Hi Elizabeth, the Cheraws District in1790 consisted of Chesterfield,Marlboro
and Darlington. Fred.

ELIZABETH RUSSO wrote:

 Thank you so much for checking!
>
> Q.  Where is CHERAW DISTRICT?
>
> Please pardon my newbie questions.  I started genealogy four months ago
> and had up until two weeks ago focused almost entirely on Huguenots.
>
> My DuBois' always (in the direct line back at least to 1750) spelled  it
> DuBois.  So, I always try to find signatures.  But with census-takers,
> who knows.
>
> The DuBose line is a completely separate line and can almost always be
> ruled out.  It is the Deboise and Duboise that drive me bonkers because
> they could be anyone!  Are any of these censuses in books or CDs that
> people would have access to for further lookup?  Anything with
> occupations and other info would give me a better clue.  The DuBois'
> were generally planters and cotton gin makers.
>
> Terry R Johnsen wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elizabeth:
> >
> > I don't know if you got the census info you were looking for or not, so
> > I did a lookup...
> >
> > 1790 Cheraw District, SC, Peter Duboise, page 47, 01-00-02-00-00
> > 1790 Cheraw District, SC, Peter Duboise, Sr, page 47, 01-01-01-00-00
> > (there are 9 Duboise hh in this district)
> >
> > 1800 Charleston, SC, Peter Duboise, page 102, 10010-10100-00
> > 1800 Darlington, SC, Peter Duboise, Jr, page 121, 10010-31010-02
>

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