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1790 Census: South Carolina CDSouth Carolina Genealogy & History Books: General Interest:
Marylanders to Carolina: Migration of Marylanders to North Carolina and South Carolina Prior to 1800
A Key to Southern Pedigrees: Being a Comprehensive Guide to the Colonial Ancestry of Families the States of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and AlabamaThe Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, 1865-1872
Marriage and Death Notices from the Pendleton, South Carolina Messenger: 1807 to 1851
A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records
North and South Carolina Marriage Records from the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War
"Almost 7,500 marriages are listed, the arrangement being alphabetical by surname, and this includes the maiden names of the brides. For each is given the full date and the place where the wedding took place. "South Carolina, a Guide for Genealogists
Migration to South Carolina: Movement from New England and Mid-Atlantic States, 1850 Census
South Carolina 1860 Agricultural Census
Local and Family History in South Carolina: A Bibliography
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Generations of Lawyers: A History of the South Carolina Bar
South Carolina Silversmiths: 1690-1860
Marriage and Death Notices from the Up-Country of South Carolina as Taken from Greenville Newspapers, 1826-1863 Men Of Mark In South Carolina: Ideals of American Life; a Collection of Biographies of Leading Men of the StateMarriage and Death Notices from the Charleston Observer, 1827-1845
Irish Found in South Carolina--1850 Census
History of the Hibernian Society of Charleston, South Carolina 1799-1981
Some Historic Families of Mid-South Carolina
History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina
This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston
Early Pee Dee SettlersMinutes of the Vestry of St. Helena's Parish, South Carolina, 1726-1812
Religion and Politics in Colonial South CarolinaThe Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, 1865-1872
History of Old Pendleton District with a Genealogy of the Leading Families of the District
The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870
Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette, 1732 - 1775Marriage Notices in the South Carolina Gazette & Its Successors, 1732-1801
Marriage, Death, and Estate Notices from Georgetown, S.C. Newspapers, 1791-1861
Hurrah for Hampton! Black Red Shirts in South Carolina During Reconstruction
The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773
Index to the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
A Genealogical Collection of South Carolina Wills and Records
The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina
Some South Carolina Genealogical Records
South Carolina Deed Abstracts: 1773-1778
Marriage Notices in the Charleston Courier, 1803-1808Marriage and Death Notices from the (Charleston) Times, 1800-1821
South Carolina Gazette: Genealogical Abstracts, 1732-1735Marriage and Death Notices From Baptist Newspapers of South Carolina, 1835-1865
Carolina Families: A Bibliography of Books about North and South Carolina Families
South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799Supplement to South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1820
South Carolina Naturalizations, 1783-1850Quakers in South Carolina: Wateree and Bush River, Cane Creek, Piney Grove, and Charleston Meetings
The Salzburg Lutheran Expulsion & Its Impact
Planters, Pirates and Patriots Historical Tales From the South Carolina Grand Strand
Dictionary of South Carolina Biography
Historic Courthouses of South Carolina: Abbeville, Charleston, Colleton County, Kershaw County
Biographical Sketches of the Bench & Bar of South Carolina
Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823: Indian, Spanish and Other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina
The Jury Lists of South Carolina, 1778-1779
Chronicles of St. Marks Parish, Santee Circuit, and Williamsburg Township, South Carolina, 1731-1885
Genealogical Abstracts From the Carolina Spartan, 1866-1872South Carolina in the Mexican War: A History of the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, 1846-1917
South Carolina Genealogical Research
Research Materials in South Carolina: A Guide
Index to the 1800 Census of South CarolinaAbstracts of the Wills of the State of South Carolina 1740-1760
Indexes to the County Wills of South CarolinaScotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772
Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830
Rambles in the Pee Dee Basin, South CarolinaHeads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: South Carolina
South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and Other Ethnic Connections: Beginning in 1670
South Carolina Folks & Families
A Genealogical History of the POOLE, LANGSTON & MASON Families and Kindred Lines of Upper South CarolinaSome ROGERS, DUCKWORTH and WELBORN Families With Roots in North and South Carolina
Genealogy of the McWILLIE and CUNNINGHAM Families, With Addition of a New Name Index [South Carolina; Camden, Liberty Hill and Surrounding Areas of Kershaw County, Lancaster County]
Research and Remembrances of YOUNGBLOOD, MARTIN, PERRY, MANN, KELLEY, McKINNEY, McWHORTER
Notes on the ALEXANDER Family of South Carolina and Georgia, 1651-1954
The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. ANDREWS, of Sumter, South Carolina. Extending Over a Period of 97 Years. Replete With Startling Situations and Interesting Incidents. Together With Reminiscences of the War of 1812, and the Recent "Unpleasantness" Between the North and South...
