Chelsea

Either a St. Julien or a Ravenel Homestead. The house is one of the oldest in the Parish. being about 120 years old. At the end of the last century it was inhabited by Peter Porcher, sor of Philip Porcher of St. Stephen's; acquiring it in right of his wife Charlotte Ravenel , after whose death it passed to her sister, Mrs. Alexander Brorghton. Her two sons Alexander and Daniel. (the latter of whom succeeded her) both died childless. Her two daughters married respectively Thomas Broughton and Philip P. Broughton of Mulberry.

In 1836 Chelsea was purchased by Dr: Morton Waring, son of  Morton A. Waring of Charleston, and he has resided there ever since. He married Anne, daughter of Nathaniel H. Rhodes of Beaufort.

Upper Beat of St. John's Berkeley By Frederick A. Porcher (55) Chelsea