Wadboo, a Native American name, was the enormous landholding of James Colleton, son of Sir John Colleton, one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. Called a barony under the Proprietors’ plan for an American nobility, it remained in the hands of James Colleton’s descendants from the original land grant in 1683 until after the Revolutionary War. On August 29, 1782, a British foraging party of white and black troops under Maj. Thomas Fraser attacked Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and his militiamen at Wadboo, where they had camped the night before. Marion arranged his brigade around the main house and slave quarters and along a lane of large cedar trees across the creek from here, and he beat back the British attack. During the engagement, Maj. Micajah Ganey, a former Tory who had recently come over to the Whig side in a treaty at Burch’s Mill, fought heroically with Marion. From shortly after the skirmish until the British abandoned South Carolina in December, Francis Marion made Wadboo his headquarters. Here on December 15, 1782, the day after the British evacuation of Charleston, Marion dismissed his brigade and left for his ruined plantation of Pond Bluff.