... as there were no other means of transport in those days we drove in their carriage to their [Wilkins'] plantation, Kelvin Grove, near Rantowle's, about twenty miles from Charleston. It was a rice and cotton plantation, but not a very large one, having only about forty slaves.
Kelvin was near the plantation of Mr. Tom Lowndes, whose pretty adopted daughter, Adela, afterward married young Gouv Wilkins. ...
