After selling it to W.L. Hurley, Wilder retained the right to occupy the house as long as he lived. Hurley in turn sold the property to Thorne and Loomis.
Holmgren, Virginia C., Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle, p. 131, 133
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. George Mosse of Savannah, married James Stoney of 770 acre Otterburn Plantation...they had fifteen children, only two survived to maturity...Dr. George Mosse Stoney (1795) inherited Otterburn where he lived as planter and practiced medicine...Property remained in the family until confiscation in 1865.
Peeples, Tales of Ante Bellum Hilton Head Families, p. 4, 5
"The Hurleys moved in on a grand scale, with a yacht at anchor in Broad Creek and an automobile - ferried across with much excited interest - in a shed."
Holmgren, p. 120
Otter Hole was purchased by Lou Alfred, John S. Littell and John Caldwell for $1,025.
John (James ?) Stoney acquired lots #13 and 14 from Bayley's Baroney, about 422 acres, in the late 18th century. The property was purchased about 1854, about the time of the death of Dr. George Mosse Stoney, by John Allan Stuart. The 1860 Agricultural Census shows Otter Hole being owned by Captain Middleton Stuart at the time of the Civil War. It had 760 acres of land producing 24 bales of cotton. Captain Delany lists the owners of Otter Hole as the United States Cotton Company in 1867. In 1897 the company failed and the land was sold by Masters of Equity to (page missing from survey).
Trinkley, Chicora Research Contribution 78, Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island
1860 census suggests that at the time of the Civil War, Otter Hole was owned by Captain Middleton Stuart. The U.S. Cotton Company owned it in 1867; in 1897 it was sold to W.J. Verdier; same year it sold to F.E. Wilder who held it until 1919 when it sold to W.L. Hurley.
A 1920 map shows what seems to be a double row of old slave houses and several associated buildings at the end of a north south road. "A 1927 newspaper article related the visit of B.F. Taylor to the rural, and isolated, island. Taylor remarked that the Otter Hole property belonged to a 'Mr. Hurley' but the overseer was a 'Mr. Crowley'."
Chicora Research Contribution 76, Archaeological Survey of Portions of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island,
Beaufort County, South Carolina, p. 13,14
The 900 acre plantation bearing the appellation of Otterburn, then Otter Hall and presently Otter Hole, was part of Bayley's Barony, Lots 12-15 of the Mosse Survey which shows it as chiefly held by planters Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre. By 1793 when he married Elizabeth, sixteen year old daughter of Dr. George Mosse at her father's home in Savannah, Otterburn was owned by James Stoney, son of Captain John Stoney. Only two of their fifteen children survived to maturity, their son, Dr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inheriting Otterburn which he planted while also practicing medicine on the island and in Beaufort where he built the large mansion which was known for years as the Sea Island Hotel. After his death in 1854 his daughter Emma married Middleton Stuart in 1855 and inherited Otterburn. The Direct Tax Commission sold it in 1865 for unpaid extortionate federal taxes; the Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt in 1896 at which time W.J. Verdier bought it, later selling it to Thorne and Loomis as Otter Hole.
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 31
George first married Catherine Adams Jenkins, daughter of Isaac Rippon Jenkins and Hannah Scott.
They had two sons:
Reed Stoney(1816–1817)
James Mosse Stoney(1821–1870)
Catherine passed away during childbirth, November 19, 1821.
George married a second time, January 18, 1823, Sarah Woodward Barnwell, born February 28, 1803 , the fifth daughter, of Colonel Edward Barnwell and Mary Hutson Wigg.
He represented St. Luke's parish in Convention in 1844 and 1846. He died at his home in Beaufort, May 1854, and Sarah on November 28, 1879. Both are buried in St. Helena's churchyard.
