Fairfield County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court, 1785-1799


Book Description

By: Brent Holcom, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2018, 198 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-212-0. Fairfield was one of the counties formed from the Camden District in 1785. It is surrounded by the counties of: Chester, Kershaw, Newberry, and Union. Part of this county was taken in 1791 to form Kershaw County. These minutes contain lists of deed recorded, wills, and estates probated, road juries, petit and grand juries, tavern licenses issued and small court cases.







Spartanburgh [sic] County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court, 1785-1799


Book Description

By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2017, 330 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-175-2. This volume contains abstracts of the county court minutes for an important up-country county. Spartanburg County included a large portion of present Cherokee County, S.C. and was bordered by Greenville Laurens, and Union Counties, S.C. and Rutherford County, North Carolina. The border changes between Spartanburg, Greenville, and Union counties make it an important tool for researching those counties as well. These minutes contain lists of deed recorded, wills, and estates probated, road juries, petit and grand juries, tavern licenses issued and small court cases.




Union County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court, 1785-1799


Book Description

Union was one of the counties formed from Ninety-Six District in 1785. This volume contains lists of deeds and probate records, minor court cases, bastardy cases, jury lists, etc. Revolutionary War veterans are found here, as well as early settlers from Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.




Kershaw County, South Carolina Minutes of the County Court, 1791-1799


Book Description

Kershaw County was formed in 1791 from the counties of Fairfield, Lancaster and Richland. Therefore, prior to 1791, the county records of those counties should be researched for persons who appear in the county court minutes herein. These records are typi




Marlborough County, South Carolina Minutes of the County Court, 1785-1799, and Minutes of the Court of Ordinary, 1791-1821


Book Description

By: Brent Holcom, Pub. 1982, Reprinted 2018, 152 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-298-8. Marlboro county was created in 1785 and is located in the historic area know as the Pee Dee region. This is the first book of legal records to be published from this county. These records contain lists of deeds, wills, and administrations recorded tavern licenses, bastardy cases, road commissioners, etc... It is analogous to the Virginia Order Books which most genealogists are familiar with.







Winton (Barnwell) County, South Carolina Minutes of County Court and Will


Book Description

Lewisburg, Orange, Lexington, and Winton Counties were formed in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, in 1785. Winton County was renamed Barnwell County in 1868. Winton County "is the only county of Orangeburg District which has eighteenth century records extant. We have Winton County Court Minutes, 1786-1791, and deeds for the same period, with the wills beginning in 1787, when the circuit court districts ceased that function...This volume contains a transcription of the court minute book, which includes a tax list for the year 1787, and abstracts of the instruments in Will Book 1. The original loose wills and estate papers for the period 1787-1791 have not survived. They probably perished with the Orangeburg District records in 1865." A full name index adds to the value of this work.







Edgefield County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court, 1785-1795


Book Description

By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2004, 204 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-158-2. These court minutes are the earliest extant records from this crucial South Carolina county. Many persons left Edgefield and migrated across the Savannah River into Georgia and other states west. In these records are listings of more than 175 early deeds which cannot now be located! This makes these probably the MOST VALUABLE court minutes in all of South Carolina. Also Edgefield was one of the largest counties in South Carolina at the time, comprising all or part of the present counties of Edgefield, Saluda, Aiken, Greenwood, and McCormick.