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| Brent H. Holcomb, CG, sums up the problem of finding South Carolina passenger lists:<br>"One of the questions most frequently asked about South Carolina records is 'Where are the shiplists?'. Your editor has seen many disappointed faces when he has explained that in the Colonial period they do not exist outside of the few actual lists in the South Carolina Council Journals and what might be gleaned from the texts of individual petitioners for lands."<ref>Brent H. Holcomb, "Passengers Arriving at the Port of Charleston 1820-1829," ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research,'' Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fall 1989):183.</ref>
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| *Revill, Janie. ''A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773. ''Columbia, S.C.: The State Co., 1939. [http://www.genealogical.com/ '''Free Name Search''']<ref>Name Search at Genealogical.com is a comprehensive name index to 638 books and CDs published or reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (now Genealogical.com). For a complete list of the works included, see [[Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com|Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com]]</ref>; publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/A_Compilation_of_the_Original_Lists_of_Protestant_Immigrants_to_South_Carolina_1763_1773/4870.html Genealogical.com]; {{FHL|199954|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 W2r 1968}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48270 Ancestry] ($); 1968 reprint: {{FHL|199954|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 W2r 1968}}. | | *Revill, Janie. ''A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773. ''Columbia, S.C.: The State Co., 1939. [http://www.genealogical.com/ '''Free Name Search''']<ref>Name Search at Genealogical.com is a comprehensive name index to 638 books and CDs published or reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (now Genealogical.com). For a complete list of the works included, see [[Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com|Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com]]</ref>; publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/A_Compilation_of_the_Original_Lists_of_Protestant_Immigrants_to_South_Carolina_1763_1773/4870.html Genealogical.com]; {{FHL|199954|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 W2r 1968}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48270 Ancestry] ($); 1968 reprint: {{FHL|199954|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 W2r 1968}}. |
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| *"Some Emigrants to South Carolina 1727," ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research'', Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer 1986):133. {{FHL|43856|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 B2sc v. 14}}
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| *Holcomb, Brent H.[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F775059 ''Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals'']. (1734-1774) 7 vols. Columbia, S.C.: SCMAR, 1996-1999. In the eighteenth century, many immigrants petitioned for headright lands in the Colony of South Carolina.
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| *"Some Irish Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1753 and 1754," ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research'', Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 1989):25-29. {{FHL|43856|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 B2sc v. 17}}Abstracts of select Irish immigrants found in Council Journals.
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| *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776''. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing co., 1988. {{FHL|313545|item|disp=FHL Book 973 W3c}}.<br>For English passenger lists, 1773 to 1776, which includes some emigrants destined for South Carolina.
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| *Scholarly articles published in ''The American Genealogist'' and the ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' illustrate strategies that will help Americans trace their colonial South Carolina immigrant origins.
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| ==== Colonial Ships ====
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| Several resources can help you learn more about a colonial ship's history.
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| Though they do not include names of passengers, records kept by the Colonial Office and stored at [[England The National Archives|The National Archives]] (Kew, England), document ships' arrivals and departures from South Carolina ports between 1716 and 1767. FamilySearch microfilmed these records. They are useful for learning about the history of ships entering the colony:
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| :Shipping Lists for South Carolina, 1716-1767. {{FHL|209568|item|disp=FHL Films 964002-964003}}
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| ''Lloyd's Register of Shipping'' identifies ships leaving England, their masters, ports of departure, and destinations. They survive as early as 1764 and are being put online at [http://www.lr.org/en/research-and-innovation/historical-information/lloyds-register-of-ships-online/ Lloyd's Register of Ships Online] - free.
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| Dr. Marianne S. Wokeck created a detailed list of "German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775" to Colonial America. Destinations include South Carolina (1730s-1770s). She published the list in an Appendix to:
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| :Wokeck, Marianne S. ''Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America''. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999) {{FHL|1023023|item|disp=FHL book 970 W2w}}.
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| The [http://web.archive.org/web/20100123093207/http://escndatabase.com/shiplist.htm Early South Carolina Newspaper Database] (WayBack Machine) offers a free online index to ships mentioned in eighteenth-century South Carolina newspapers.
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| Lists of ship arrivals announced in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' between 1760 and 1770 have also been published:
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| :Jones, Jack Moreland and Mary Bondurant Warren. ''South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770''. (Danielsville, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1988) {{FHL|667315|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 W2j}}.
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| Many ships that sailed from Bristol, England to South Carolina are described in: ''Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America 1698-1807'' (4 vols.) {{FHL|504033|item|disp=FHL British Books 942.41/B2 B4b v. 38-39, 42, 47}}. All four volumes are available for free online at the [http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications.htm Bristol Record Society website].
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| British Naval Office Shipping Lists, 1678-1825, have been digitized by [http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/collection.php?cid=9781851173181&pid=&did=&cat=&sid=BOABRAW&date_option=equal British Online Archives] (site requires subscription). Names of passengers are not included.
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| ==== African Immigration by Slave Trade ====
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| *The [http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database] Internet site contains references to 35,000 slave voyages, including over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. The database documents the slave trade between Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States. | | *The [http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database] Internet site contains references to 35,000 slave voyages, including over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. The database documents the slave trade between Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States. |
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| *Records of blacks are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog Place-names Search under the heading:
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| :SOUTH CAROLINA - SLAVERY AND BONDAGE
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| :SOUTH CAROLINA - MINORITIES
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| ==== English Immigrants ====
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| In lieu of colonial passenger lists regarding early settlers of South Carolina, genealogists must rely on evidence gleaned from a variety of sources to successfully trace immigrant origins.
