Blog > A "Royall" Keepsake
My name is Margaret Burns. I am a local Photographer and Realtor living in the Old Village of Mount Pleasant, S.C. I am incredibly passionate about history and will share an informal look inside yesteryear and today in the Old Village.
Following the war, in 1803, James Hibben purchased this house known as Mount Pleasant Plantation from Jacob Motte, town Treasurer who built the house in 1755. Jacob Motte called his 67 acres of land Mount Pleasant. Andrew Hibben was the only son of James Hibben, who started the Ferry Tract on the other land he called Shem Creek.
His daughter Sally Williams Dupree married a South Carolina banker icon, Robert Venning Royall. They became residents of The Hibben house following her father Andrew's death. One of their children, Sallie Royall, is my great-grandmother who grew up in this house. Sallie married Cambridge Munro Trott.
In later years, her sister Petrona Royall McIver married William Whilden McIver and took over the residence. She became a town Historian and wrote History of Mount Pleasant in 1960. Their daughter Julia McIver lived at 111 Hibben Street until she passed away in 2014. She was 113 years old. Petrona Royall McIver and her sister Sallie Royall Trott took care of my grandmother Mary Gregorie Trott when she was born since her father was off at war (WWII). Mary Gregory Trott married Moultrie Brailsford Burns, a direct descendent of General William Moultrie.
General William Moultrie was held under house arrest by the British when this House served as The British Headquarters during the Revolutionary War.
It is interesting to have two relatives from different sides of the family clan be associated with The Hibben House.
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