City Directories and History: Waiter Island, located in Horry County near the North Carolina line, is about three miles long. It was part of a grant made by the Lords Proprietors to the Honorable Landgrave Thomas Smith on May 13, 1691. The Honorable Thomas Smith deeded 1,150 acres of this grant, which included the island, to one William Waites, an Indian Trader, on September 16, 1726.
It has been assumed by some scholars that Waiter was a corruption of the family name Waites. However, the name Waiter is the term used for a British customs house officer (although there seems to have been no port of entry near the island). It could also have been the surname of a later owner.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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