Britton's Neck / Britton's Ferry

Britton's Neck, one of the oldest settlements in Marion County, lay between the Great and Little Pee Dee Rivers and extended northward from the mouth of the Little Pee Dee. It was named for Francis, Timothy, Daniel, Moses, Joseph, and Philip Britton, who settled in the neck about 1735~36; they were the sons of Francis Britton, who was in Carolina by 1697. Six miles south was Britton's Ferry on the Great Pee Dee River at the junction of the Williamsburg, Georgetown, and Marion County lines. The ferry was established by Francis Britton and two other commissioners under an Act of 1747. During the American Revolution, Britton's Neck was a center of patriot sympathy, making the ferry important to both sides.

South Carolina · United States