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Carolina Nobility: The Lords Proprietors and the Landgrave Feudal System of the Colonial Era From A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary". AI Overview definition of Landgrave: Landgraves were a title of nobility given to local lead...
Governors of South Carolina This project collects the governors of South Carolina after declaring independence in 1776. At that time, the state chose to continue the prior numbering of governors from the colonial period, making the first governor numbered 31. Governors prior to 1776 should be added to Colonial Governors of South Carolina . 31st John Rutledge 32nd Rawlins Lowndes (31st) John...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dorchester County, South Carolina. Official Website Dorchester County is named for its first settlement area, which was established by Congregationalists in 1696. These settlers applied the name "Dorchester" after their last residence in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Dorchester was not established as a separate county until 1897. Howe...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Official Website Berkeley County was established in 1682. It was named after John and William Berkeley, co-owners of the Province of Carolina. It became part of the Charleston District in 1769. It did not exist as a District during most of the 19th century and generally was part of the Low Country cu...
This project is part of the State of South Carolina Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from California. You can add profiles for: People born in South Carolina People who lived in South Carolina People who died in South Carolina When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconee County, South Carolina. Official Website Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, the county was established in 1868 and was named after an historic Cherokee town and the word "Ae-quo-nee", meaning "land beside the water." Adjacent Counties Jackson County, North Carolina Transylvania County, North Carolin...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McCormick County, South Carolina. The county was formed in 1916 and was named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). Adjacent Counties Greenwood County Edgefield County Columbia County, Georgia Lincoln County, Georgia Elbert County, Georgia Abbeville County Towns & Communities Clarks Hill McCormick (Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hampton County, South Carolina. Official Website The county is named for Wade Hampton III, one of the country's leading slaveowners and a Lieutenant General for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. After the war, a leading proponent of the rose-tinted Lost Cause of the Confederacy interpretation of the war, he led the Rede...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jasper County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1912 and was named after Revolutionary War hero, Sergeant William Jasper. Adjacent Counties Hampton County Beaufort County Effingham County, Georgia Chatham County, Georgia Cities, Towns & Communities Coosawhatchie Gillisonville Grahamville ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Official Website From the early days of plantations, African slaves outnumbered the European minority in the colony. The plantations on the Sea Islands had large concentrations of slaves, and frequently limited interaction with whites. The islands were sites of the development of the Gullah culture ,...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Colleton County, South Carolina. Official Website The county is named after Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet, one of the eight Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina. In 1682, Colleton was created as one of the three original proprietary counties, located in the southwestern coastal portion of the new South Carolina Colony an...
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Clarendon County, South Carolina. Official Website Clarendon County was officially established in 1785, shortly after the American Revolutionary War, when the legislature divided Camden District into seven counties. One was Clarendon County. It was named after Edward Hyde, who was a Lord Proprietor and earl of Clarendon. During the American Re...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was created in 1769 and named for William III of England. At the time of European encounter, Siouan-speaking tribes, such as the Pee Dee, Cheraw and Catawba, inhabited the Piedmont area above the fall line. The Beaver Creek Indians, the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Bamberg County, South Carolina. Official Website Bamberg County, established in 1897 and named after a local resident, William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858), is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina . As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,311, making the rural county the fourth-least populous of any in South Car...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Barnwell County, South Carolina. Official Website The Barnwell District was created in 1797 (effective in 1800) from the southwestern portion of the Orangeburg District, along the Savannah River. It was named after John Barnwell , a local figure in the Revolutionary War . In 1868, under the South Carolina Constitution revised duri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Allendale County, South Carolina . Official Website Allendale County was formed in 1919, along the Savannah River. It is the location of the Topper Site, an archeological excavation providing possible evidence of a pre-Clovis culture. The site is near a source of chert on private land in Martin owned by Clariant Corporation, a Swiss...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Official Website Spartanburg County and its county seat, the city of Spartanburg, were named for the Spartan Regiment, a local militia regiment that fought in the American Revolutionary War. As Spartan County, it was formed in 1785 as a part of the Ninety-Six District. In 1791, it was renamed to S...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, South Carolina. Official Website This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples and by the historic Cherokee people before European encounter. When European traders and settlers entered the area, they used the existing Native American paths: called collectively the Trading Path. The Upper Road ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, South Carolina. Official Website Early Settlement The area that includes Union County was once controlled by the Cherokee Indians and they used it as a hunting ground. Up until recent years, one could find numerous arrowheads with little effort throughout the county. The first European settlers in Union County came ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lee County, South Carolina. Official Website Lee County was formed in 1902 and was named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In the folklore of Lee County, South Carolina, the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (also known as the Lizard Man of Lee County) is an entity said to inhabit the swampland of the region. First mentioned in t...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Sumter County, South Carolina. Official Website Sumter County was created from Clarendon, Claremont and Salem Counties as Sumter District in 1798, named after General Thomas Sumter, and became effective in 1800. When the home of Sumter District's clerk of records burnt in 1801, the formative records of the three predecessor countie...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, South Carolina. Official Website Calhoun County was home to the Congaree Tribe. During the American Revolutionary War, Calhoun County was home to the famous Siege of Fort Motte. Located in a rural upland area long devoted to cotton plantations, part of the Black Belt of the South, the county was formed in 1908 from ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived, or died in Lexington County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was chartered in 1785 and was named in commemoration of Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the Battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Calhoun County Richland County Orangeburg County Aiken County Saluda County Newberry ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Richland County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1785 as part of the large Camden District and was most likely named for its "rich land". The county seat and largest city is Columbia, which is also the state capital. In 1786 the state legislature decided to move the capital from Charleston to a more centr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kershaw County, South Carolina. Official Website Kershaw County was named for Col. Joseph Kershaw (1727–1791), an early settler considered as "the father of Camden". Originally part of Camden District, Kershaw County was formed in 1791. During the American Revolutionary War, the British occupied Camden from June 1780 to May 1781. F...