They had five children:
1. Anne Barnwell Stoney, born May 25, 1824, married May 21, 1846 William John Graham, son of Captain John Graham of Strawberry Hill Plantation in St. Luke's Parish and Anne Barton Hogg. He was born September 16, 1824. After the war they moved to Rome, Georgia where he died February 5, 1877 and Anne on October 31, 1898. Both were buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome.
2. Emma Barnwell Stoney, born November 5, 1837, married her cousin Middleton Stuart, son of Colonel Middleton Stuart.
3. Charlotte Barnwell Stoney, born November 13, 1838, married her cousin, the Rev. Nathaniel Barnwell Fuller.
4. Adeline Stoney, horn in 1840, never married. After the war she made her home with her sister Charlotte in Texas and Miami, Florida where she died February 29, 1917.
5. George Mosse Stoney,Jr., born in 1843, was a sophomore at the South Carolina College when the war broke out. He did not marry and was killed in the war, March 19, 1865.
About Dr Stoney's Otterburn Plantation
Fast Facts:
General Information -
Location - Lots 12, 13, 14,15 of Bayley's Barony Lot #12 may be part of Muddy Creek)
Other names - Otter Hall, Otter Hole
Owners -
Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre, per 1783 Mosse Survey
James Stoney acquired #13 and #14 from Benjamin Bayley 17 Feb 1795.
Sr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inherited from his father.
Daughter Emma Stoney Stuart in 1854 inherited Otterburn.
Sea Island Co. bought from the Direct Tax Commission in 1866 for unpaid federal taxes.
The Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt.
W. J. Verdier, Dec. 1, 1896.
Later sold to Francis E. Wilder, Feb. 1, 1896, (500 acres for $200).
W.L. Hurley purchased from Wilder June 1919 for $500 and the right to occupy dwelling for life.
Thorne and Loomis purchase as Otter Hole.
Land - 900 acres (400 arable, 500 timber)
Maps -
Hack, "Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before 1861"
Mosse, "Hilton Head Island, 1783. Lots 12-15"
Bibliography -
Holmgren, Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle
Holmgren, Research on Hilton Head Island
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names
Additional Information:
Also known as Stuart's/Stewart's/Otterburn
Sometimes known as Otter Hall, this property originally belonged to the Stoney family. It was on the northwest side of Broad Creek, between Gardner's and Muddy Creek Place.
John Allan Stuart, editor of the Charleston Mercury during the fight for States Rights, lived in Beaufort for many years. He purchased the property from John Stoney. After confiscation by the Federal government the property was not redeemable by the prewar owners. It was bought in wartime by The Sea Island Cotton Company, a group of property investors. They in turn sold it to the United States Cotton Company in 1888. In 1896 the firm went bankrupt and Otter Hole was bought by W.J. Verdier and later sold to Francis E. Wilder. After selling it to W.L. Hurley, Wilder retained the right to occupy the house as long as he lived. Hurley in turn sold the property to Thorne and Loomis.
Holmgren, Virginia C., Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle, p. 131, 133
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. George Mosse of Savannah, married James Stoney of 770 acre Otterburn Plantation...they had fifteen children, only two survived to maturity...Dr. George Mosse Stoney (1795) inherited Otterburn where he lived as planter and practiced medicine...Property remained in the family until confiscation in 1865.
Peeples, Tales of Ante Bellum Hilton Head Families, p. 4, 5
"The Hurleys moved in on a grand scale, with a yacht at anchor in Broad Creek and an automobile - ferried across with much excited interest - in a shed."
Holmgren, p. 120
Otter Hole was purchased by Lou Alfred, John S. Littell and John Caldwell for $1,025.
John (James ?) Stoney acquired lots #13 and 14 from Bayley's Baroney, about 422 acres, in the late 18th century. The property was purchased about 1854, about the time of the death of Dr. George Mosse Stoney, by John Allan Stuart. The 1860 Agricultural Census shows Otter Hole being owned by Captain Middleton Stuart at the time of the Civil War. It had 760 acres of land producing 24 bales of cotton. Captain Delany lists the owners of Otter Hole as the United States Cotton Company in 1867. In 1897 the company failed and the land was sold by Masters of Equity to (page missing from survey).
