District 96, South Carolina

Date: 29 Jul 1769 to 31 Dec 1799
Location: [unknown]

Biography

Ninety-Six District was created on 29 July 1769 as the most western of the seven original districts. Its boundaries included the current Abbeville, McCormick, Edgefield, Saluda, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, and Spartanburg counties; much of Cherokee and Newberry counties; and small parts of Aiken and Greenville Counties. The lands further west were Cherokee Indian lands; and Tryon County, North Carolina infringed on much of its northern boundaries through the 1770s due to poor surveying.

The judicial capital town was Ninety Six, South Carolina; located at 34°10′24″N 82°1′18″W

Read about District 96 in the Revolutionary War

CHAOS IN THE BACKCOUNTRY: BATTLE OF NINETY SIX

1775-84 MAP

District 96

1885 Map

Districts 1785.

1786-89 Map District 96

1786-89 Dist.96

Sources

• Wikipedia District 96
• South Carolina Jury Lists for the Ninety-Six Judicial District - 1779
• 1779 Census of District 96, SC
• Names of First Colonist in SC

• Gentry Journal contains history of District 96

• Slavery on the Move"'
• "Stephen Jackson of Anson Co., North Carolina and Early Craven Co., Cheraw District and Chesterfield Co., South Carolina" by Bob Mitchell, Janie Jackson Kimble