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He was one of the most prominent merchant bankers in the colony in his lifetime. He inherited a two-thousand-acre plantation located in the St James Goose Creek parish. He also owned the
Accabee plantation on the Ashley River and several other properties, including a town house with twelve slaves in
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Charleston. The town house, the family's primary residence, was built in the 1740s and is located on 49 Broad Street in
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