I want to share with the list some of the resources from the Greenville
County Library the following is a partial listing of some of these.
Recently the library here in Greenville South Carolina has added literally
hundreds of microfilm Records.  Among these additions are most Census
Records from the Southeast and many more from other areas. This SC room is
called the Stowe Room.  

South Carolina Land Records
Stow South Carolina Historical Room, Greenville,SC room County Library
MICROFILM South Carolina
Memorials of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Land Titles,
1731-1778. Includes index. Ninety-Six District, North Side of the Saluda
River Plat Book. 1784-1803.
State Plats: Charleston Series, 1784-1860; Columbia Series, 1796-1868.
Includes Index.

Conveyance Books, 1787-1904
Indexes to Conveyance Books, 1787-1913
Index to Plats, 1799-1975
Plat Books, 1801-1846, 1897, 1900-1912 Real Estate Mortgage Book, 1879-1901
Warrants for Surveys, 1844-1880

Anderson County- (includng Pendleton District)

Conveyance Books 1790-1901 Indexes to Deeds, 1790-1948 Plat Books,
1802-1866, 1871, 1904

Laurens County

Deeds, 1785-1874
Indexes to Deeds, 1774-1903
Plats, 1806-1840
Real Estate, 1828-1934

Spartanburg County

Conveyance Books, 1784-1900
Indexes to Conveyance Books, 1785-1919
Plat Books, 1802-1870

MICROFICHE
SC 929.3757 SC	S.C. Grant Book, 1735-1752
 
REFERENCE BOOKS

SC 333.16 Ackerman	South Carolina Colonial Land Policies
SC 929.3757 SC	Compendium of South Carolina Records: Quitrents, 1733-1734
SC 929.3757 SC	Index to Commissioner of Locations Plat Books A & B
1784-1788: Lower Parts of
		0Id Ninety-Six District
SC 929.3757 SC	Index to South Carolina Land Grants 1784-1800
SC 929.3757 SC	Laurens and Newberry Counties, South Carolina: Saluda and
Little River
		Settlements 1749-1775
SC 929.3757 SC	North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
SC 929.3757 SC	Patent Land Survey: Index of Land Acquisitions 1770-1820
SC 929.3757 SC	Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals,
1734-1748
SC 929.3757 SC	Some South Carolina County Records (2 vol.)
SC 929.3757 SC	South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1788 (7 vol.)
SC 929.3757 SC	South Carolina Memorials: Abstracts of Land Titles
SC 929.3757 SC	South Carolina Quit Rents 1735 & 1736
SC 929.3757 SC Barnweli	Index to State Grants in Barnwell District
SC 929.3757 SC Charleston	Index to Deeds of the Province and State of South
Carolina 1719-1785 and
		Charleston District 1785-1800
SC 929.3757 SC Dutch Fork	The Dutch Fork: a Catalog of Early Land Records
SC 929.3757 SC Edgefield	Edgefield County, South Carolina Abstracts of Deed
Books 1-18
SC 929.3757 SC Fairfield	Fairfield County, S.C. Deed Book A 1785-1788
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Abstracts of deeds: Book A, B & C (1787-1795)
SC 929.3757 SC Horry	Horry District Commissioner of Location Plat Book
A,B,C, 1802-1831
SC 929.3757 SC Lancaster	Lancaster County, South Carolina Deed Abstracts,
1787-1811
SC 929.3757 SC Lexington	Memorialized Records of Lexington District, South
Carolina, 1814-1825
SC 929.3757 SC Marion	Marion County, South Carolina Abstracts of Deeds
SC 929.3757 SC Newberry	Newberry County, South Carolina, Abstracts of Deed
Book P2 1821-1822
SC 929.3757 SC Pendleton	Pendleton District, S.C. Deeds 1790-1810 (2 vol.)
SC 929.3757 SC Richland	Richland District South Carolina Land Records 1785-1865
SC 929.3757 SC Spartanburg	SC Commissioner of Locations 96 District 1786-1803
SC 929.3757 SC Spartanburg	Spartanburg County/District South Carolina Deed
Abstracts Books A-T 1785-1827
SC 929.3757 SC Williamsburg	Abstracts from Deed Books A-E
SC 973.3457 Draine	Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants in South Carolina
SC 975.725 Clayton	Settlement of Pendleton District, 1777-1800

SUBJECT HEADINGS IN PAC

South Carolina- Deeds
South Carolina- Genealogy
Land Grants- South Carolina
Land Tenure- South Carolina
Land Titles- South Carolina