Let Us Meet in Heaven: The Civil War Letters of James Michael BARR, 5th South Carolina Cavalry
A BAXTER Family from South Carolina: Scotch Irish Pioneers from UlsterPioneering With the BEVILLE and Related Families in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
History of the BRASINGTON Family in the United States of America
Original Civil War-Era Letter to South Carolina Soldier Abba BROWN
From the seller: "Hand-penned letter from George Brown & his wife to son Abba, dated October 16th, (18)64, Williamston. Written on 8 x 10 off-white stock and folded three times (no envelope). "My Dear Child/It has now been three weeks since we have heard a word from you/I have written every few days but still get no answer, but I know that the fault is not in you, for I know that you have written but we never get those letters. " Text occupies both full sides, with the mother imploring the son to try to retrieve a winter coat she has for him. Second half of rear has father apologizing for not sending him more money, and "I have visited Wit's place on Snake River/there is plenty of land for all our hands to work..." Item is in very good shape, with a crescent-shaped burn mark lower half of left margin."The Family Heritage Book, the Family Heritage of the BYFIELD Family, Charleston, South Carolina
Jacob CLARK of Abbeville, South Carolina and Some of His DescendantsDescendants of William CUNNINGHAM of Fauquier Co., Virginia and Greenville, Co., South Carolina
A Place in History: The DAVANT Family
John Horry DENT: South Carolina Aristocrat on the Alabama Frontier
The Family History of James ELLIOTT (1773-1865) of Winnsboro, South Carolina and His Descendants
Annals of the FOWLER Family, with Branches in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, California and TexasChristopher GADSDEN and the American Revolution
The GEE Family of Union County, South CarolinaA History of the GLEN Family of South Carolina and Georgia
The HAMMONDs of Redcliffe
Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping collection of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a way of life that is gone forever as it provides fascinating insights into the reactions of the participants to disaster on the battlefield and on the homefront and into the agony of an eminent plantation family that had to adjust as best it could to a new social order. More than just the story of one family, the book casts in high relief the whole fabric of society: how all people worked and wept, married and mourned, lived and died.The HARRISONs of Andersonville, South Carolina
HAYNSWORTH - FURMAN and Allied Families: Including Ancestry and Descendants of Sarah Morse HAYNSWORTHHILL & HILL - MOBERLY Connections of Fairfield County, South Carolina
The HOLLY - HOLLEY Family: Early Barnwell & Edgefield Districts, South Carolina
Colonel Joseph HOWE, York County, South Carolina. His Descendants and His Brothers
A Sketch of Abraham HUDSON & Descendants
The HUTCHINSON Family of Laurens County, South Carolina and Descendants
Samuel JONES Family of Kershaw County, South Carolina
Charles KILGORE of King's Mountain: A New History of the KILGORE Family
Leopold A. KLAUBER: His Forebears and Descendants
Bazile LANNEAU of Charleston, 1746-1833
My Neck of the Woods: The LEWIS Families of Southeastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina - With CD Containing Web-Style DataWilliam LEWIS of Horry County, South Carolina
A Documented History of The LONG Family: Switzerland to South Carolina, 1578-1956, Including Allied FamiliesThe LOWNDES Family of South Carolina
Descendants of James Boyd MAGILL: 1799-1880, Emigrant from Ireland to Chester County, South Carolina
Genealogy of William McELWEE II of Clark's Fork of Bullock's Creek, York County, South Carolina
Fifty Years as a Low Country Witch Doctor
The Huguenot MILLERS: A Family History
McTEER MemoirJohn Clarence Calhoun MILLER Family
The History and Genealogy of the Robert and Rachael PAGE Family, c1750-1827: From Goochland County, Virginia, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina: Period of Coverage, c1750-c1985A World Turned Upside Down: The PALMERs of South Santee, 1818-1881
Nathaniel PARTRIDGE of Charles Town, South Carolina and His Descendants: Three Centuries of an Anglo-American Family
Family History, John PENDERGRASS of Bute County, North Carolina and Lancaster County, South Carolina
The Honorable Thomas Chiles PERRIN of Abbeville, South Carolina: Forebears and Descendants
REEB Roots in Europe and America
Descendants of Wiley REEVES of York County, South Carolina, and Fayette and Spalding Counties, Georgia
A history of a branch of the Reeb/Reap/Reape/Rape family which emigrated from Northern Alsace in the mid-18th century to York County, Pennsylvania, to Rowan County and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, and to Lancaster County, South Carolina.David RUSH and His Descendants - And Stories of The Community
The Genealogy of the SHINGLER Family of South Carolina
So Many Interesting Tales and History of the SMITHs
STINGLEYs: Then and Now an Early South Carolina Family Later in Mississippi and Arkansas 1750-1982
John STUBBS, 1718-1788 of Williamsburg, South Carolina and His Descendants
Ancestors and Descendants of Hancock D. SUDDATH and Jemima Whaley ETHEREDGE
