On 2/26/2018 1:06 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, tabby construction = oyster shells, sand and lime. The basic
ingredients in very old fashioned cement. They used the materials
available locally. That also dates back to the Spanish, Saint
Augustine, Florida.

Jill