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Contents: I. PROBATE RECORDS, II. LAND RECORDS, III.
EQUITY RECORDS, IV. TAX RECORDS, V. COUNTY COURT MINUTES, VI.
MILITARY RECORDS, VII. MARRIAGE AND OTHER VITAL RECORDS, VIII.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION RECORDS, IX. CHURCH RECORDS, X.
CENSUS RECORDS, XI. NOTES ON COUNTY FORMATIONS AND RECORDS, XII.
THE BORDER PROBLEM WITH NORTH CAROLINA, XIII. ARCHIVES AND
LIBRARIES, XIV. THE ARCHIVES COM INDEX,
XV. PUBLISHED SOURCES, XVI. USING THE INTERNET.
St. David's parish covered the exact
same area as Cheraw District, the counties of Darlington,
Chesterfield, and Marlboro.
Columbia newspapers were regional and carried notices
from Richland, Fairfield, Newberry, and other counties. One
newspaper included in this work is the South Carolina Temperance
Advocate, which carried notices from all over South Carolina.
These are notices from newspapers of Spartanburg,
Laurens, Newberry, and Lexington newspapers.
This book contains a
transcription of the only official record to survive before 1865
for Orangeburg County.
Tryon County was formed in 1769 from the western portion of Mecklenburg County and abolished in 1779 to form Lincoln and Rutherford
Counties. Prior to the border survey of 1772, it included all or portions of the South Carolina counties of York, Chester, Union,
Spartanburg, Laurens, Greenville, and Newberry.
The single most important record for any North Carolina county is the minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Lists of deeds proved and recorded are found in the court minutes, as well as lists of wills proved or administrations on intestate estates taken out. The construction of roads and the road juries (sometimes called road gangs) who were to lay out and maintain the roads are spelled out in these records. Small court cases (usually over debt), depositions, jury lists, tax officials' names with their districts, tavern licenses and tavern rates, and care of the poor of the county are among the many kinds of records included in the court minutes.
The petitions for land found in the Council Journals are probably
the best source for immigration and migration in the Colonial
period. Many petitions indicate that the petitioners are foreign
protestants who came on the encouragement given by South Carolina.
Some petitions indicate migration to South Carolina from other
provinces; some indicate slave holdings of low-country planters;
still others give information on persons who died before their land
titles could be perfected and the heirs are named. In the period
covered in this volume, the first petitions for land in the newly
established townships and other areas are to be found: Orangeburg,
Amelia, Williamsburg, Purrysburg, the Welch Tract, Saxa Gotha,
Kingston, Fredericksburg, Queensboro, etc. All of the petitions are
properly referenced so that the reader may obtain copies of the
appropriate pages from the original journals if desired.
The year of 1996 marked the 275th anniversary of the establishment
of Prince George Winyah Parish. Since vital records in South
Carolina are largely a twentieth century phenomenon, the
publication of any record containing records of births, marriages,
and deaths prior to that time is important. The Prince George
Winyah registers are even more important because of the loss of
records in Georgetown District for the antebellum period. As we
approach the twenty-first century, we are realizing that nineteenth
century and early twentieth century records are gaining importance.
The first known register of Prince George Winyah Parish begins in
1815 and ends in 1916. The second register, 1916-1936, is included
also in this volume. These registers contain records of baptisms,
burials, confirmations, marriages, and lists of communicants. The
burials of elderly persons in the first few decades of the first
register are for persons who were born in the colonial period. The
entries in these registers for slaves, negroes, and free persons of
color will be a boon to those interested in African-American
history and genealogy.
These volumes are a continuation of the abstracts prepared under
Clara Langley of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s
(published in four volumes by Southern Historical Press). Until
the establishment of county courts in South Carolina in 1785, all
deeds were recorded in Charleston. While the deeds in these deed
books (I-5 through Z-5) were recorded between 1783 and 1788, within
these deed books are instruments dating from a much earlier time,
some as early as 1703. After the border surveys between the two
Carolinas in 1764 and 1772, many lands formerly deemed to be in
North Carolina fell into South Carolina. For that reason some deeds
refer to lands granted by North Carolina, sometimes called "north
patents." In the period beginning in 1783 we find some deeds
recorded from the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates and the
Commissions of Confiscated Estates. Within the bodies of such deeds
are found the names of such persons whose land had been
confiscated, usually indicated as "lands formerly the property
of..." The names of these persons are not indicated in the deed
index, only the persons who purchased the land. Therefore, these
abstracts will be clues as to the disposition of lands of many
Loyalists.
Your Host at SCMAR, Mr. Brent Holcomb
