Death
Laurens died on August 27, 1782, aged 27, only a few weeks before the British finally withdrew from Charleston. He was buried on the Stock plantation. After his father Henry Laurens returned from his own imprisonment in London, he had his son's remains moved to his plantation, called Mepkin, near Moncks Corner. It was later adapted as a Trappist monastery, Mepkin Abbey.
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