Also above subject headings for each county in South Carolina.
AFRO'AMERICAN RESEARCH

THE STOW SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL ROOM, GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY

RESEARCH GUIDES

	GEN 016.9291 Lawson	Generations past: a selected list of sources for
Afro-American genealogical
		research
	SC 355.30979 Moebs	Black soldiers. Black sailors- Black ink: research guide
	SC 929.1 Begley	African American genealogical research
	GEN 929.1 Bloekson	Black genealogy
	GEN 929.1 Ethnic	Ethnic genealogy: a research guide
	GEN 929.1 Walker	Black genealogy:, how to begin
	SC 929.1072 Megginson	Tracing your family roots
	GEN 929.1089 Streets	Slave genealogy	,,
	SC 929.108996 Beasley	Family pride
	SC 929.108996 African	African American genealogical source book
	GEN 9,29.373 U.S.	Black Indian genealogy research

SOUTH CAROLINA SOURCES

 SC 286.1757 Bethlehem	124th anniversary or Bethlehem Baptist Church
SC 286.1757 Mlddleton	Directory and pre-1900 historical survey of SC's Black
Baptists
SC 305.563 Albanese	The plantation school
SC 373.75727 Butler	Sterling High School, bless her name!
SC 373.7579 Drago	Initiative, paternalism & race relations: Charleston's
Avery Normal Institute
SC 929.3 SC	South Carolina 1850 and 1860 slave schedule census Index
SC 929.3757 SC	Black soldiers in World War I: Anderson, Plckens and 0conees
Counties ...
SC 929.3757 SC Anderson	Profiles of black folks In Anderson County
SC 929.3757 SC Cherokee	Black families In Cherokee County, South Carolina ...
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Abstracts of some Greenville County, SC, records
concerning black people ..,
SC 929.5 SC Anderson	African-American cemeteries
SC 929.5 SC Greenville	Black church cemeteries, Greenville County, South
Carolina
SC 929.5 SC Sumter	Black churches and cemeteries of Snmter County, SC
SC 973.0496 To	To walk the whole Journey: African-American cultural
resources ...
SC 973.314 McElligott	Some eighteenth century South Carolina slave owners
and their slaves
SC 373.7415 Gourdtn	104th Infantry Regiment USCT: colored Civil War soldiers
SC 975.7 Begiey	African American genealogical research
SC 375.729 Henderson	Spartan slaves: a documentary account of blacks on
trial in Spartanburg...
SC Microfiche 633 Peyre	Plantation jo .urn&l
SC Microfiche B Andrews	The life and adventures of Capt. Robert W, Andrews
of Sumter ...
SC MicrofT!m	State free Negro capitation tax books, Charleston, SC ...
SC Microfilm	1850 and 1860 slave schedule census

MISCELLANEOUS

GEN 366.1 Grimshaw	Official history of freemasonry among the colored people
SC973.315 Qaqrles 		
	The Negro in the American Revolution
SC 373.346 Greene	Black courage, 1775-1783
 
SCHOOL YEARBOOKS (various dates)

SC 371.805 Joseph	The Hurricane (Joseph R. Bryson High School)
SC 371.805 Lincoln	The Rattler (Lincoln High School)
SC 371.805 Morris	The Hornet (Morris CoLlege)
SC 371.805 South	The Bulldog (South Carolina State College)
SC 371.805 Sterling	The Torch (Sterling High School)
SC 371.805 Voorhees	The Tiger (Voorhees College)
SC 371.805 Washington	The Falcon (Washington High School)

OTHER STATES

GEN 355.0092 On	On the trail of the Buffalo Soldier: biographies of African
Americans in the
	U.S. Army, 1866-1917
GEN 355.30973 Sandel	Black Soldiers in the Colonial Militia' Documents from
1639-1780
GEN 929.3755 VA Montgomery Entitled: free papers in Appnhehia concerning
antebeLlum freeborn
	Negroes
GEN 929.3755 VA Northampton The register of free Negroes, Northampton
County, Virginia
GEN 929.3755 VA Rockingham Register of free blacks, Rockingham County, Virginia
GEN 929.3756 NC	Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia
GEN 929.3756 NC	The heritage of Blacks in North Carolina
GEN 929.3756 NC	Somebody knows my name, v. 1-3
GEN 929.3758 GA Elbert	Elbert County, Georgia marriages, 1805-1913
GEN 929.3771 OH	Register of black, mulatto and poor persons in four Ohio
counties ...
GEN 975.6 Crow	The Black experience in Revolutionary North Carolina
GEN 375.6 Crow	A History of African Americans in North Carolina

