Colleton County · Marker 15-02
Colonel John Laurens
U.S. Hwy. 17 at the Combahee River, SW of Green Pond
Front inscription
Col. John Laurens, former aide of Washington and envoy to France, was killed Aug. 27, 1782, near Tar Bluff on Combahee River in one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War and buried temporarily 7 miles east in the Stock family cemetery. "For injured rights he fell and equal laws, the noble victim of a noble cause."