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This history presents Orangeburg County, South Carolina, from its early beginnings through the Revolutionary War. It reveals the settlers' struggles to set county boundaries, build churches and roads, and participate in the 1790 convention to establish the constitution for the state. Also transcribed here are the acts that created a court and judicial system for the state. The book's first chapter traces the settlement of each region within th...

In June of 1775 the first Provincial Congress of South Carolina appointed a Council of Safety to administer the affairs of the Province. At the same time it provided for the formation of three regiments of regular troops. Charged with the responsibility of defending the Province against British incursion, the Council of Safety was empowered to raise the three required regiments. This work is a collection of the papers of the First Council of S...

Somewhat concurrent with but mostly supplemental to Salley's Marriage Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette above, the marriages in this book give the name of the bride and groom, the exact date of the marriage, names of parents, place of residence, and sometimes the occupation of the groom, and refer to 1, 200 persons in all.

Sections of this work are devoted to the pioneers and early settlers in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, giving names of officers, names of members of the Committee of Correspondence, and full texts of orders and letters. Also included are transcriptions of births, marriages, and deaths from the celebrated Giessendanner records, from 1737 to 1761.

This consolidated volume, published originally by the Historical Commission of South Carolina, encompasses a number of the oldest and genealogically most important records of colonial South Carolina. Compiled by A. S. Salley, the commission secretary and a prolific editor of South Carolina source materials, this collection of land warrants consists of three separately indexed volumes referring to upwards of 5, 000 land warrants for the period ...

The records of the six regiments comprising the South Carolina Line are hopelessly scattered. Many are in the National Archives, others are in the hands of libraries and historical societies, others are in private hands, and still others have been irretrievably lost. Many of them, however, are in the possession of the South Carolina Historical Society, and these are published here in chronological order. The records-muster rolls, pay rolls, ro...