Cheraw District, South Carolina Genealogy

United StatesSouth CarolinaCheraw District

History
In 1768 South Carolina created seven court districts including [Cheraw_District,_South_Carolina|Cheraw District]].

For documents of people who lived in this area from 1768 to 1800, look in:


 * St. Mark's Parish records since 1757
 * St. David's Parish records since 1768
 * papers filed in the District Seat sometimes at Long Bluff now Society Hill, or sometimes District Seat at Cheraw (also known as Cheraw Hill, or Chatham)
 * papers filed in the early capital at Charleston, South Carolina

Boundary Changes
"Rotating Formation South Carolina County Boundary Maps" (1682-1987) may be viewed for free at the My South Carolina Genealogy website. The maps rely on AniMap 3.0 software.

Variant Spellings

 * Cheraws

African American

 * Heinegg, Paul. "'Other Free' Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census, by County," Free African Americans.com. [Includes free blacks in Cheraw District.]

Census
See Cheraws District, SC census assignments, including links to transcribed files [The USGenWeb Census Project®]

Genealogy

 * [Lee] Stonecypher, Thomas E. David Lee a Revolutionary Soldier from Cheraw District, S.C., and Bulloch Co., Ga. Albany, Ga.: T.E. Stonecypher, 2002. ; digital version at Family History Archives.

Local Histories

 * Gregg, Alexander. History of the Old Cheraws: Containing an Account of the Aborigines of the Pedee, the First White Settlements, Their Subsequent Progress, Civil Changes, the Struggle of the Revolution, and Growth of the Country Afterward; Extending from about A. D. 1730 to 1810, with Notices of Families and Sketches of Individuals. New York: Richardson and Company, 1867. 1967 reprint: ; ; digital versions at Family History Archives; Google Books; Internet Archive; World Vital Records ($); another World Vital Records ($) version.

Websites

 * Cheraws District, South Carolina, courtesy: Carolana.com. Includes history.