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 '''State Land Records'''<br>After South Carolina became a state, unclaimed land was granted by the state. Microfilms of land grants recorded by the Surveyor General, 1784 to 1882, are at the Family History Library (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=362216&disp=Land+grants%2C+1784%2D1882%20%20&columns=*,0,0 022531-580]; the index is on film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=362216&disp=Land+grants%2C+1784%2D1882%20%20&columns=*,0,0 022531]). The original records are at the Secretary of State's Office at Columbia. These are partially indexed in Ronald Vern Jackson, ''Index to South Carolina Land Grants, 1784-1800'' (Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., 1977; Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=55289&disp=Index+to+South+Carolina+land+grants%2C+1%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.7 R22j]).
+'''''Plats For State Land Grants 1784-1868'''''
+This series consists of recorded copies of plats for state land grants for the Charleston and&nbsp;the Columbia Series&nbsp;with their certificates of admeasurement or certification.&nbsp; All personal names and geographic features on these plats are included in the repository's [http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Search.aspx?br=1 On-line Index to Plats for State Land Grants]<br>
+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.
+Also included are the Plan Books containing Plats and Plans.
 '''County Land Records'''<br>Deeds were recorded in the counties by the clerk of the court after 1785. Most of the pre-1800 files are very incomplete. Between 1785 and 1868, land transfers were kept according to a number of old and new districts, later called counties. For further information on the history and organization of districts, see James M. Black, ''The Counties and Districts of South Carolina'', Genealogical Journal, Volume 5, Number 3.