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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrent H. 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These records contain such miscellaneous records as abstracts of equity records, deeds, wills, tombstone inscriptions, jury lists, etc. The counties covered in this volume are as follows: Abbeville, Anderson, Barnwell, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry, Richland, Spartanburg, Union, and York, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanie Revill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1985), 2006, hard cover, index, 456 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893085391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-SC70\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31263935332470,"sku":"117-SC70","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-sc70.png?v=1727811232"},{"product_id":"117-sc115","title":"Laurens County, South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1793-1800, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese abstracts of Deeds begin with the creation of the county court system in South Carolina, 1785. 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Newspaper abstracts are very special to South Carolina research due to the state not officially keeping vital records until 1911.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Rayford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2007\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893088422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-SC125\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31291370373238,"sku":"117-SC125","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-sc125.png?v=1727811262"},{"product_id":"117-sc85","title":"Laurens County, South Carolina Wills, 1784-1840","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaurens County was one of the major paths of migration into South Carolina as well as from South Carolina to Georgia, Alabama and points west. This book contains the names of more than 34,000 persons mentioned in these records, which include wills, proven dates of wills, estate inventories, appraisals and sales, purchasers at these sales, gifts of slaves to individuals not in estate settlements, guardianship decrees, contesting of wills, executorship's revoked and their replacements, remarried widows naming new spouse, heirs vs. executors cases, in-depth instructions for \"unfortunate children\", names of persons from other counties, and states in some cases, and clues to where the family Bible went. This is a veritable gold mine for the genealogist because in many cases this may be the only place where a person is found mentioned in the Laurens County records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColleen Elliott\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1989), 2014, paper, 356 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893086060\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-SC85\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31291391246454,"sku":"117-SC85","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-sc85.png?v=1775778687"},{"product_id":"102-9517","title":"Laurens County, South Carolina: Rabun Creek Settlement, 1762-1848","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe original settlement along Rabun Creek (situated about five miles west of the City of Laurens, Laurens County) is associated with migrants from Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina (many of them Scots-Irish). Rabun Creek's first recorded settler was a John Turk in December 1752; however, the settlement of the up-country in South Carolina grew slowly in the 1750s due to conflicts with the Cherokee Nation. Renewed settlement occurred after the 1755 Cherokee Treaty, but was short-lived. The Cherokee War brought turmoil to the frontier during 1760-1764. Resolution of the Cherokee conflict, restoration of order, and establishment of some governmental structure of the back country allowed rapid expansion to occur after 1765.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe area was now in transition from the earlier Indian traders and frontiersmen to yeoman planters. The new settlers were Quakers, Baptists, Irish, Scots, and English looking for new land in this section of the up-country. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, the Cherokee joined forces with Loyalists to harass the new arrivals. For example, James Lyndley's fort, built after 1768, became a safe haven for Rabun Creek inhabitants during the Revolution. With the end of the Cherokee threat, the region stabilized; new Indian lands were open for settlement, and a number of Rabun Creek progeny would make their way to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Ohio in quest of Indian and bounty land now available there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe work at hand, \u003ci\u003eLaurens County, South Carolina: Rabun Creek Settlement, 1762-1848\u003c\/i\u003e, contains abstracts of the South Carolina Journal Petitions for Land, South Carolina Colonial Surveys, and Memorials of Land Titles, with chains of title, marriage data, and many lost pieces of information that will assist researchers in this area of Laurens County, SC. These land deeds present new research aids to follow the out-migration of families including many of the earliest land transactions, powers of attorney, and last will and testaments as deeds of gift to family members are found. Ordinarily, Rabun Creek marriages went unrecorded and are difficult to locate, but they also show up in these deeds as dower rights and prior marriages. Children are also found when receiving deeds of gift consisting of lands or named Negroes from family members. Among published sources, Brent Holcomb's works on the \u003ci\u003ePetitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals\u003c\/i\u003e and Sarah M. Nash's \u003ci\u003eAbstracts of Early Records of Laurens County, South Carolina, 1785-1800\u003c\/i\u003e were particularly helpful to the author.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypically, each of the roughly 2,000 entries identifies each landowner, the date of the sale, name of previous owner, price of the transaction, names of adjacent landowner(s), date of survey, names of witnesses, and, as stated above, sometimes a number of family connections to the landowner. Complete with name and place indexes, this pioneering work identifies thousands of ancestors with connections to Rabun Creek prior to 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurens County, South Carolina: Rabun Creek Settlement, 1762- 1848\u003c\/i\u003e is similar in many respects to \u003ci\u003eLaurens and Newberry Counties, South Carolina: Saluda and Little River Settlements 1749-1775\u003c\/i\u003e by the author and her husband, Jesse Hogan Motes, which received the 1995 Excellence Award for Genealogical Methods and Sources from the National Genealogical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Peckham Motes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806355412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9517\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31404869156982,"sku":"102-9517","price":41.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9517.png?v=1745164786"},{"product_id":"101e-fi1112","title":"Laurens County, South Carolina Will Book F, 1825-1834","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances T. 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On the heels of her \u003ci\u003eFree Blacks and Mulattos in the South Carolina 1850 Census\u003c\/i\u003e, she has now abstracted all references to African Americans that could be found in the Deed Books for Laurens and Newberry counties, South Carolina, between 1780 and 1827. Both of these counties in northwest central South Carolina were formed from the Ninety-Six District in 1785, so some of the record abstracts actually pre-date the existence of the counties by five years, when deeds were first recorded in Charleston.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on Laurens County Deed Books A-L and Newberry County Deed Books A-G, \u003ci\u003eBlacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens and Newberry Counties, SC\u003c\/i\u003e covers Deeds of Gift, Deeds of Sale, Mortgages, and references to manumission found in deeds, among twenty-six different kinds of deeds found in the Deed Books. Each abstract gives the date the deed was filed; the names and counties of residence of all parties to the transaction; the amount of the transaction, if any; the names of the African Americans mentioned in the sources, along with any identifying comments (age, height, children, etc.); the names of witnesses and the justice of the peace; and the date the deed was recorded. In some cases, the abstracts list the surnames of free blacks, their dates of birth, or an occupation. In all, more than several thousand African-American slaves and freed men and women living in South Carolina between 1780 and 1827 have been rescued from the obscurity of South Carolina’s deed books, and each of them is easily found in the index to Mrs. Motes’ carefully transcribed volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Peckham Motes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2002), 2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 204 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806351568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9746\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42257132617846,"sku":"102-9746","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9746.png?v=1755622302"},{"product_id":"101-fi0012","title":"Laurens County, South Carolina Will Book A, Volume II, 1840-1853","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains verbatim copies of the old wills of Laurens County, South Carolina. 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