South Carolina Land and Property: Difference between revisions

Lists of many early landowners of [[South Carolina]] are found in Alexander S. Salley, ''Records of the Secretary of the Province and the Register of the Province of South Carolina, 1671-1675,'' (Columbia, South Carolina: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1944; [http://books.google.com/books?id=-k0TAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Records+of+the+Secretary+of+the+Province+and+the+Register+of+the+Province+of+South+Carolina,+1671-1675&hl=en&ei=_HDlTP7CKY30swPm7a2xCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]; &nbsp;{{FHL|197721|item}}, FHL book 975.7 N2rs; FHL&nbsp;film 1425662 item 5. This includes deeds, wills, and other records. '''<br>'''

'''Royal Period'''<br>From 1719 to 1775, when South Carolina was a royal colony, grants were recorded by the secretary of the province and deeds were recorded separately by the public register. After land offices suspended much of their business in the 1720s, Sir George Carteret bought out most of the proprietor's lands in 1729. The portion originally held by Sir George, and later held by the Earl of Granville, remained under the proprietary system until the Revolution. A discussion of the land system, land frauds, and quitrents is in William Roy Smith, ''South Carolina as a Royal Province'', 1719-1776 (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1903; [http://books.google.com/books?id=-5_II2mbG90C&printsec=frontcover&dq=South+Carolina+as+a+Royal+Province&hl=en&ei=dXLlTJ2lJY32tgOqidWyCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]; &nbsp;{{FHL|197282|item}}, FHL&nbsp;film 1320960 item 4. Also see [[South Carolina Taxation]] for further information on quitrents.