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South Carolina Research Outline |
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Table of Contents
Records Of The Family History Library
Family History Library Catalog
Archives And Libraries
Bible Records
Biography
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
Court Records
Directories
Emigration And Immigration
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Land And Property
Maps
Military Records
Native Races
Naturalization And Citizenship
Newspapers
Periodicals
Probate Records
Public Records
Taxation
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions
PUBLIC RECORDS Some records kept by town, county, and other officials can include helpful genealogical information. Most are at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and are thoroughly indexed.
Some of these records have been published, such as the Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, 1736-1754 (Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1951-; FHL book 975.7 N2a; fiche 6051246).
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History also has microfilms of all the surviving manuscripts in the British Public Record Office in London for colonial South Carolina, including correspondence, copies of laws and legislative journals, ship clearings in and out of Charleston, and records of the British occupation of Charleston during the American Revolution. Many of these records are on microfilm at the Family History Library (see FHL films 1294103-14). A guide to these records is Helen C. Carson, Records in the British Public Records Office Relating to South Carolina, 1663-1782 (Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1973; FHL book 975.7 A1 #55)
Quitrent payments The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has some tax lists for 1783 to 1799 for the low-country parishes. Lists for 1783 to 1786 were published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, beginning in volume 2. (See periodicals Section of this outline.)
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History also has an excellent collection of county tax lists beginning about 1865. The Family History Library has some county tax records on film, beginning with the late 1700s in some cases.
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TAXATION
(colonial land taxes) were due each year to the lords proprietor or the king. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has quitrents, receipts, and disbursements for 1733 to 1774. The quitrent lists for 1768 have been published and indexed in Mary Bondurant Warren, Citizens and Immigrants: South Carolina, 1768 (Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1980; FHL book 975.7 N28w 1994).
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