St. Pauls Parish, South Carolina

United States South Carolina  St. Paul's Parish

History
St. Paul's Parish has served Charleston and Colleton counties.

Parish Boundaries

 * Borders St. Andrews, St. Bartholomew's, St. George, and St. John's Colleton parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

Research Guides

 * South Carolina Archives Summary Guide: St. Paul's Parish, available online, courtesy: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Cemetery
More than 1000 of the cemetery's graves are described at Find A Grave. Includes transcripts and select photographs.

Parish History
For an early history of the parish, see Chapter 19, St. Paul's Parish, pages 351-359, in:


 * Dalcho, Frederick. An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina from the First Settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution; with Notices of the Present State of the Church in Each Parish and Some Account of the Early Civil History of Carolina, Never Before Published. Charleston: E. Thayer, 1820. ; digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive.


 * Constitutional Form of Government and By-laws of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Saint Paul's, Radcliffeboro', Charleston, S.C. Charleston, S.C.: Courier Book and Job Presses, 1870. Digital version at Google Books.

Taxation

 * [1732] "Assessment on Edisto Island in St. Paul's Parish," April 20, 1732, South Carolina Miscellany, New York Public Library.
 * [1785] St. Paul's Parish Tax Returns, 1785, South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 1977); Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 1977).

Websites

 * St. Paul's, Stono / St. Paul's Churchyard, The Historical Markers Database