Trinkley, Chicora Research Contribution 78, Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island
1860 census suggests that at the time of the Civil War, Otter Hole was owned by Captain Middleton Stuart. The U.S. Cotton Company owned it in 1867; in 1897 it was sold to W.J. Verdier; same year it sold to F.E. Wilder who held it until 1919 when it sold to W.L. Hurley.
A 1920 map shows what seems to be a double row of old slave houses and several associated buildings at the end of a north south road. "A 1927 newspaper article related the visit of B.F. Taylor to the rural, and isolated, island. Taylor remarked that the Otter Hole property belonged to a 'Mr. Hurley' but the overseer was a 'Mr. Crowley'."
Chicora Research Contribution 76, Archaeological Survey of Portions of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island,
Beaufort County, South Carolina, p. 13,14
The 900 acre plantation bearing the appellation of Otterburn, then Otter Hall and presently Otter Hole, was part of Bayley's Barony, Lots 12-15 of the Mosse Survey which shows it as chiefly held by planters Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre. By 1793 when he married Elizabeth, sixteen year old daughter of Dr. George Mosse at her father's home in Savannah, Otterburn was owned by James Stoney, son of Captain John Stoney. Only two of their fifteen children survived to maturity, their son, Dr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inheriting Otterburn which he planted while also practicing medicine on the island and in Beaufort where he built the large mansion which was known for years as the Sea Island Hotel. After his death in 1854 his daughter Emma married Middleton Stuart in 1855 and inherited Otterburn. The Direct Tax Commission sold it in 1865 for unpaid extortionate federal taxes; the Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt in 1896 at which time W.J. Verdier bought it, later selling it to Thorne and Loomis as Otter Hole.
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 31
Dr. George Mosse Stoney, was born June 18, 1795, the son of James Stoney of Hilton Head and Elizabeth Mosse, daughter of Dr. George Mosse, a native of Ireland. Dr. Stoney and practiced medicine and planted in St. Luke's parish on Otterburn Plantation (770 acres) which he inherited from his father on Hilton Head.
George first married Catherine Adams Jenkins, daughter of Isaac Rippon Jenkins and Hannah Scott.
They had two sons:
Reed Stoney(1816–1817)
James Mosse Stoney(1821–1870)
Catherine passed away during childbirth, November 19, 1821.
George married a second time, January 18, 1823, Sarah Woodward Barnwell, born February 28, 1803 , the fifth daughter, of Colonel Edward Barnwell and Mary Hutson Wigg.
He represented St. Luke's parish in Convention in 1844 and 1846. He died at his home in Beaufort, May 1854, and Sarah on November 28, 1879. Both are buried in St. Helena's churchyard.
They had five children:
1. Anne Barnwell Stoney, born May 25, 1824, married May 21, 1846 William John Graham, son of Captain John Graham of Strawberry Hill Plantation in St. Luke's Parish and Anne Barton Hogg. He was born September 16, 1824. After the war they moved to Rome, Georgia where he died February 5, 1877 and Anne on October 31, 1898. Both were buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome.
2. Emma Barnwell Stoney, born November 5, 1837, married her cousin Middleton Stuart, son of Colonel Middleton Stuart.
3. Charlotte Barnwell Stoney, born November 13, 1838, married her cousin, the Rev. Nathaniel Barnwell Fuller.
4. Adeline Stoney, horn in 1840, never married. After the war she made her home with her sister Charlotte in Texas and Miami, Florida where she died February 29, 1917.
5. George Mosse Stoney,Jr., born in 1843, was a sophomore at the South Carolina College when the war broke out. He did not marry and was killed in the war, March 19, 1865.
