jan 30, 1781 - Skirmish at Wantoot Plantation

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Capt. Daniel Conyers with 16 men surprised and captured forty-six (46) British Regulars, a large number of horses, wagons filled with salt and other stores on the west side of the Santee River at Wantoot Plantation. They destroyed what could not be taken with them, then took their prisoners safely across the Pee Dee River. Wantoot Plantation was owned by Daniel Ravenel, a representative of St. John's, Berkeley Parish in the South Carolina's First Provincial Congress in 1775 and in the First General Assembly in 1776.

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