SC-10-3 Thomas Smith

Marker text: THOMAS SMITH
Governor of Carolina,1693-1694,
Planter, Merchant, Surgeon, arrived in Charles Town in 1684 with his first wife, Barbara Atkins, and sons, Thomas and George. A cacique by 1690, he was created Landgrave by the Lords Proprietors on May 13, 1691. He died in his 46th year on November 16, 1694. His brick town house with a wharf on Cooper River was here on the corner of East Bay & Longitude Lane. Erected by his descendants and South Carolina Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1967