Granville (1708-1768) County, South Carolina Genealogy

United States  South Carolina  Granville (1708-1768) County History Not to be confused with the Granville County that existed 1785-1791. In 1708 one of the original three counties, Carteret County, was renamed Granville (1708-1768) County.&quot;A History of the Original Granville County&quot; in South Carolina - The Counties at http://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/granville_county_original.html (accessed 28 April 2011). See the south Savannah River side of the 1760 South Carolina map</a>. This early Granville County was never surveyed or properly laid out. Its boundaries were ambiguous. Its county government never became functional. Most records were kept at the parish level; none were kept at the county level. There was no county seat. There were no political connotations to the county's existence. In this case the term "county" had no meaning other than to describe an approximate geographical area. It was a county in name only.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="oGran" /> Granville (1708-1768) County was abolished in 1768. For documents of people who lived in this area at this time, look in parish</a> records, or for papers filed in Charleston, South Carolina</a>. Boundary Changes For animated maps illustrating South Carolina county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation South Carolina County Boundary Maps"</a> (1682-1987) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website. Resources Church <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/b/b1/Gotoarrow.png" _fck_mw_filename="Gotoarrow.png" alt="" /> See also St. Luke's Parish</a> <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/b/b1/Gotoarrow.png" _fck_mw_filename="Gotoarrow.png" alt="" /> See also St. Peter's Parish</a> Genealogy <ul><li>[Calhoun] Salley, A.S. "The Calhoun Family of South Carolina," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr. 1906):81-98; Vol. 7, No. 3 (Jul. 1906):153-169. Digital version at JSTOR</a>&#160;($). </li></ul> Military French and Indian War <ul><li>Weir, Robert M. "Muster Rolls of the South Carolina Granville and Colleton County Regiments of Militia, 1756," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Oct., 1969), pp. 226-239. Digital version at JSTOR</a> ($). </li></ul> Taxation Published abstracts <ul><li>[1768] Quit Rent Rolls.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Mary Bondurant Warren, Citizens and Immigrants--South Carolina, 1768 (Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1994). Quit Rent begins on page 255. <span class="fck_mw_template"> [Includes Granville County] </li></ul> Websites <ul><li>Granville County, South Carolina</a>, courtesy: Carolana.com</a>. </li></ul> References <span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template">

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