On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:01:26 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/26/2018 8:20 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:49:29 -0500, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/25/2018 6:04 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:38:47 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> that's the one Do you know the origin of 'Frogmore?' I've never
>>>>>> heard the term before that I remember.
>>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>>
>>>>> LOL Frogmore is the name of a community (can't rightly call it a town,
>>>>> it's very small!) on Saint Helena Island which, after the Civil War was
>>>>> named Frogmore after one of the plantations. When my parents first
>>>>> built the house here in 1986 their mailing address was Frogmore. It was
>>>>> later changed by the post office back to the original name the Spanish
>>>>> gave it in the 17th century.
>>>>>
>>>>> I gather the recipe for the "boil" originated with slaves and former
>>>>> slaves using local seafood, homemade sausage and vegetables from the garden.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>> ==
>>>>>
>>>>> Frogmore here is an estate where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are
>>>>> buried
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is a connection. Many places in the US are named
>>>> for places in Europe. Check it out, Jill.
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>> Aha! The plantation was named by a John Grayson after his ancestral
>>> estate in England.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Thank you. You get an A+ on your report ;-)
>> Janet US
>>
>Yay! I get a gold star. Other owners were also English.
>Lieutenant Governor William Bull acquired the land in the 1700's. He
>sold it to John and Elizabeth Stapleton, who built the "manor house" in
>1810. The property was later acquired by Thomas Aston Coffin (whose
>family owned several other plantations in the area). When the Civil War
>broke out they fled in advance of Union soldiers, abandoning all their
>holdings in Beaufort County. Somehow a couple of missionary women from
>"up north" acquired the property in 1868.
>
>Heck, Dataw was an indigo plantation. The ruins of one of the old tabby
>manor houses (the property was owned by two brothers who were members of
>the Sams family) and the outbuildings are still here. One brother made
>a bad choice and built his tabby mansion on the other side of Dataw on
>the water. Those ruins have been reclaimed by the sea.
>
>Jill

tabby = oyster shells?
Janet US