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A rather handsomely drawn early South Carolina manuscript plat map.
The map shows a 1,012-acre tract northwest of Charleston. The tract is outlined in light yellow, with rivers lightly outlined in blue. The text on the document reads:
South Carolina. I do hereby certify for Adam G. Summer a Tract of Land containing One Thousand and Twelve Acres, situated in Charleston District on Caton's Bay. Surveyed for him the 5th day of February 1846 by John A. Moore. Land having such shape, form, and marks as the above plat represents. Surveyor General's Office, Columbia, Febry. 6th 1846. Thomas Frean.
The bordering tracts of land were owned by John Snell, William Whaley, J. Breadwell, Robert Shuler, and the Estate of John Shuler.
The Summer family were important early South Carolina horticulturists who imported, cultivated, and tested tree seedlings in the South during the 1830s through the 1860s. The Summers corresponded with the renowned American landscape architect A. J. Downing. Adam G. Summer (1818-1866), who owned the land surveyed on the present document, partnered with his older brother William, in Pomaria Nurseries, located in the Newberry District, which supplied fruit trees and ornamental shrubs to many South Carolina homes and plantations.
Rarity
Original Antebellum South Carolina plat maps are quite scarce.
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