Construction of this plantation reportedly began in 1790 on 700 acres of land granted to Abraham Adderley, a British-born subject with an established in business Nassau, New Providence Island. The property increased to 2,500 acres in 1820 under his Long Island born son, William, who grew cotton and raised livestock (cattle, sheep, horses) for work and transport. William married a local woman, but his offspring, James, did not claim possession of the plantation, although he had rights to it. Instead, the plantation's master and herdsman, Long Islanders Uriah and his son Alonzo Knowles (both from the Simms area), took over after soil and crop infestation took a toll. They were able to purchase the land at one shilling per acre, utilizing some of it for farming and residing on the remaining portion. Both of them cared for William until he died in 1888, at the plantation's dock, supposedly from a self-inflicted wound to his throat, either because of a love-triangle with his spouse or economic hardship. Local folklore says that at low tide one can still see some of the bloodstains on what remains of the dock. Alonzo married a local woman and the plantation prospered under his stewardship and his father's direction, with a sisal crop and livestock. Alonzo was disinherited by his father when Alonzo married a woman that Uriah did not agree to after his first wife died. After Uriah died in the early part of the 20th century, his other four children inherited the property with equal shares. It ceased functioning as a plantation and was used for subsistence farming and as a residence. All plantation buildings were ruined during a 1927 hurricane, when some 200 persons from the Deadman's Cay area drowned. Various parcels of the property were passed on to subsequent family members until in the 1950's when most of it was sold to a German industrialist, Herbert Schnapka, who was connected with the Grand Bahama Oil Storage Project. A land development was established in 1963, and over time it evolved into today's ,Stella Maris Estate.'The land housing remains of the plantation is still in the Adderley family, said to be owned by three sisters, descendants of the original Adderley Plantation family, presently living in the New York area. The Adderley name is very prominent in the northern part of Long Island and across other Bahamian islands; major family names of its branches are Knowles, Gibson, Simms, Taylor, and Smith, their majorities living in the nearby towns of Burnt Ground, Glintons, Seymour's, Millerton's and Simms. Many of them have been working with today's Stella Maris Resort Club, Marina, and Estate, already into the second and third generation.