The site is located about 14 miles from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. It was settled in 1696 by 52 people from New England who landed at Seawee Bay. This group was ship wrecked on Cape Fear on the North Carolina coast and had to spend the winter there before reaching South Carolina.
The Wappetaw Congregation included the following families:
Whilden
Jonathon, wife Elizabeth, son Jonathan
Bollough
William, wife Elizabeth, son William, son John
Hartman (Harchman, Hatman)
John, wife Elizabeth children John, Susannah, William, Ann, Mary, Richard
Hollybush
John, wife Mary, son John
Hendrick
John Hendrick, wife Mary, sons Timothy, William
Murrell
John wife Elizabeth, children Anthouny, Richard, Elizabeth, Sussannah, Sarah,
Mary, Martha
Fenwicke
Robert wife Sarah
Oliver
Mark, wife Rachel, sons George, Thomas, John, Mark
Severance
John, wife Catherine, daughter Sarah
John, wife Anne son Thomas, Joseph
White
William, son George
John wife Sarah Severance
Dorrell
Robert wife Martha, sons Jonathan, William, Joseph, Robert, Benjamin, daughters
Elizabeth, Sarah
Whiteside
Thomas, wife Sarah, children Thomas John William, Edward, Moses, Sarah, Mary,
Elizabeth
Legare
Solomon (son of Francois Legare and Anne Lancois of Boston), wife Sarah children
Sarah, Dainel, Isaac, joseph
Vanderhorst
John, wife Mary, daughter Mary, sons Joseph, John
A brief history of the Wappetaw/Seewee congregation was published in "The South
Carolina Historical Magazine", Vol LVIII, 1957, p.34 - 47, 84 - 93.