Brabant Plantation was the residence of Rt. Rev. Robert Smith, who was born in Norfolk, England, in 1732, was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1795 as the first Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina, and died in 1801; he is buried in St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C. On this plantation, on January 3, 1782, an engagement took place between Americans under Col. Richard Richardson and British under Maj. Coffin.