... The title [to Jacksons] was evidently made and William Cattell must have transferred the place to his son in law William Walter who had married his daughter Mary. The tract is not referred to in William Cattell's will, and in a deed of that date of a tract bounding on this tract, it is stated as belonging to William Walter.
William Walter was the same William Walter who was the owner of the neighbouring Wampee plantation. He seems to have been a man of considerable means and was also the owner of the well known Crowfield plantation in the parish of St. James Goose Creek, which he purchased in 1754 from William Middleton.
William Walter died in 1766 and by his will directed certain lands including his plantation on the south side of Ashley River to be sold, and later proceedings were instituted for the settlement of his estate, and on 19 August, 1778 the Master in Chancery advertised for sale several tracts of land belonging to the estate of William Walter deceased, including the plantation called Jacksons containing 350 acres in two distinct tracts bounding north on Ashley River, east on lands late of William Cattell, Junr, decd. (The Oaks) and west on lands late of William Cattell, Senr (Brick House).
At this sale the property was evidently acquired by John Alleyne Walter the son of William Walter ...
