ABBEVILLE DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWSPAPER NOTICES OF LAND CASES AND SALES

1836-1872 by Lowry Ware, Ph.D.  Hard cover, 310 pages, indexed.
Price: $35.00 plus $3.50 mailing for first book, $1.00 for each additional
book to the same address. Pre-publication price: $30.00 plus mailing until
March 1, 1999. Order from Brent H. Holcomb, PO Box 21766, Columbia, SC
29221.

The deeds of Abbeville District/County were destroyed by fire in 1872. Dr.
Ware has searched newspapers of Edgefield, Anderson, and Abbeville for
notices of land sales and court cases involving land (and other items),
compiling them in this volume for the use of genealogists and historians.
Orders for land sales from the court of equity and the court of common
pleas were frequently published in the newspaper (by law), and
advertisements for out-of-state heirs were commonplace. Some of such
notices will prove relationships and lineages; others are clues for other
records to be searched. Dr. Ware is already well known for his other
compilations, including Old Abbeville (a history of the town), Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Death and Marriage Notices From The Christian
Magazine of the South, The Erskine Miscellany, and the Due West Telescope
1843-1863, and Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices
Volume II: 1866-1888, all still available (see pages 3 and 8).

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