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US Southern Colonies Project|US Southern Colonies Sources and Resources Directory|Province of South Carolina History
See the table at US Southern Colonies Sources and Resources Directory for links to other US Southern Colonies pages relevant to South Carolina, the Carolinas and North Carolina, and to the other southern colonies (Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia), and project-wide pages, such as US Southern Colonies Reliable Sources.
- The purpose of this page is to provide background and resources relevant to colonial South Carolina. It is managed by the Province of South Carolina Team of the US Southern Colonies Project.
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Colony Origin/History
Pirates
Unlike the movies portrayal, Pirates helped the Colonial Economy. They did not bury their treasures, they spent and traded them. Pirates kept the Spanish so busy that the British were able to hold onto their Colonies.
Maps
Links checked 1/11/2023
- South Carolina Historic Maps
- Tracing the formation of counties, Maps from 1682 to present
- South Carolina Antique Map Collection
- Hargrett Rare Map Collection, Colonial America
- A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King
- Map of the British Empire in America
- An Annimated Map of the. Battle of Cowpens
- Transatlantic Slave Trade Map Database
- Maps of Africa and the Slave Trade
- Thomas Cooper Map Collection
Interactive Map of Counties and the Evolution
South Carolina and it's Counties. Scroll down to use this interactive map which shows the evolution of South Carolina counties through many years.
Government Structure
Original Structure
King Charles, in 1663, appointed eight English Noblemen from Virginia as the Lord Proprietors who were charged with affecting the settlement of Carolina.
The Eight Lords Proprietors governed Carolina until 1729 (see also Category:Lords Proprietors)
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670)
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602–1678)
- William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697)
- Sir George Carteret (c. 1610–1680)
- Sir William Berkeley (1605–1677)
- Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet (1608–1666)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683).
Evolution of Government Structure
- From 1729
Conflicts Within The Colony
- Battle of Sullivan's Island
- (1715-1717) Yamesee War
- (1718) Pirate Blackbeard blockaded Charles Town Harbor; took hostages for ransom; pirate Stede Bonnet captured, hanged in Charles Town
- (1719) Citizens of South Carolina rebel against Lords Proprietor, James Moore elected governor
- (1755) Battle of Great Cane Brake
- (1758 - 1761) Anglo Cherokee Wars
- (1765-1771) War of Regulation
- (1776) Attack on Fort Moultrie also known as Battle of Sullivan's Island
- (1780) British troops landed on John's Island, warships anchored within broadside range of Charles Town, Army crossed Ashley river and established line of breastworks; encircled civilian population; siege lasted 40 days; Charles Town surrendered to British
- (1780) Battle of King's Mountain
- (1781) Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
- (1781) Seige of Fort Watson
- (1781) Revolutionary leader, Col. Isaac Hayne, hanged by British outside Charles Town city limits; American forces retake most of South Carolina, advanced to within 15 miles of Charles Town
- (1781) Seige of Ninety-Six - Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene led 1,000 troops in a siege against the 550 Loyalists in the fortified village of Ninety Six, South Carolina
- (1781) Battle of Cowpens
- (1781) Battle of Guilford Courthouseu
- (1782) British Army defeated; left Charles Town
Settlers
- Albermarle, the First Settlement in 1670 unsuccessful - no traces of the settlement after one year
- The French Huguenot Church in Charleston, SC includes names of settlers back to 1670
Migrating From the Northern Colonies
By the 1750s the Piedmont region attracted numerous frontier families from the north, using the Great Wagon Road.