TEMPLETON Family HistoryPoems of Henry TIMROD with Memoir and Portrait
Genealogy of Isaac WEST, of Greenville County, South Carolina
Hidden Glory: The Life and Times of Hampton Plantation, Legend of the South Santee
South Carolina Patriots: Military History
Civil War-Era Letter to South Carolina Soldier Abba BROWN
From the seller: "Hand-penned letter from George Brown & his wife to son Abba, dated October 16th, (18)64, Williamston. Written on 8 x 10 off-white stock and folded three times (no envelope). "My Dear Child/It has now been three weeks since we have heard a word from you/I have written every few days but still get no answer, but I know that the fault is not in you, for I know that you have written but we never get those letters. " Text occupies both full sides, with the mother imploring the son to try to retrieve a winter coat she has for him. Second half of rear has father apologizing for not sending him more money, and "I have visited Wit's place on Snake River/there is plenty of land for all our hands to work..." Item is in very good shape, with a crescent-shaped burn mark lower half of left margin.""Him on the One Side and Me on the Other:" The Civil War Letters of Alexander CAMPBELL, 79th NY Infantry Regt. and James CAMPBELL, 1st South Carolina Battalion Nothing But Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas
Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion
A History of the Third South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730
South Carolina in the Mexican War: A History of the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, 1846-1917
Lowcountry Families in World War II: A Memorial
Revolutionary Claims Filed in South Carolina Between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786
Lancaster County, South Carolina and the Great War
1890 Census - South Carolina Union Veterans & Veteran Widows (Entire State)
Christopher GADSDEN and the American Revolution
Siege Train: the Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston
Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War
Let Us Meet in Heaven: The Civil War Letters of James Michael BARR, 5th South Carolina Cavalry
Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940
Original Daily life in the army and concerns for the home front during the Civil War...
by Henry HILL. From the seller: "...as recorded in an archive of 90 autograph letters from the field, virtually all to his wife in Colleton District, South Carolina, all signed, 26 November 1861 to 13 February 1865; accompanied by 10 other items, a pre-war letter from Hill to his wife, several manuscript documents relating to Hill's position in his church after the war, several receipts, etc. Hill, owner of a farm in the Colleton District, South Carolina, between Charleston and Savannah, was mustered into service in Captain Wheeler Smith's Company, 1st South Carolina Mounted Militia, on 12 November 1861 and was discharged with the rest of the company on 31 January 1862. He enlisted for Confederate service on 12 March 1862, joining Company C, 17th Battalion South Carolina Cavalry; this company, still commanded by Smith, became Company C, 5th South Carolina Cavalry on 18 January 1863, and was variously stationed at Green Pond, James Island, and Charleston, South Carolina, until April 1864 when the regiment was sent to Virginia. During 1864, it participated in numerous engagements around Richmond and Petersburg, including the Battle of Trevilian Station in June 1864, the largest all-cavalry battle of the war. The regiment returned to South Carolina, with Wade Hampton, in January 1865, thereafter retreating across the Carolinas in the face of Sherman's army, before surrendering with Johnston at Durham Station, North Carolina, 27 April 1865. Hill's letters to his wife, almost all expressing concern for her well-being and that of their children, emphasize his worries over the state of his farm and various debts, offer instructions on specific activities related to their crops, describe his unit's various bivouac areas, fortifications, and plans for movements, provide news of camp life and of other soldiers from their neighborhood, specific descriptions of battle and other war activities, and rumor and innuendo from other areas of political and military actions, all framed within an earnest, religious prose. Samples from the letters include: "The Yankeys landed at Pocataligo Wednesday and gave our men a small fite but we whopped them off 40 of them dead on the field which our solider stripped stark naked they had about 5000 strong and Col. Walker only had 800 men we lost 12 artillery horses" (24 October 1862). "Don't listen to anything you hear about giving up this part of the country. It is all lies." (Camp Jeffords, 29 October 1862). "I will write to Ben Stokes and get him to get some sort of negro to stay with you" (Camp Morgan, 17 April 1863). "I went out today to see a man shot which was a terrible scene, It was witnessed by 2 or 3 thousand soldiers and lots of spectators to look on. He was shot for joining companies and running off and going into other companies as a substitute. He was marched around the square with 2 bands playing . Then the priest prayed with him. Then