Mepkin Plantation

Home of Henry Laurens, who was born in Charleston in 1724 and died at Mepkin in 1792. President of the first and second councils of safety, 1775-1776; president First Provincial Congress of S.C. 1775; vice president of SC 1776; president of Continental Congress 1777-78; elected minister plenipotentiary to Holland 1779. Confined fourteen months in the Tower of London and exchanged for Lord Cornwallis; signed preliminaries of peace in Paris, with Adams, Jay, and Franklin, 1782.