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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*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)}}; {{FSC|428472|item|disp=FS | *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)}}; {{FSC|428472|item|disp=FS Catalog book 972.981 H2a}}; David L. Kent, ''Barbados and America''. (Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980). {{WorldCat|6647288|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|316574|item|disp=FS Catalog 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. | *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. | *Another smaller group was of French origin, mostly descendants of [[South Carolina Church Records#Huguenot|Huguenots]], who came to the area beginning in 1680. | ||
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