The minutes begin with the entry of 20 August 1809, when the Lower Fairforest Baptist Church was established as an arm of Padgett's Creek Baptist Church, which had been established in 1784. Some families who belonged to the Fairforest Meeting prior to the Revolution were members of the Padgett's Creek church and later of the Lower Fairforest Church.The author has included the church minutes for 1809-1875 and membership lists from the earliest list to the year 1906. Even the list of 1906 includes later entries concerning deaths and dismissions of members. These minutes cover the usual matters of church membership and discipline. Some dates of death are included within the membership lists. Occasionally, maiden names of married women are indicated. However, Baptist church minutes do not, as a rule, provide records of births, marriages, and deaths. The names of slave members, often noting the names of their owners, are interwoven in the records and are included in membership lists of the Lower Fairforest Baptist Church, providing valuable African-American historical and genealogical information. This compilation will be helpful to historians, genealogists, and descendants of members of this early Union County church. (1997), 2021, 6x9, paper, index, 126 pp

Lower Fairforest Baptist Church, Union County, South Carolina: Minutes 1809-1875, Membership Lists through 1906

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Holcomb, Brent

Genealogy

Heritage Books, Inc.

This volume represents the last work on a publication done by Mrs. Caroline T. Moore, author of the three volumes of Abstracts of the Wills of the State of South Carolina, a fourth volume Abstracts of the Wills of Charleston District 1783-1800, and an additional volume Abstracts of the Records of the Secretary of the Province 1692-1721, published in the period 1960-1978. The present volume contains information about wills and estates and a list of marriage licenses 1812-1823. With few exceptions, the original loose wills and estates papers for Charleston District did not survive from this period. Therefore, much of the information in this record cannot be found elsewhere. As is the case with many records, there is information included from an earlier time, sometimes many years earlier. A number of soldiers died in 1815, and people from other districts in South Carolina were called on to administer their estates. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. (2002), 2022, 6x9, paper, index, 218 pp.

Charleston District, South Carolina, Journal of the Court of Ordinary 1812-1830

Moore, Caroline

Heritage Books

Laurens County, South Carolina, was formed in 1785 as a county of Ninety Six District. Laurens County bordered on the counties of Spartanburg, Union, Newberry, Abbeville, Greenville, and Edgefield. A small portion of Laurens County was annexed to Greenville County in 1793.
It is very unusual for a record, such as these minutes of the county court for Laurens County, to surface after being lost for so many years. While this volume is not complete, missing the first fifty-four pages, pages 103–126, and an unknown number of pages at the end of the volume, it is still an exciting and significant find.
Within the pages of these court minutes are small court cases, lists of deeds presented to be recorded, applications for administrations on estates and wills proved (beginning in 1787), jury lists, petitions of various kinds, appointments for various offices, apprenticeships, estray animals tolled, and other items. Larger court cases were heard in the district courts. Occasionally, one can infer a relationship of a plaintiff or defendant to a juror.
Maps and an index to names, places and subjects add to the value of this work

Laurens County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court, 1786-1789

History

Americas

The single most important record for any North Carolina county is the minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. The court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions is the lowest court of record for the county. It was where the business of the county was carried on. As the title of the court suggests, the court met four times a year, or quarterly. From a genealogical point of view, the names of more people will appear in this court record than in any other body of county records. In fact, the only place where some names will be found is within such court minutes. Lists of deeds proved and recorded are found in the court minutes, as well as lists of wills proved or administrations on intestate estates taken out. The construction of roads and the road juries (sometimes called road gangs) who were to lay out and maintain the roads are spelled out in these records. Civil suits involving less than $150 (usually over debt), minor criminal cases, depositions, jury lists, tax officials’ names with their districts, tavern licenses and tavern rates, and care of the poor of the county are among the many kinds of records included in the court minutes. The records in this volume were extracted from the microfilm copy (produced by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History) of the Tryon County Court Minutes (C.094.30001).
Tryon County was abolished in 1779 to form Lincoln and Rutherford Counties. Of the four counties involved in the North Carolina-South Carolina border problem in the colonial period (Tryon, Mecklenburg, Anson, and Bladen), Tryon County is the only one which has extant court minutes for the period prior to the border surveys of 1772.
A map of Tryon County at the time of its formation, a map of North Carolina in 1775, a full-name index, and a place name index add to the value of this work.

Tryon County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1769-1779

Union County was formed in 1785; in 1800 it became Union District. In the colonial period, the area of Union County was considered part of Craven County or Berkeley County, South Carolina. Prior to the border surveys of 1764 and 1772, the area was included in the North Carolina counties of Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tryon. For this reason, many grants and deeds from North Carolina are referenced in the Union County deeds. Union County bordered on the counties of Spartanburg, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, York, and Chester. Little changes in its boundaries occurred until 1897 when a portion of Union County was taken, with portions of Spartanburg and York Counties, to form Cherokee County.
The deeds in this volume appear to have been recorded between 1785 and 1800, though recording dates are absent from the first deeds in Book A. As is common, there are deeds recorded from a much earlier time period. The earliest deed included in this work dates from 30 May 1752. The deeds in this volume have been abstracted from South Carolina Archives microfilm, Rolls C2204, C2205 and C2206. References within the deed to recordings in the Secretary’s office and the Auditor’s office refer to the royal grants and land memorials respectively.
Abstracts typically include: deed book and page number(s), date of sale/lease, name of grantor/lessor, name of grantee/lessee, the grantee/lessee’s county and/or district of residence, amount charged and/or paid, number of acres and location of property (in a few cases the property is a slave rather than land), names of witnesses, name of justice of the peace and/or other official approving deed, date approved, and date recorded. A map of Union District (1822), a full-name index, and a place index add to the value of this work.

Union County, South Carolina Deed Abstracts, Volume I: Deed Books A-F. 1785-1800 [1752-1800]

Marriage and Death Notices from the Charleston Times, 1800-1821

Genealogical Pub. Co

York, South Carolina, newspapers: Marriage, and death notices, 1823-1865

Reprint Co

This most valuable book contains over 5,000 entries. It is an index to both Intestate and Testate Inventories, Divisions of Estates, Estate Sales, etc..... for the entire state of South Carolina until 1784.

Probate Records of South Carolina, Volume # 1. An Index to Inventories, 1746-1785.

Southern Historical Press

This volumes records contained are: Journal of the Court of Ordinary 1771-1775, abstracts of Letters of administration for SC and Charleston District 1775-1785, abstracts of letters of administration with the Will Annexed Volume K 1778-1821. This 2nd book of the series contains many heretofore unknown probate records from the Colonial and Revolutionary period. The Ordinary's Journal contains references in Testate and Intestate state records and some Marriage Licenses. The Letters of Administration are recently discovered intestate records. This volume covers the Wills and Administrations for the entire state of South Carolina.

Probate Records of South Carolina, Volume #2.

By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1978, reprinted 2022, 104 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-060-8. 
This book has been transcribed verbatim from the original 180-page journal from the well-known Lutheran minister who preached in Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg and Edgefield Districts. SC. It contains many baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials, as well as the churches and other places where Drehr preached. Also listed are some occasional private communions administered to sick or elderly persons. This journal is a much-needed reference tool for persons with families in these counties.

Journal of The Rev. Godfrey Drehr, 1819-1851

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