he knelt down on his coffin and was shot dead. Six bullets put though him" (Camp Charleston, 19 May 1863). "We took 15 negra soldiers, some of them with sergeant stripes on. There is a good many of that kind among the Yankeys on this island now Capt. Edwards got in contact with a negro soldier. The negro shot at Lt. Danelen and missed him. Edwards charged the negro on his horse. Edwards chopped at hime with his sword. The negro defended the licks off by he hit him one lick with the sweord and dropped him down. Edwards went to stick him with the sword bu the negro caught the blade and pushed it off the negro got up and put his bayonet on his gun and made at the Capt. The Capt. Shot him with five balls before he killed him. That sassy rascal would not surrender until he was killed" (James Island, 17 July 1863). "It is reported by the Yankey prisoners that Grant is dead. If it is so we will rest awhile. General Early is shelling Washington, they say I rode my horse 65 days steady and sometimes all night, and sometimes 48 hours without a mouthful of anything to eat at all I sent a Sharps rifle by Mr. Thomason it is a Yankey gun. I killed the man and I want to keep his gun in memory of him" (19 July 1864). "We have had 2 or 3 pretty hard fights in the last 5 days. We lost one man in our company, Capt. Marvin, and several out of the 5th. We captured some 5000 prisoners, 16 pieces of cannon, and about 514 horse wagon loads of small arms."Original Handwritten Manuscript Autograph Signature of C. K. STRIBLING, Civil War Naval Officer Born in Pendleton, South Carolina
Original Civil War-Era Letter to South Carolina Soldier Abba BROWN
From the seller: "Fine. 64mo-up to 3" tall. Signed. Autograph Autograph signature, clipped and mounted of C. K. STRIBLING- naval officer, born in Pendleton, South Carolina, 22 September, 1796; died in Martinsburg, West Virginia, 17 January, 1880. He entered the navy as a midshipman, 18 June, 1812, and served in the frigate "Mohawk" on Lake Ontario in 1815, where he participated in the blockade of Kingston. He was commissioned lieutenant, 1 April, 1818. cruised on the Brazil station in 1819-20, and then in the West Indies suppressing piracy. He commanded the sloop " Peacock" in the East Indies in 1835-37, and was on leave for two years after his return. He was commissioned commander, 24 January, 1840, and in 1842-44 had the sloop "Cyane" and frigate " United States" successively on the Pacific station. For the next two years he had command of the receiving-ship at Norfolk, and he then went out as fleet-captain in command of the ship-of-the-line " Ohio, " of the Pacific squadron, during the latter part of the Mexican war, returning to New York in April, 1850. He was superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis in 1850-'3, was commissioned captain, 1 August, 1853, and commanded the steam sloop " San Jacinto" on special service in 1854-55. He was commandant of the Pensacola navy-yard 1857-59, and served as flag-officer in command of the East India squadron in 1859-61. When the civil war opened he returned home, and, notwithstanding the secession of his native state, adhered to the Union. He served on the board to regulate the compensation of government officers in 1861, and on the light-house board in 1862. By operation of law he was placed on the retired list in December, 1861, but he continued to render valuable service in command of the navy-yard at Philadelphia in 1862-64, and from February till July, 1865, as commander-in-chief of the Eastern Gulf blockading squadron; after which he was a member of the light-house board until 1872. He was commissioned commodore on the retired list, 16 July, 1862, and rear-admiral, 25..."
From the seller: "Hand-penned letter from George Brown & his wife to son Abba, dated October 16th, (18)64, Williamston. Written on 8 x 10 off-white stock and folded three times (no envelope). "My Dear Child/It has now been three weeks since we have heard a word from you/I have written every few days but still get no answer, but I know that the fault is not in you, for I know that you have written but we never get those letters. " Text occupies both full sides, with the mother imploring the son to try to retrieve a winter coat she has for him. Second half of rear has father apologizing for not sending him more money, and "I have visited Wit's place on Snake River/there is plenty of land for all our hands to work..." Item is in very good shape, with a crescent-shaped burn mark lower half of left margin."Contemporary Artists of South Carolina
A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770
A Place Called St. John's: The Story of John's, Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah, and Seabrook Islands of South Carolina
South Carolina's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes
Country Cookbook Sponsored By the Saluda County, South Carolina Shrinettes
Relishing Recipes from Rural Richland
Greetings from Charleston: A Pictorial Postcard History of Charleston, South CarolinaColumbia, South Carolina: a Postcard History
South Carolina Postcards: Sumter CountyGeorgetown & the Waccamaw Neck: In Vintage Postcards (Postcard History Series)
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