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=== The Records === | === The Records === | ||
The major port of entry to South Carolina was Charleston. | The major port of entry to South Carolina was Charleston. In the eighteenth century, many immigrants petitioned for headright lands in the Colony of South Carolina, see: | ||
*Holcomb, Brent H. ''Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals''. (1734-1774) 7 vols. Columbia, S.C.: SCMAR, 1996-1999. {{FHL|975.7 R2h v. 1}} | |||
The Family History Library and the National Archives have fragmentary passenger lists for Charleston for 1820 to 1828 {{FHL|830232}} and for Port Royal for 1865 {{FHL|830245}}. A few arrivals at Charleston are included in an index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at miscellaneous southern ports from 1890 to 1924 {{FHL|1324938}}-{{FHL|1324963}}. | |||
Customs records for the ports of Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort are at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Several published records of pre-1900 immigrants are indexed in P. William Filby, ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'' (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1981, 1985, 1986; {{FHL|[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=973+W32p 973 W32p]}}. Supplements are issued annually. There are cumulative indexes. | |||
More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [ | More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United_States_Emigration_and_Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]]. Records of blacks are listed in the Family History Library Catalog Locality Search under the heading SOUTH CAROLINA - SLAVERY AND BONDAGE and under the heading SOUTH CAROLINA - MINORITIES. Records of other major ethnic groups, including French Huguenots, Ulster Scots, Jews, Quakers, and Catawba Indians, are listed under SOUTH CAROLINA - MINORITIES. | ||
*Dobson, David. ''Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, Volume 1''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986. {{FHL|975 F2d}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc_directoryscottishnorthamerica1680-1830_vol1 World Vital Records] ($). | *Dobson, David. ''Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, Volume 1''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986. {{FHL|975 F2d}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc_directoryscottishnorthamerica1680-1830_vol1 World Vital Records] ($). | ||
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*Stephenson, Jean. ''Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772: Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers''. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1971. {{FHL|975.7 W2s}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806348321_scotch-irishsc World Vital Records] ($). | *Stephenson, Jean. ''Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772: Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers''. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1971. {{FHL|975.7 W2s}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806348321_scotch-irishsc World Vital Records] ($). | ||
The following internet site has potentially useful information: | The following internet site has potentially useful information: [[ http://www.germanroots.com/miscports/charleston.html|German Roots]] (Port of Charleston). | ||
=== Westward Migrants === | === Westward Migrants === |
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