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| *The Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London proved the wills of many residents of South Carolina. For access, see [[South Carolina Probate Records|South Carolina Probate Records]]. Heraldic visitations list some members of prominent English families who crossed the Atlantic. [http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html Expert Links: English Family History and Genealogy] includes a concise list of visitations available online. Online archive catalogs, such as [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ Access to Archives], can be keyword searched for place names, such as "South Carolina" and "Charleston," to retrieve manuscripts stored in hundreds of English archives relating to persons and landholdings in this former English colony. These types of records establish links between South Carolina residents and England, which can lead researchers back to their specific ancestral English towns, villages, and hamlets.
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| *The multi-volume ''Calendar of Colonial State Papers Colonial, America, and West Indies'' (1574-1739), which is available for free online at [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx?type=3&gid=123 British History Online.] (see discussion in [[South Carolina Public Records|South Carolina Public Records]]), highlights many connections between England and South Carolina.
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| *More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United States Emigration and Immigration|United States Emigration and Immigration]]. Records of other major ethnic groups, including French Huguenots, Ulster Scots, Jews, Quakers, and Catawba Indians exist.
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| *Motes, Margaret Peckham. ''Migration to South Carolina, Movement from the New England and Mid-Atlantic States, 1850 Census''. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2004. {{FHL|1181581|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 X2mm 1850}}.
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| *Scott, Kenneth. ''British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979. {{FHL|78653|item|disp=FHL book 973 W4s}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49091 Ancestry] ($). Identifies many British immigrants living in Charleston during the War of 1812. | | *Scott, Kenneth. ''British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979. {{FHL|78653|item|disp=FHL book 973 W4s}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49091 Ancestry] ($). Identifies many British immigrants living in Charleston during the War of 1812. |
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| :Brandow published an addendum to Hotten's work<br>Brandow, James C. ''Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=5XVU5n4ACE0C Google books] (free) and at[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Ancestry] ($). | | :Brandow published an addendum to Hotten's work<br>Brandow, James C. ''Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=5XVU5n4ACE0C Google books] (free) and at[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Ancestry] ($). |
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| *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Peter Wilson Coldham]] has published several volumes of English records that identify, among other American immigrants, those destined for South Carolina. Many English indentured servants completed labor terms in South Carolina. Coldham's works are indexed in Filby's ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s'' (digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486 Ancestry] ($)).
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| *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788''. (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004) {{WorldCat|70046500|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1210004|item|disp=FHL CD-ROM no. 2150.}}
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| *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988) {{WorldCat|18328169|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|658375|item|disp=FHL book 942.41/B2 W2c}}; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49090 Ancestry] ($); [http://sites.rootsweb.com/~brbwgw/PubForums.htm Chronicle Barbados] (Barbados entries only); [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown].
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| *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1776''. n.p.: Brøderbund, 1996. {{WorldCat|62596131|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|773852|item|disp=FHL CD-ROM no. 9 pt. 350}}; digital version of select portions at [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown].
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| *"Convicts to South Carolina 1728," ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research'', Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring 1992):82. {{WorldCat|28227902|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|43856|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 B2sc v. 20}}
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| *Runaway advertisements for colonial indentured servants often yield immigration data. The [http://www.shipindex.org/resources/144-early_south_carolina_newspaper_database Early South Carolina Newspaper Database] indexes these records.
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| ==== French Immigrants ====
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| *Many French Huguenots made South Carolina their home. The 114+ volume ''Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina'' is a great starting point for research: {{FHL|233283|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 C4h}}. [http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en Google books] has several volumes. | | *Many French Huguenots made South Carolina their home. The 114+ volume ''Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina'' is a great starting point for research: {{FHL|233283|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 C4h}}. [http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en Google books] has several volumes. |
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| *[http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/ The Palatine Project], sponsored by [http://www.progenealogists.com/ AncestryProGenealogists], includes annotated passenger lists for Germans entering Colonial South Carolina.
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| *The following internet site has potentially useful information: [http://www.germanroots.com/miscports/charleston.html German Roots] (Port of Charleston).
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| ==== Scottish and Irish Immigrants ====
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| David Dobson has dedicated many years to establishing links between Scots and their dispersed Scottish cousins who settled throughout the world. For South Carolina connections, see:
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| *Dobson, David. ''Directory of Scots in the Carolinas 1680-1830. Volume 1. ''Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. , 1986. [http://www.genealogical.com/ '''Free Name Search''']<ref>Name Search at Genealogical.com is a comprehensive name index to 638 books and CDs published or reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (now Genealogical.com). For a complete list of the works included, see [http://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Publications_in_Name_Search_at_Genealogical.com Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com]</ref>; publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Directory_of_Scots_in_the_Carolinas_1680_1830__Volume_1/1483.html Genealogical.com]; {{WorldCat|13148391|disp=At various libraries}}; {{FHL|383575|item|disp=FHL Book 975 F2d}}.
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| *Dobson, David. ''Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, Volume 2''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Also available {{WorldCat|55732092|disp=at various libraries (WorldCat).}}
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| *Motes, Margaret Peckham. ''Irish Found in South Carolina 1850 Census''. (Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2003) {{WorldCat|52114210|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1127308|item|disp=FHL book 975.7 F2mm}}.
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| *Stephenson, Jean. ''Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers. ''Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1971. [http://www.genealogical.com/ '''Free Name Search''']<ref>Name Search at Genealogical.com is a comprehensive name index to 638 books and CDs published or reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (now Genealogical.com). For a complete list of the works included, see [http://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Publications_in_Name_Search_at_Genealogical.com Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com]</ref>; publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Scotch_Irish_Migration_to_South_Carolina_1772/9428.html Genealogical.com]; {{WorldCat|138947|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|199956|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 W2s}}; digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=rts4J_rwXRsC Google Books].
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