Subject: South Carolina Begins: The Records of a Proprietary Colony 1663-1721
Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 02:13:32 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:15:00 -0500
From: Steve Coker
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Publications available from the South Carolina Department of Archives & History.
South Carolina Begins: The Records of a Proprietary Colony 1663-1721
Charles H. Lesser
530 pages. Illustrations/Bibliography/Indexes.
PH24 $43.00 postpaid
This thoroughly documented study contains detailed descriptions of most of South
Carolina's records before 1721. Chapter 4, which covers probate records, is of
special interest to genealogists. Many of South Carolina's earliest wills were
destroyed during the Civil War and in an earlier 1698 fire, but indexes to the
destroyed records survive and have allowed a sophisticated reconstruction of the
lost records. This chapter provides citations to probate-related records for
some 1,285 persons who died in the colony before 1721. Other chapters provide
guidance in the use of a wide array of other records as well as basic
institutional histories and short biographies of the figures who created and
kept the records.
South Carolina Department of Archives & History
P.O. Box 11669
1430 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29211
Tel: 803-734-8590
FAX: 803-734-8820
bassett@history.scdah.sc.edu
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Effective May 5, 1998, the agency's new address and phone number will be:
S.C. Dept. of Archives and History
8301 Parklane Rd.
Columbia, SC 29223
803-896-6100
For more information on the S.C. Archives or its move to the S.C. Archives and
History Center check http://www.scdah.sc.edu or call 803-734-8560.
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