Recent Acquisitions
Recent Acquisitions
The Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGS welcomes gifts relating to genealogy and local history. Gifts can be designated charitable contributions and are eligible for income-tax deductions. New and used genealogical books, local history books, church histories, family histories, original family documents and pictures, copies of family documents and pictures, high school and college yearbooks, city directories, old telephone directories, microfilm and microfiche, etc. are examples of donations accepted. Monetary contributions may be designated in honor of or in memory of loved ones. An appropriate genealogical book will be purchased with the donation. Books may also be given in memory or in honor of loved ones. All donations and purchases mentioned above will be placed at the Darlington County Historical Commission on permanent loan. Please mail gifts to: Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGS, P.O. Box 175, Hartsville, SC 29551-0175.
In the fall of 2016 the ODDC SCGS merged its book collection with the book collection of the Darlington County Historical Commission (DCHC). Since that time, many books have been added to the DCHC collection by the ODDC SCGS. Below is a listing of the books added the last two years.
2024
South Carolina State University: A Black Land Grant College in Jim Crow American (Given in Memory of Renee Brown-Bryant)
Gullah Spirit, the Art of Jonathan Green (Given in Memory of Renee Brown-Bryant)
1982 Legislative Manuel, 104th General Assembly of South Carolina
2013 – 2020 Legislative Manuals, General Assembly of South Carolina
Admitted to the Asylum: Abstracts of Patient Treatment Records at the South Carolina State Hospital 1828 – 1880
Biographies and Pictures of Members of the Senate and House of Representatives and Officers, State of South Carolina, 1983 Session; 2003 – 2011
Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, 1670 – 1730, Tricentennial Series No. 3
North Hartsville Elementary School Yearbook, 2018 – 2019
North Hartsville Elementary School Yearbook, 2021 – 2022
Partisan War [The]: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780 – 1782, Tricentennial Booklet Series No. 2
Southern Social Register, 1952 – 1953
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 1902 – 2002: A Century of Christian Witness
2023
Black Carolinians: A History of Blacks in South Carolina from 1895 – 1968, by I.A. Newby, Tricentennial Series No. 6. (Given in Memory of Dr. Thelma Pugh Dawson)
1800 Census of Pendleton District, South Carolina
1827 Land Lottery of Georgia
1832 Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia
1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia
1900 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Abstracts of Georgia Colonial Conveyance Book G-1
Archives of Maryland, New Series: An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland, Governors, Legislators, and Other Principal Officers of Government, 1632 to 1990, Volume I
Authentic List of All Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia, Taken From Official State Records in the Surveyor – General Department Housed in the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia
Bank [The] of the State of South Carolina: A General and Political History, Tricentennial Series No. 2
Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution, Volume I The War in the North
Books and Articles on South Carolina History, Tricentennial Booklet No. 8
Calendar of the Tennessee and King’s Mountain Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts
Carolina Indian Frontier [The], Tricentennial Booklet No. 6
Charlotte County, Virginia 1816 – 1850, Marriage Bonds and Ministers’ Returns (with additions to marriages 1764 – 1815)
Clarke County (Athens) Georgia Newspaper Abstracts, 1808 – 1820, Volume I
Clarke County (Athens) Georgia Newspaper Abstracts, 1826 – 1829, Volume II
Colonial Georgia Genealogical Date 1748 – 1783
Complete Book of Emigrants 1700 – 1750
Confederate Nurse [A]: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860 – 1863
Cornwallis Papers [The]; the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in The Southern Theatre of the American Revolutionary War. (6 Volumes)
Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia 1746 - 1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816
Death Notices from Richmond, Virginia Newspapers 1841 – 1853
Delamar Transcripts: Transcriptions of Petitions to the General Assembly of North Carolina Relating to the Revolutionary War
Department of the South, Hilton Head Island in the Civil War
Dr. Karl Agre [The] Collection of Confederate States Postal History
Early Georgia Wills and Settlements of Estates, Wilkes County
Early Jefferson County, Georgia Newspaper Abstracts, 1799-1811
Early Virginia Marriages
