South Carolina Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

 

About 80 percent of the settlers of colonial [[South Carolina Genealogy|South Carolina]] were of English origin. Many of them came by way of [[Barbados Genealogy|Barbados]] and other colonies rather than directly from [[England Genealogy|England]].<ref>Warren Alleyne and Henry Fraser, ''The Barbados-Carolina Connection'' (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1988). {{WorldCat|17840897|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|428472|item|disp=FHL book 972.981 H2a}}; David L. Kent, ''Barbados and America''. (Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980). {{WorldCat|6647288|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|316574|item|disp=FHL book 972.981 X2b}}. In 1664, a "group of Barbadians joined in an agreement to settle in Carolina." In the twentieth century, this document was kept in the South Carolina Historical Society Collection (reference V/29). See: Moriarty, Appendix, ''Barbados Genealogies,'' p. 670.</ref> A group of Dutch settlers from [[New York Genealogy|New York]] came to South Carolina in 1671. Another smaller group was of French origin, mostly descendants of [[South Carolina Church Records#Huguenot|Huguenots]], who came to the area beginning in 1680. More numerous were the Scottish dissenters, who were brought in beginning in 1682, and the Germans, who arrived during the eighteenth century. Blacks constituted a majority of the population from early colonial times until 1930. Indian wars drove most of the native Americans from the state, but there are still a few Catawba Indians in [[York County, South Carolina|York County]].

 

State-sponsored recruiting efforts brought in a few hundred Germans between 1866 and 1868 and about 2,500 northern Europeans in the early 1900s.