- Migration Patterns, VA, NC, SC
- Family Search: South Carolina Immigration and Emigration
- The Cherokee Path
- Historic Migration Routes from Virginia to South Carolina
- Migration Routes from Pennsylvania to Virginia
- Migration to South Carolina before the Revolution
- Cyndi's List, Migration Routes, Roads and Trails
- Immigration trends of German Settlers South from PA
- Scots Irish Settlers in the Royal Colony on South Carolina
Ships
ships links checked 1/11/2023
- Carolina List of Passengers
- Albemarle
- Port Royal
- Joseph and Ann
- Susannah
- Mary and Sarah
- South Carolina Ships' Lists, the ship Carolina
- Passengers to Carolinas 1700s
- Georgia Pioneers searchable ship records by port
- Compass Ships' Lists Inward Slave Manifests for the Port of New Orleans Roll 3, January-March 1822
- https://immigrantships.net/jacobite/susannah17160507.html
American Indians
- Cherokee Eagle Dance
- How to use the Dawes Rolls
- The Dawes Rolls, (Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory) 1898-1914
- List of the Native Tribes of South Carolina
- Catawba Tribe
- Muskogee (Creek) Tribe
- Cherokee Tribe
- Yuchi Tribe
- Edisto Tribe
- Natchez Kusso Tribe
- Eutaw Tribe
- Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnerville
- Pee Dee Nation of Beaver Creek
- National Indian Law Library Tracing your Genealogy National Indian Law Library, Tracing Your Roots
- First Nation Genealogy, Tracing Roots of American Indian and First. Nation Genealogy
- Dawes Index: Cherokee
- American Indian Slavery in Carolina
- GenWeb Cherokee Rolls, the first people of Tennessee
Indentured Servants
Slaves
- Rice Ready for Harvest
- Joshua Ward, Family Search Person Details Largest number of slaves owned in US History
- Journal of Joshua Ward Plantation
- Without Indenture: Index to White Slave Children
- Aquila: Documenting Runaway Slaves Project
- Mulatto Diaries
- The Gullah, Rice Slaves
- Sierra Leonean American
- Middleton Place, Slave Schedules
- Thomas Middleton Plantation book 1734-1813
- NPS: Sullivan's Island, the African American Ellis Island
- American Indian Slavery in Carolina
- Lawton Slave HolderSC
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1780-1820
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1820-1860
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1860-
- Slaves Named in Marion County Wills, 1798-1855
- Fort Rose, Carolina Slaves Brought to Florida
- Slaves, Plantation of James Joyner Smith
- The Hands of Hampton, Dlavery in a St. John Santee Rice Plantation has a list of slaves by name
- Compass Ships' Lists Inward Slave Manifests for the Port of New Orleans Roll 3, January-March 1822
Economic Resources and Information
- Economic Aspect of Tobacco during the Colonial Period, 1612-1776
- South Carolina Rice Plantations
- Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture, edited by Patricia M. Lambert
- Rice and Indigo Production in Colonial South Carolina
Research Resources
- A Key to Southern Pedigrees, being a comprehensive guide to the colonial ancestry of families in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Alabama - Crozier, William Armstrong, 1864-1913. On label on t.p.: Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, distributors
- 1779 Census, District 96
- Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upstate South Carolina by L.B.O. Landrum
- South Carolina Archives, Repositories and Special Collections Guide
- National Huguenot Society
- French Protestant Huguenot Church, Charleston, South Carolina
- Proprietary Records of South Carolina, Vol. 3, 1679 Abstracts of the Records of the Surveyor General
- Names of First Colonist of South Carolina
- The expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765 by Meriwether, Robert Lee, 1890-1958, Publication date 1940, Publisher Kingsport, Tenn., Southern publishers.
Revolutionary War
- Battle of Cowpens
- Southern Campaign, Pension Applications for Revolutionary War Soldiers
- Sources for the American Revolution, South Carolina Archives PDF
- The American Revolutionary War in South Carolina, Military Patriots, Captains
- The American Revolutionary War in South Carolina, Military Patriots, Sergeants
- American Revolution in South Carolina, Privates, Horsemen, Fifers, Drummers: Names Beginning with "C"
- American Revolution in South Carolina, Privates, Horsemen, Fifers, Drummers: Names Beginning with "S"
- Full text of "King's Mountain and its heroes : history of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the events which led to it"
- Clemson Univetsity: South Carolina Loyalists
- Revolutionary War in South CarolinaPDF
Cemeteries
- Charleston Cemetery
- French Huguenot Church Cemetery, Charleston, SC dates back to 1670
- Find A Grave, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston
- Old Waxhaw Presbyterian in Lancaster, SC
- Boiling Springs First Baptist Church Cemetery, Boiling Springs, SC from 1758
- Colonial Tombstones, Charleston
Slave Cemeteries
Note: Slave and free African Americans are typically both buried in the cemeteries listed below as freed men continued to work in the same area.
- Find A Grave, Slave Cemeteries
- South Carolina African American Cemeteries and Graveyards
- Drayton Hall Ashley River, SC dating from 1790
- McLeod Plantation Slave Cemetery South Carolina
- Find A Grave Middleton Place Plantation Slave Cemetery
- Blackstock Slave CemeteryFort Mill, SC
- Black Swamp Cemetery Beaufort, SC
- Archeologist Unearth 5000 Slave Graves on St. Helena
- Category Cemetery Formatting
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Ships bound for South Carolina Ship Wakefield, Liverpool, England To South Carolina, The Americas, 21 April 1716, A List of Eighty one Rebel Prisoners Shipd on board the Wakefield Captn. Thomas Beck Commander for South Carolina . https://immigrantships.net/jacobite/wakefield17160421.html Ship Susannah, Liverpool, England to South Carolina, the Americas, 7 May 1716; A List of the one hundred & four Rebel Prisoners Shipd (in order to be Transported) on board the Susannah Capt. Thos Bromall Commandr for South Carolina. https://immigrantships.net/jacobite/susannah17160507.html
Immigrantsships.net, Jacobite Rebellion Ships, Contributed by Hugh Tornabene https://immigrantships.net/jacobite/indexjacobite.html
It has transcribed list as well as original images.
I am going to move the resources to their state pages and try to free up some space on Carolina, find some older dating pics for Carolina and in general move things along but-
It is really hard to move stuff from my iPhone so this page is a mess until I get to the laptop.
Thanks!
Paula