Adgers Wharf Adgers Wharf is one of the several streets in the made land to the east of East Bay Street, which still carry the names of wharfs. Adgers Wharf began its history as a low water lot (land exposed at low tide) belonging to Robert Tradd and situated across Bay Street (now East Bay) from his residence at Tradd and the Bay. Robert Tradd, a son of Richard Tradd and, according to tradition, the first English child born in South Carolina, died in 1731, bequeathing the Water Lot to Jacob Motte and his children. Motte was for many years the Public Treasurer of South Carolina and was also a prominent merchant, a sometime partner of James Laurens (brother of Henry Laurens). He built on Tradds low Water lots a large wharf known as Mottes Wharf or Mottes Bridge. Buildings on Mottes Wharf included a scale house, where items were weighed, and which apparently was large enough for Motte to locate his office and store there after the great fire of 1740. North of Mottes Wharf, which later became known as Adgers South Wharf, was Greenwoods Wharf, which later became known as Adgers North Wharf. Greenwood, a British merchant in Charles Town, was one of the consignees of tea, taxed under the Tea Act of 1773.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:24:27 +0000
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