Mills' Atlas just has names of places, waterways-the bigger ones, old 
mills etc...sounds like you are looking for a plat map...the Union 
County Historical Society has a wonderful group of plat maps...but I 
don't know if they cover the areas you're looking for...Charlotte

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From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:34:35 EST
Subject: Mill's Atlas frustration
To: [email protected]

Hi all, 

Steve, I want to thank you for the outstanding job you're doing of 
putting the
Mills' Atlas maps online.  However, I must share my frustration.

My Berry ancestors arrived together from Ireland in 1768, and were given 
a
total of 450 acres on and around the Edisto in Old Berkeley County.  
This
area, I believe, became either Orangeburg or Colleton.  By 1825, there 
were
Berrys all over the censuses, and theoretically there should be Berrys 
all
over the map.  But I have scoured both the Orangeburg and the Colleton 
map,
and there is nary a Berry anyway.  Am I living wrong?  Is it my breath?  
Why
isn't there a Berry somewhere?

Below are excerpts from Jane Reveille's Citizens and Immigrants -- South
Carolina, 1768 , that outline the areas given to my Berrys.  (The words 
in
parentheses are mine.)

"Robert Berry, (age 53, the patriarch) 150 acres in Berkly County on the
Beaver  Pond bounded SW by Samuel Richardson."

"Robert Berry, (age 18)  100 acres in Berkly County on Pen Branch, 
waters of
Edisto River, bounding SE on John Robertson."  (I have found Pen Branch, 
where
Robert Jr.'s land was.  I can find no Beaver Pond, where Robert, Sr. 
was.)

"Anne Berry, (age 21) 100 acres in Berkly County in the fork of Edisto,
bounded NE by Joseph Pendarvis."

"Richard Berry, (age 16) 100 acres in Berkly County on waters of Edisto 
River
bounding SE on Philip Lambright."

"James Berry, (age 15) 100 acres in Berkly County on the waters of 
Edisto
River bounding NE on William Hart, NW on Philip Lambright."

Are the names on the Atlas maps the owners of huge plantations?  Little
100-acre places didn't make the cut? Does anyone have any further info 
that
explains the abscence of names we know are in the counties?  Is anyone 
else
having this frustration?

Thanks,
Marjorie 

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