Berkeley County · Marker 08-12
Brabant Plantation
Clements Ferry Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 8-98), 7.4 mi. SW of its intersection with S.C. Hwy. 41, S of Huger
Front inscription
Residence of Rt. Rev. Robert Smith, who was born in Norfolk England, 1732. He was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1795 as the first Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. He died in 1801 and was buried in St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C. On this plantation, on January 1782, an engagement took place between Americans under Col. Richard Richardson and British under Maj. Coffin.