The petitions for land found in the South Carolina Council Journals are probably the best source for immigration and migration in the Colonial period. Many petitions indicate that the petitioners are foreign protestants who came on the encouragement given by South Carolina. Some petitions indicate migration to South Carolina from other provinces; some indicate slave holdings of low-country planters; still others give information on persons who died before their land titles could be perfected and the heirs are named.
In the period covered in this volume, the first petitions for land in the newly established townships and other areas are to be found: Orangeburg, Amelia, Williamsburg, Purrysburg, the Welsh Tract, Saxe Gotha, Kingston, Fredericksburg, Queensboro, etc. All of the petitions are properly referenced so that the reader may obtain copies of the appropriate pages from the original journals if desired.
Brent H. Holcomb
cloth, index, 420 pp.
ISBN: 9780913363362
710-7781
