City Directories and History: The BuU family greatly increased its influence in Prince William Parish by the investment of William Bull I. In 1732,Willam Bull purchased six thousand acres from Thomas Lowndes. In the 1730s, he developed this property into the five-thousand-acre Sheldon Plantation and the thousand-acre Newbury Plantation. William Bull had been a militia colonel during the Yemassee War, and he was married to Mary Quintyne, stepdaughter of Thomas Nairne, a pioneer Indian trader and settler of the Beaufort District. William Bull I was one of the most influential political figures in colonial South Carolina, serving for many years on the Royal Council and from 1737 to 1743 as acting governor of the province. His was one of the most difficult and successful administrations in colonial South Carolina.Though William Bull’s principal seat was his father’s Ashley River plantation, Ashley Hall, by the time of his death in 1755, William Bull had moved most of his planting interests and the majority of his large slave force to Prince William Parish. At the time of his death, William Bull had 107 of his 138 slaves at Sheldon Plantation. Like his brothers,William Bull is buried at the Prince William Parish Church.
Information from: A History of Beaufort County, Vol. I, Rowland, Moore and G.C. Rogers, Jr. – Un. of S.C. Press, 1996
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