FAMILY HISTORIES

SC 929,2 Butler	Butler-Wood family reunion
SC 929.2 Durham	History and reunion of the descendants of Lilla Childs
Durham and Larthun
	Durham
SC 929.2 Greer	The Tree
SC 929.2 Hendrlcks	Gathering the generations: Hendrlcks, Henderson, Forguson ...
SC 929.2 Madden	Madden fnmily reunion
GEN 929.2 Simons	A coLloquial history of a Black South Carolina fnmily named
Simons
GEN 929.2 White	Good remembrance
GEN 929.2 Wofford	The homecoming:, a celebration of the Wofford, Lottie and
Brinker families






A South Carolina Room research Paper compiled by Betty Monahan l/97, rev.. 3/98
 
PROBATE RECORDS
(Including Equity Court, Guardianship, etc.)
Stow	South Carolina Historical Room Greenville County Library

Microfilm

	South Carolina	Will Transcripts, 1782-1868
	Abbeville Co.	General Index to Equity Records, 1791 - 1906
	Abbeville Co.	Wills, 1787-1815
	Anderson Co.	Real Estate Book, 1793-1836
	Greenville Co.	Account Book, 1894-1905
	Greenville Co.	Administration and Guardianship Bonds, 18 ! 6-1905
	Greenville Co.	Annual Return Books A-M, 1817-1902
	Greenville Co.	Estate Records, 1 784-1936
	Greenville Co.	Index to Probate Court [Estate Papers], 1787-1976
	Greenville Co.	Inventories and Appraisements, Book B, 1825-1829
	Greenville Co.	Returns, Book A, 1817-1824
	Greenville Co.	Will Books, 1820-1907
	Laurens Co.	Administration Bonds, 1804- ! 819
	Laurens Co.	Annual Returns, 1840-1867
	Laurens Co.	Decree Book, 1840-1868
	Laurens Co.	Equity Court Decree Book, 1807-1823
	Laurens Co.	Estate Papers, 1800-1931
	Laurens Co.	General Estate Index, 1800-1931
	Laurens Co.	Guardian Returns (Equity), 1807-1830
	Laurens Co.	Indexes to Bills, Petitions, Decrees ... 1796-1869
	, Laurens Co.	Inventories, Appraisements, and Sales, 1825-1853
	Laurens Co.	Journal, 1840-1895
	Laurens Co.	Partitions of Estates, 1803-1826
	Laurens Co.	Real Estate, 1828-1934
	Laurens Co.	Wills, 1836-1890

	Ref. Books

	SC 929.3757 SC	Abstracts of the Wills of the State of South
			Carolina, 1670-1784
	SC 929.3757 SC	A Collection of Upper South Carolina
			Genealogical and Family Records
	SC 929.3757 SC	A Genealogical Collection of South Carolina
			Wills and Records
	SC 929.3757 SC	Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina
	SC 929.3757 SC	Probate Records of South Carolina, 1746-1785
	SC 929.3757 SC	Some South Carolina County Records
	SC 929.3757 SC	Some South Carolina Genealogical Records
	SC 929.3757 SC	South Carolina Wills, 1670-1853
 