Elizabeth and Ann Timothy: America’s First Female Journalists in Colonial and Revolutionary War Times
English Crown Grants in the Parishes St. David, St. Patrick, St. Thomas and St. Mary in Georgia, 1755 – 1775, Volumes I and II
First Census of Text 1829 – 1836 To Which are Added Texas Citizenship Lists, 1821 – 1845 and Other Early Records of the Republic of Texas
First Census of the United States 1790, Maryland
First Voyage [The] and Settlement at Charles Town, 1670 – 1680, Tricentennial Booklet No. 4
Folk Song in South Carolina, Tricentennial Booklet No. 9
Soldiers and Uniforms: South Carolina Military Affairs, 1670 – 1775, Tricentennial Booklet No. 10
Four Centuries & More
French Colonists and Exiles in the United States
Genealogical Deed Abstract Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Books 10 – 14
Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume I, Albridgton – Gerlache
Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume I, Adams – Clopton
Georgia Black Book: Morbid, Macabre, & Sometimes Disgusting Records of Genealogical Value, Volumes I and II,
Georgia Stray Wills 1733 – 1900
Georgia Will Directory, 1733 – 1860
Georgia Will Directory, 1861 – 1900
Georgians in the Revolution: At Kettle Creek (Wilkes County) and Burke County
Governor’s Mansion [The] of the Palmetto State
Historical Collections of Georgia
History of St. Mark’s Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia
History’s Greatest War
In the Name of God, Amen: Georgia Wills 1733 – 1860
Index to Georgia Wills
Index to the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes I, II, III
Index to West Virginia Estates Before 1866, Volumes I and II
Inheritance in Colonial Virginia
Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland
Lincoln’s Loyalists, Union Soldiers from the Confederacy
List of The Colonial Soldiers of Virginia
Marriage Notices From Richmond, Virginia Newspapers 1841 – 1853
Marriage Notices in Charleston Courier, 1803 – 1808
Marriages and Obituaries from the Macon Messenger, 1818-1865
Maryland Eastern Shore Vital Records, Book 2 1726 – 1750
Maryland Revolutionary Records
Middlesex County, Virginia Marriage Bonds and Minister Returns, 1740 – 1752
Migrations Based on Powers or Attorneys
Mississippi Court Records 1799 – 1835
Mississippi Index of Wills 1800 – 1900
Most [A] Important Epocha: The Coming of the Revolution in South Carolina, Tricentennial Booklet No. 5
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, Lineage Book IV, 1958 – 1966
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, Lineage Book V, 1966 – 1982
North Carolina Headrights: A List of Names, 1663 – 1744
North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes I, II, and III
North Carolina Land Grants Recorded in Greene County, Tennessee
Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Volumes I and II
Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign
Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas
Public Treasury [The] of Colonial South Carolina, Tricentennial Series No. 10
Quaker Records in Maryland
Quit Rents [The] of Virginia, 1704
Religion in Antebellum Kentucky
Scotch – Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772, (Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers)
Shenandoah: Early August County, Virginia
Side-Lights on Maryland History
Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia
South Carolinians in the Revolution With Service and Miscellaneous Data Also Abstracts of Wills, Laurens County (Ninety-six District) 1775 – 1855
Stormy Petrel: N.G. Gonzales and His State, Tricentennial Series No. 8
Story [The] of Sea Island Cotton
Survey of American Church Records, Volume I
Tennessee Genealogical Records: Records of Early Settlers From State and County Archives
They Went Thataway, Volume 2
They Went Thataway, Volume 3
Through Indian Eyes: The Untold Story of Native American Peoples
Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers, Volume I
Virginia Court System [The]: A Genealogist’s Guide to Early Courts (prior to 1851)
Virginia Marriage Records From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler’s Quarterly
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742
Virginia Vital Records From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Tyler’s Quarterly
Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632 – 1800
War of The Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series II, Volume 6, Prisoners of War, etc.
Where to Find the Records
Wilkes County (Washington), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1802, 1805 – 1809
Wilkes County (Washington), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1810 – 1815, Volume II
Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records, 1785 – 1805, Volumes One and Two
Wilkes County, Georgia Will Index 1777 – 1921