Miscellany - S.C.

South Carolina Miscellany

• New microfilm at the South Carolina Room in the Charleston County Library.
• South Carolina Will Transcripts, 1782-1868 (31 reels).
• Typed transcripts of wills from all except these counties: Beaufort, Chesterfield, Colleton, Georgetown, Lancaster, Lexington, Orangeburg.
• Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution in South Carolina (150 reels).
• Microfilms of the actual vouchers redeemed after the Revolutionary War for payment of goods and services used during the conflict. The vouchers are in alphabetical order by last name of voucher holder.
• The Confederate Historian (6 reels)
• Two reels contain 2 period lists of CSA deceased. The remainder of the reels offers a roster of SC's CSA troops, in order by unit type (ex: artillery) Memorials of the 17th and 18th Century SC Land Titles (14 reels)
• Records of land changing hands in SC from the 1670's up till 1719. Lots of records are extremely detailed, with many previous transfers of property listed in a single memorial.
• "The Charleston American" newspaper (35 reels) From Aug. 24, 1916 to Sept. 29, 1923. Local liberal paper started by John P. Grace largely to express his political views, thus many debates were fought out between this paper and The News and Courier.
• Misc. Negro Newspapers (5 reels) Late 1800's, early 1900's. Papers from 27 states and from Washington, DC, are included. No publication is represented in its entirety, but there is great information here on African-American life at the time.
• The SC papers include:
  • African American Citizen Chas. Jan 17,1900
  • Charleston Advocate Chas. May 11,1867
  • Free Press Chas. April 5, 18,1868
  • Georgetown Planet Gtown. May 31,1873
  • Missionary Record Chas. July 5,1873
  • People's Recorder Cola/Union. Jan 13, 27,1900
  • Rock Hill Messenger RockH. Jan 26,1900
  • SC Leader Chas. 7 ranging between Oct 7,1865 to May 12,1866
  • SC Dept of Archives and History Combined Alphabetical Index (19 reels) Personal and place names indexed from 30 series of early SC records at the SC State Archives, helpful in ordering films from SC Dept of Archives and History.
  • Special Schedules of the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Census (21 reels)
  • Agriculture, Industry, Mortality ('50 and '60 includes slaves), Social Statistics Schedules (all but 1880 are # of schools, churches, etc. 1880's is "Defective, Dependent, Delinquent", listing anyone considered to fit into one of these categories.)
  • Records of the British Record Office Relating to the SC, 1163-1782 (12 reels)
  • Full transcripts of papers in the BR Office involving SC. 3 part index on roll one.
• Minute Books of Circuit and District Courts for SC, 1789-1849 (5 reels).
• Court proceedings of the admiralty, bankruptcy, and criminal courts.
• Duties on Trade at Charleston, 1784-1789 (1 reel). This source contains a record of the goods that arrived or departed the port of Charleston during the stated time.
• These newspapers are now held by the SCR:
  • Deutsche Zeitung (German lang.) Chas. 1853-1917
  • Investigator Sept 1812-Dec 1813
  • Southern Patriot 1818-1849
  • World and Sunday Budget (not complete collection) 1888-1891