SC 929.3757 SC Abbeville	Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville
		District Wills and Bonds
SC 929.3757 SC Anderson	Pendleton District and Anderson County, S.C.
		Wills, Estates, Inventories ...
SC 929.3757 SC Barnwell	Court of Equity Records of Barnwell District ...
SC 929.3757 SC Barnwell	Winton (Barnwell) County ... Minutes of County
		Court and Will Book 1, 1785-1791
SC 929.3757 SC Camden	Camden District, S.C. Wills and Administrations,
		1781-1787 (1770-1796)
SC 929.3757 SC Charleston	Abstracts of Wills of Charleston District ... and
		Other Wills ... 1783-1800
SC 929.3757 SC Charleston	Index to Wills of Charleston County ... 1671-
		1868
SC 929.3757 SC Cherokee	Abstracts of Cherokee County Will Book I
SC 929.3757 SC Edgefield	Abstracts of Wills, Edgefield County
SC 929.3757 SC Edgefield	Edgefield County ... Old Wills, 1787-1818
SC 929.3757 SC Edgefield	Edgefield County, SC wills 1787-1836
SC 929.3757 SC Edgefield	Indexes of Edgefield County
SC 929.3757 SC Georgetown	Abstracts of Wills, Georgetown County
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Index to Deaths, Marriages, and Probates in the
		Southern Enterprise and Greenville
		Enterprise Newspapers, 1866-1870
SC 929.3757 SC Laurens	Laurens County ... Wills, ] 784-1840
SC 929.3757 SC Laurens	Laurens County [Will Books, 1777-1853,
		various volumes]
SC 929.3757 SC Lexington	Memorialized Records of Lexington District ...
		1814-1825
SC 929.3757 SC Marion	Marion County ... Extracts from Equity Rolls
SC 929.3757 SC Marion	Marion County Probate Records
SC 929.3757 SC Marlboro	Wills of Marlboro County
SC 929.3757 SC Newberry	Newberry County ... Probate Estate Abstracts
SC 929.3757 SC Newberry	Will Book L
SC 929.3757 SC Ninety Six	Ninety Six District ... Journal of the Court of
		Ordinary ... 1781-1786
SC 929.3757 SC Orangeburgh	Orangeburgh District ... Returns in Pardi:ion
SC 929.3757 SC Spartanburg	Spartanburg County ... Will Abstracts, 1787-
		1840
SC 929.3757 SC Union	Union County ... Will Abstracts, i 787-1849
SC 929.3757 SC Williamsburg	Williamsburg County Probate Records, 1806-ca.
		1900

Sub!eot Headings in PAC

[Name of county] (S.C.) - Genealogy
Probate Records - South Carolina - [Name of county]
South Carolina - Genealogy
Wills - South Carolina - [Name of county]

A South Carolina Room Research Paper compiled by Betty Monahan 6/97, rev. 3/98
 
South Carolina Newspapers
Stow South Carolina Historical Room, Greenville County Library

Microfilm
Anderson	Anderson Gazette, 1843-1848
Anderson	Highland Sentinel, 1840.1843
Beaufort	Free South, 1863-1864
Camden	Camden Commercial Courier, 1837-1838
Charleston	Charleston Daily Courier, 1803-1873
Charleston	Charleston Times, 1800-1821
Charleston	Charleston Tri-Weekly Courier, 1832-1870
Charleston	South Carolina Gazette, 1732-1782 [title varies]
Columbia	Columbia Telescope, 1815-1839
Columbia	Daily South Carolinian, 1849-1867
Columbia	Daily Southern Guardian, 1858-1870
Columbia	Palmetto leader, 1925-1957
Columbia	South CaroUna State Gazette and Columbia advertiser, 1822-1828
Columbia	Southern Times Gazette, 1830-1838
Columbia	South-Carolina Temperance Advocate, 1839-1847
Columbia	Southern Chronicle, 1840-1847
Columbia	The State, 1967-1977
Columbia	Tri-weekly South Carolinian, 1849-1865
Edgefield	Edgefield Advertiser, 1836-1902
Greenville	Daily Enterprise, 1876
Greenville	Enterprise and Mountaineer, 1873-1891
Greenville	Greenville Daily Piedmont, 1912-1916
Greenville	Greenville News, 1900-current
GreenviUe	Greenville Observer, 1930-1944
Greenville	Greenville Piedmont, 1927-1995
Greenville	Greenville Republican, 1826-1828
Greenville	Parker Progress, 1925-1928
Greenville	Patriot and Mountaineer, 1855-1866
Greenville	Piedmont, 1916-1927
Greenville	Southern Enterprise, 1854-1870
Greenville	Southern Patriot, 1851-1855
Greenwood	Greenwood Index, 1897-1919 (includes Daily Index and Evening Index)
Greer	Greer Citizen, 1922-1988
Lancaster	Lancaster Ledger, 1852-1866
Laurens	Laurens Advertiser, 1885-1901
Laurens	Laurenceville Herald, 1846-1900
Pendleton	Miller's Weekly Messenger, 1807-1814
Pendleton	Pendleton Messenger, 1818-1849
Pickens	Pickens Sentinel, 1875-1907
Spartanburg	Carolina Spartan, 1849-1893
Spartanburg	Spartanburg Express, 1857
Spartanburg	[Miscellaneous newspapers], 1844-1949
Walhalla	Keowee Courier, 1849-1876
[Note: dates indicate beginning and ending issues and do not mean run is
complete; some issues may be lacking{
 