About Dr Stoney's Otterburn Plantation
Fast Facts:
General Information -
Location - Lots 12, 13, 14,15 of Bayley's Barony Lot #12 may be part of Muddy Creek)
Other names - Otter Hall, Otter Hole
Owners -
Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre, per 1783 Mosse Survey
James Stoney acquired #13 and #14 from Benjamin Bayley 17 Feb 1795.
Sr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inherited from his father.
Daughter Emma Stoney Stuart in 1854 inherited Otterburn.
Sea Island Co. bought from the Direct Tax Commission in 1866 for unpaid federal taxes.
The Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt.
W. J. Verdier, Dec. 1, 1896.
Later sold to Francis E. Wilder, Feb. 1, 1896, (500 acres for $200).
W.L. Hurley purchased from Wilder June 1919 for $500 and the right to occupy dwelling for life.
Thorne and Loomis purchase as Otter Hole.
Land - 900 acres (400 arable, 500 timber)
Maps -
Hack, "Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before 1861"
Mosse, "Hilton Head Island, 1783. Lots 12-15"
Bibliography -
Holmgren, Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle
Holmgren, Research on Hilton Head Island
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names
Additional Information:
Also known as Stuart's/Stewart's/Otterburn
Sometimes known as Otter Hall, this property originally belonged to the Stoney family. It was on the northwest side of Broad Creek, between Gardner's and Muddy Creek Place.
John Allan Stuart, editor of the Charleston Mercury during the fight for States Rights, lived in Beaufort for many years. He purchased the property from John Stoney. After confiscation by the Federal government the property was not redeemable by the prewar owners. It was bought in wartime by The Sea Island Cotton Company, a group of property investors. They in turn sold it to the United States Cotton Company in 1888. In 1896 the firm went bankrupt and Otter Hole was bought by W.J. Verdier and later sold to Francis E. Wilder. After selling it to W.L. Hurley, Wilder retained the right to occupy the house as long as he lived. Hurley in turn sold the property to Thorne and Loomis.
Holmgren, Virginia C., Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle, p. 131, 133
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. George Mosse of Savannah, married James Stoney of 770 acre Otterburn Plantation...they had fifteen children, only two survived to maturity...Dr. George Mosse Stoney (1795) inherited Otterburn where he lived as planter and practiced medicine...Property remained in the family until confiscation in 1865.
Peeples, Tales of Ante Bellum Hilton Head Families, p. 4, 5
"The Hurleys moved in on a grand scale, with a yacht at anchor in Broad Creek and an automobile - ferried across with much excited interest - in a shed."
Holmgren, p. 120
Otter Hole was purchased by Lou Alfred, John S. Littell and John Caldwell for $1,025.
John (James ?) Stoney acquired lots #13 and 14 from Bayley's Baroney, about 422 acres, in the late 18th century. The property was purchased about 1854, about the time of the death of Dr. George Mosse Stoney, by John Allan Stuart. The 1860 Agricultural Census shows Otter Hole being owned by Captain Middleton Stuart at the time of the Civil War. It had 760 acres of land producing 24 bales of cotton. Captain Delany lists the owners of Otter Hole as the United States Cotton Company in 1867. In 1897 the company failed and the land was sold by Masters of Equity to (page missing from survey).
Trinkley, Chicora Research Contribution 78, Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island
1860 census suggests that at the time of the Civil War, Otter Hole was owned by Captain Middleton Stuart. The U.S. Cotton Company owned it in 1867; in 1897 it was sold to W.J. Verdier; same year it sold to F.E. Wilder who held it until 1919 when it sold to W.L. Hurley.
A 1920 map shows what seems to be a double row of old slave houses and several associated buildings at the end of a north south road. "A 1927 newspaper article related the visit of B.F. Taylor to the rural, and isolated, island. Taylor remarked that the Otter Hole property belonged to a 'Mr. Hurley' but the overseer was a 'Mr. Crowley'."
