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=== Proprietary Grants  ===

*Smith, William Roy. ''South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-1776.'' (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1903). Digital Versions: [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] and [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/34104-south-carolina-as-a-royal-province-1719-1776?offset=1 FamilySearch]; {{WorldCat|2415963|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};{{FSC|197282|item|disp=FS Library Film 1320960 item 4}}. Also see [[South Carolina Taxation]] for further information on quitrents.

In 1729 South Carolina was officially separated from North Carolina, although boundaries between the states remained unstable, and North Carolina granted some land to South Carolina. The North Carolina counties of Anson, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rutherford, and Tyron have records that pertain to South Carolina residents. An example of a printed source for these records is:  

*Holcomb, Brent H. ''North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina. ''Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1980.  {{FSC|291245|item|disp=FS Library Book 975 R28n}}. Volumes. 1-2 are for years 1749-1773 for Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tyron counties). <br>

South Carolina deeds, releases, bonds, and mortgages from all counties were recorded at Charleston during the years 1719 to 1786. The original documents are in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance in Charleston. Copies are at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and the FamilySearch Library. They are indexed in: <br>  

*Langley, Clara A. ''South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1719-1772''. Four Volumes. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1983-84. {{FSC|319453|item}}, FS Library book 975.7 R2L. Witnesses, neighbors, and residences are often mentioned. <br>

Royal land grants issued for the years 1731 to 1775 often pertain to the four original districts of Colleton, Craven, Berkeley, and Granville. The originals are housed at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, and copies are available at the FamilySearch Library. {{FSC|473372|item}}, FS Library films 022581-97 and {{FSC|309605|item}}, FS Library film 361873. The index is on film 022581 {{FSC|473372|item}}. Headright grants were awarded in South Carolina, and are in the South Carolina Council Journals (1749-1773) found at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. <br>  

==== <br>Plats For State Land Grants 1784-1868  ====

The South Carolina Constitution of 1790 required the surveyor general to maintain offices in both the new capital at Columbia and in Charleston. The surveyor general began to use separate volumes for recording plats in his Columbia office in 1796. Before that, all plats were recorded in the set of volumes begun in Charleston in 1784. After 1796, most plats for land grants in the Upper Division of the state were recorded and filed in Columbia. The surveyor general chose to make the Columbia volumes a continuation of the state plat volumes begun in Charleston and gave the initial Columbia volume the number thirty-six to correspond with the number of the volume that had then been reached in the Charleston series. As a result, there are volumes numbered thirty-six through forty-three from each office, but the records in them are not duplicative.  

Indexes in original deed books often omit items such as slave sales and prenuptual agreements. Where possible, search both original deed book indexes and published abstracts with everyname indexes.<ref>Mike Becknell, "Overview of South Carolina Genealogical Research," Group Tour of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 10 May 2011.</ref>  

=== References  ===

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