Books

SC 015.757 Moore	South Carolina Newspapers
SC 929.3757 SC	Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death and Marriage Notices,
1866-1888
SC 929.3757 SC	Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette, 1732-1775
SC 929.3757 SC	Genealogical Abstracts from the South Carolina Gazette, 1732-1735
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from Baptist Newspapers of South
Carolina
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from the Charleston 0bservor,
1827.1845
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from the (Charleston) Times, 1800-1821
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Patriot
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from Upper S.C. Newspapers, 1843-1865
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage and Death Notices from the Up-Country of South
Carolina as Taken
		from Greenville Newspapers, 1826-1863
SC 929.3757 SC	Marriage Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1867-1878
SC 929.3757 SC	South Carolina Newspapers: the South-Carolina Gazette, 1760
SC 929.3757 SC Abbeville	Marriage and Death Notices from the Abbeville
Banner, 1846-1860
SC 929.3757 SC Anderson	Early Anderson County, S.C., Newspapers, Marriages
and Obituaries, 1841-1882
SC 929.3757 SC Anderson	Equity Notices Published in the Pendleton Messenger,
1826-1848
SC 929.3757 SC Anderson	Marriage and Death Notices from Pendieton (S.C.)
Messenger, 1807-1851
SC 929.3757 SC Camden	Marriage and Death Notices from Camden ... Newspapers,
1816-1865
SC 929.3757 SC Charleston	Marriage Notices in Charleston Courier, 1803-1808
SC 929.3757 SC Columbia	Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia ...
Newspapers, 1792-1839
SC 929.3757 SC Columbia	Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia ...
Newspapers, 1838-1860
SC 929.3757 SC Georgetown	Marriage, Death and Estate Notices from
Georgetown, S.C. Newspapers,
		1791-1861
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Greenville County Marriages as Published in the
Greenville News... 1970-1975
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Greenville County Obituaries as Published in the
Greenville News... 1970-1979
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Index to Deaths, Marriages, and Probates in the
Southern Enterprise...1866-1870
SC 929.3757 SC Greenville	Index to Obituaries in the Greenville News,
1925-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949
SC 929.3757 SC Pickens	The Keowee Courier, 1849-1851, 1857-1861, and 1865-1868
SC 929.3757 SC Pickens	The People's Journal ... 1894-1903
SC 929.3757 SC Pickens	The Pickens Sentinel ... 1872-1893
SC 929.3757 SC Union	Union County, South Carolina Death Notices ... 1852-1914
SC 929.3757 SC Union	Union County, South Carolina Marriage Notices ... 1851-1912
SC 929.3757 SC Williamsburg	Index to Death Notices in Williamsburg County
Newspapers, 1894-1994
SC 929.3757 SC Williamsburg	Index to Marriage Notices in Williamsburg County
Newspapers, 1897-1994
SC 929.3757 SC York	York, South Carolina, Newspapers: Marriage and Death
Notices, 1823-1865

NEWSPAPERS CURRENTLY RECEIVED

Greenville News
Greet Citizen
Times Upstate
Times Examiner
Traveler's Rest Monitor
Tribune-Times

There is a computer index of the Greenville News for articles relating to
Greenville and South Carolina beginning in 1992 and for births, deaths,
marriages and divorces beginning in 1994.
A South Carolina Room Research Paper compiled by Betty Monahan and Misty
Johnson 4/9;
 
NEW!
CENSUS MICROFILM

Stow South Carolina Historical Room

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  Greenville County, Abbeville County,Anderson County(Pendleton District),
Pickens County, Oconee County, SC, Polk Co.& Rutherford Co. NC.

Am working on Cothran, Cochran, Cockrum, Cockerham, Cockram Families in SC.
Have connections to Holliday,
Woodson, Cooley in Greenville County, SC. John Cothran(1790-1876) married
Sarah Woodson daughter of 
Tucker Woodson. Their son James Latimore Cothran married Mary Clark daughter
of Eli Clark. These families
were  around Chesley Cockerham, Hezikiah Cockerham about 1800.

Other surnames in NC and SC: Keese, Isbell, Skelton, Rowan, Stepp, Cochran,
Stevenson,
Brown,  Presley, Newell, Reid, McCord!,Hester,Strickland,Hines, Lancaster,, 

Seeking researchers to share information. Need parents and siblings of John
Cothran and their origin.Contact Information:Stephen McCord Brown, 31
Lullwater Rd. , Greenville, SC, 29607, United States 

Telephone: 864 2926290 Fax: 864 3227222
[email protected]

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