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United States Georgia Richmond County

County Courthouse

Richmond County Courthouse
530 Green Street
Augusta, GA 30911-0001
Phone: 760.821.2460 

Clerk Superior Court has land records from 1778
and court records; Probate Court has marriage
and probate records^[1]

History

Parent County

1777--Richmond County was created 5 February 1777 from St. Paul Parish. County seat:  Augusta ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Aiken County, South Carolina
• Burke
• Columbia
• Edgefield County, South Carolina
• Jefferson
• McDuffie

Resources

Cemeteries

Richmond County, Georgia Lists at Find a Grave

Church

LDS Ward and Branch Records

• Augusta

Court 

  Teachers Employed from 1873 to 1881 in Richmond County Georgia Pioneers

Land

Local Histories

• Augusta. Augusta, Ga.: Tidwell Print. Supply Co., 1938. Digital version at Ancestry ($). See also Ancestry ($).
  

• Clark, Walter A. A Lost Arcadia, or, The Story of My Old Community. Augusta, Ga.: Chronicle Job Print., 1909. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Dellquest, Augustus Wilfrid. Historic Augusta: A Brief Description of the Monuments and Places of Historical Interest in and around Augusta, Ga. Augusta, Ga.: A.W. Dellquest Book Co., 1917. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

• Jones, Charles Colcock. Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia: From Its Settlement in 1735 to the Close of the Eighteenth Century. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1890. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  

Maps

Marriages

  1885-1886 Marriages from old Newspapers Georgia Pioneers

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Richmond County for European settlers included:^[3]

• Savannah River pre-historic
• Occaneechi Path pre-historic
• Lower Creek Trading Path pre-historic
• Cisca and St. Augustine Trail (or Nickajack Trail) pre-historic
• Fort Moore-Charleston Trail about 1716
• Fall Line Road about 1735
• Augusta-Savannah Trail 1739
• Great Valley Road (south fork) 1740s
• Augusta-St. Augustine Trail
• Augusta and Cherokee Trail about 1777

Military

Newspapers

Probate 

• Wills, Book A, 1777-1798 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Wills, 1798-1810 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Wills, 1810-1829 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Wills, 1839-1844 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Wills, 1845-1853 (digital images) Georgia Pioneers
• Index to Wills 1777-1958 Georgia Pioneers

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries 

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Richmond County, Georgia Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Georgia Pioneers Georgia Pioneers

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Richmond County, Georgia. Page 159 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. (FHL Book 973 D27e 2002) WorldCat entry., and William E. Myer, Indian Trails of the Southeast. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the early Colonial Period" (1923). (FHL Book 970.1 M992i) WorldCat entry.