Chicora Research Contribution 76, Archaeological Survey of Portions of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island,
Beaufort County, South Carolina, p. 13,14
The 900 acre plantation bearing the appellation of Otterburn, then Otter Hall and presently Otter Hole, was part of Bayley's Barony, Lots 12-15 of the Mosse Survey which shows it as chiefly held by planters Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre. By 1793 when he married Elizabeth, sixteen year old daughter of Dr. George Mosse at her father's home in Savannah, Otterburn was owned by James Stoney, son of Captain John Stoney. Only two of their fifteen children survived to maturity, their son, Dr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inheriting Otterburn which he planted while also practicing medicine on the island and in Beaufort where he built the large mansion which was known for years as the Sea Island Hotel. After his death in 1854 his daughter Emma married Middleton Stuart in 1855 and inherited Otterburn. The Direct Tax Commission sold it in 1865 for unpaid extortionate federal taxes; the Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt in 1896 at which time W.J. Verdier bought it, later selling it to Thorne and Loomis as Otter Hole.
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 31
George first married Catherine Adams Jenkins, daughter of Isaac Rippon Jenkins and Hannah Scott.
They had two sons:
Reed Stoney(1816–1817)
James Mosse Stoney(1821–1870)
Catherine passed away during childbirth, November 19, 1821.
George married a second time, January 18, 1823, Sarah Woodward Barnwell, born February 28, 1803 , the fifth daughter, of Colonel Edward Barnwell and Mary Hutson Wigg.
He represented St. Luke's parish in Convention in 1844 and 1846. He died at his home in Beaufort, May 1854, and Sarah on November 28, 1879. Both are buried in St. Helena's churchyard.
They had five children:
1. Anne Barnwell Stoney, born May 25, 1824, married May 21, 1846 William John Graham, son of Captain John Graham of Strawberry Hill Plantation in St. Luke's Parish and Anne Barton Hogg. He was born September 16, 1824. After the war they moved to Rome, Georgia where he died February 5, 1877 and Anne on October 31, 1898. Both were buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome.
2. Emma Barnwell Stoney, born November 5, 1837, married her cousin Middleton Stuart, son of Colonel Middleton Stuart.
3. Charlotte Barnwell Stoney, born November 13, 1838, married her cousin, the Rev. Nathaniel Barnwell Fuller.
4. Adeline Stoney, horn in 1840, never married. After the war she made her home with her sister Charlotte in Texas and Miami, Florida where she died February 29, 1917.
5. George Mosse Stoney,Jr., born in 1843, was a sophomore at the South Carolina College when the war broke out. He did not marry and was killed in the war, March 19, 1865.
About Dr Stoney's Otterburn Plantation
Fast Facts:
General Information -
Location - Lots 12, 13, 14,15 of Bayley's Barony Lot #12 may be part of Muddy Creek)
Other names - Otter Hall, Otter Hole
Owners -
Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre, per 1783 Mosse Survey
James Stoney acquired #13 and #14 from Benjamin Bayley 17 Feb 1795.
Sr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inherited from his father.
Daughter Emma Stoney Stuart in 1854 inherited Otterburn.
Sea Island Co. bought from the Direct Tax Commission in 1866 for unpaid federal taxes.
The Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt.
W. J. Verdier, Dec. 1, 1896.
Later sold to Francis E. Wilder, Feb. 1, 1896, (500 acres for $200).
W.L. Hurley purchased from Wilder June 1919 for $500 and the right to occupy dwelling for life.
Thorne and Loomis purchase as Otter Hole.
Land - 900 acres (400 arable, 500 timber)
Maps -
Hack, "Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before 1861"
Mosse, "Hilton Head Island, 1783. Lots 12-15"
Bibliography -
Holmgren, Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle
Holmgren, Research on Hilton Head Island
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names
Additional Information:
Also known as Stuart's/Stewart's/Otterburn
Sometimes known as Otter Hall, this property originally belonged to the Stoney family. It was on the northwest side of Broad Creek, between Gardner's and Muddy Creek Place.
