Robert Smalls was a brilliant African American who took over a ship called the Planter back in the Civil War and fought behind the enemy lines. We know much of the rest of the history of this great man. Now I need to find and locate the descendants of this man and among his descendants would be surnames like Williams, Gaither, Ryder, Bampfield, and Salley or Sallee. Such locations would be Beufort and Orangeburg, S.C. Another name to this list would be that of Jones.

In one way I am related to them.

Joseph