Reference Books
South Carolina
To order Books from Brent Holcomb...
Please refer to bottom of page.
24 Apr 2000_Brent Holcomb:
"I have just published a book by Susan KING":
'ROMAN CATHOLIC DEATHS IN CHARLESTON SC 1800-1860'.
The book is hard cover, and available for $40.00 plus $3.00 postage
from Brent H. HOLCOMB.
also
more BOOKS BY...Brent
Holcomb...
We are pleased to be
able to offer the following books
by the late Mrs.Caroline
T. MOORE.
All
volumes are indexed.
Prices
are stated. If all volumes are ordered together, we offer them at
a special price
of $175.00
plus postage and sales tax (if applicable). Postage and handling: $3.00
for the
first book; $1.25 for each additional book.Maximum shipping $7.50.
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Abstracts of the Wills
of the State of South Carolina 1670-1740.
Spiral
softcover. Price $20.00. 346 + xiv pages.
This
volume contains abstracts of wills...
from the beginning of
the province of South Carolina. Some of
these wills make reference
to previous residences such as Barbados,
France, New England,
and England.
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Abstracts of the Wills
of the State of South Carolina 1740-1760.
Hard cover.
Price $40.00. 355 + xii pages.
Wills abstracted in this
volume...
reflect the expansion
of the province inland, such as that of Abraham
Pennington
in 1755, who lived in what was later Newberry County. Wills
from persons settled
in the townships, such as Williamsburg, and
parishes, such as St.
Bartholomew's, are found as well.
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Abstracts of the Wills
of the State of South Carolina 1760-1784.
Hard cover.
Price $45.00. 454 + xii pages.
The wills abstracts in
this volume...
take us from the late
Colonial period through the Revolution to the time
when the districts, such
as Ninety Six and Camden, took over the probate
function in late 1781.
In this period portions which had been in North
Carolina were added to
South Carolina by the border surveys of 1764
and 1772, known as the
New Acquisition.
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Abstracts of the Wills
of Charleston District, South Carolina 1783-1800.
Hard cover.
Price $45.00. 526 + x pages.
Wills abstracted in this
volume...
are from the present-day
counties of Charleston, Colleton,
Dorchester, and Berkeley.
Colleton District was formed in 1800
from Charleston District.
Still there is an occasional will from another
part of South Carolina,
such as St. Matthews Parish, Prince William's Parish,
and Ninety Six District.
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Abstracts of Records
of the Secretary of the Province of South Carolina
1692-1721.
Hard cover.
Price $40.00. 457 + xii pages.
Records abstracted in
this volume...
include administration
bonds, some wills not included in the
other volumes, warrants
of appraisement, letters of administration,
letters of guardianship,
and other items which might be found in
estate packets if such
packets were extant. This volume is essential
for research in the early
period of South Carolina.
Order from:
Brent H.
Holcomb
PO Box
21766
Columbia,
SC 29221
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