John Allan Stuart, editor of the Charleston Mercury during the fight for States Rights, lived in Beaufort for many years. He purchased the property from John Stoney. After confiscation by the Federal government the property was not redeemable by the prewar owners. It was bought in wartime by The Sea Island Cotton Company, a group of property investors. They in turn sold it to the United States Cotton Company in 1888. In 1896 the firm went bankrupt and Otter Hole was bought by W.J. Verdier and later sold to Francis E. Wilder. After selling it to W.L. Hurley, Wilder retained the right to occupy the house as long as he lived. Hurley in turn sold the property to Thorne and Loomis.
Holmgren, Virginia C., Hilton Head, A Sea Island Chronicle, p. 131, 133
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. George Mosse of Savannah, married James Stoney of 770 acre Otterburn Plantation...they had fifteen children, only two survived to maturity...Dr. George Mosse Stoney (1795) inherited Otterburn where he lived as planter and practiced medicine...Property remained in the family until confiscation in 1865.
Peeples, Tales of Ante Bellum Hilton Head Families, p. 4, 5
"The Hurleys moved in on a grand scale, with a yacht at anchor in Broad Creek and an automobile - ferried across with much excited interest - in a shed."
Holmgren, p. 120
Otter Hole was purchased by Lou Alfred, John S. Littell and John Caldwell for $1,025.
John (James ?) Stoney acquired lots #13 and 14 from Bayley's Baroney, about 422 acres, in the late 18th century. The property was purchased about 1854, about the time of the death of Dr. George Mosse Stoney, by John Allan Stuart. The 1860 Agricultural Census shows Otter Hole being owned by Captain Middleton Stuart at the time of the Civil War. It had 760 acres of land producing 24 bales of cotton. Captain Delany lists the owners of Otter Hole as the United States Cotton Company in 1867. In 1897 the company failed and the land was sold by Masters of Equity to (page missing from survey).
Trinkley, Chicora Research Contribution 78, Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island
1860 census suggests that at the time of the Civil War, Otter Hole was owned by Captain Middleton Stuart. The U.S. Cotton Company owned it in 1867; in 1897 it was sold to W.J. Verdier; same year it sold to F.E. Wilder who held it until 1919 when it sold to W.L. Hurley.
A 1920 map shows what seems to be a double row of old slave houses and several associated buildings at the end of a north south road. "A 1927 newspaper article related the visit of B.F. Taylor to the rural, and isolated, island. Taylor remarked that the Otter Hole property belonged to a 'Mr. Hurley' but the overseer was a 'Mr. Crowley'."
Chicora Research Contribution 76, Archaeological Survey of Portions of Indigo Run Plantation, Hilton Head Island,
Beaufort County, South Carolina, p. 13,14
The 900 acre plantation bearing the appellation of Otterburn, then Otter Hall and presently Otter Hole, was part of Bayley's Barony, Lots 12-15 of the Mosse Survey which shows it as chiefly held by planters Thomas Bull and Jeremiah Sayre. By 1793 when he married Elizabeth, sixteen year old daughter of Dr. George Mosse at her father's home in Savannah, Otterburn was owned by James Stoney, son of Captain John Stoney. Only two of their fifteen children survived to maturity, their son, Dr. George Mosse Stoney, born 1795, inheriting Otterburn which he planted while also practicing medicine on the island and in Beaufort where he built the large mansion which was known for years as the Sea Island Hotel. After his death in 1854 his daughter Emma married Middleton Stuart in 1855 and inherited Otterburn. The Direct Tax Commission sold it in 1865 for unpaid extortionate federal taxes; the Sea Island Cotton Company sold it in 1888 to the United States Cotton Company which went bankrupt in 1896 at which time W.J. Verdier bought it, later selling it to Thorne and Loomis as Otter Hole.
Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development), p. 31
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