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Court Records for Newberry County South Carolina
- Newberry District Estate Records: Book A: 1787-1796
This is an index of the Newberry District probate records from Book A, covering the years of 1787-1796. We have listed them alphabetically, though they’ll be found on the microfilm roll in number order. Microfilm: Newberry District Estate Records, 1787-1814: South Carolina Archives Roll# N400. - Newberry District Estate Records: Book B: 1800-1814
This is an index of the Newberry District probate records from Book B, covering the years of 1800-1814. We have listed them alphabetically, though they’ll be found on the microfilm roll in number order. Microfilm: Newberry District Estate Records, 1787-1814: South Carolina Archives Roll# N400. - Newberry District Estate Records: Book C: 1800-1803
This is an index of the Newberry District probate records from Book C, covering the years of 1800-1803. We have listed them alphabetically, though they’ll be found on the microfilm roll in number order. Microfilm: Newberry District Estate Records, 1787-1814: South Carolina Archives Roll# N400. - Newberry District Estate Records: Book D: 1803-1814
This is an index of the Newberry District probate records from Book D, covering the years of 1803-1814. We have listed them alphabetically, though they’ll be found on the microfilm roll in number order. Microfilm: Newberry District Estate Records, 1787-1814: South Carolina Archives Roll# N400. - Newberry County, South Carolina Estates, 1793-1830
- Note: These are the original documents from Rolls # N 68 & N 69: South Carolina State Archives: The accounting documents appear to be just scraps of paper microfilmed for the particular person mentioned. This page will be updated as more documents are indexed.
Edgefield County Civil War Records
- Civil War Regiments: Second Cavalry
Transcription of the muster Roll of Company “I,” Second Cavalry, prepared by Captain T. H. Clark, Trenton, Edgefield County, South Carolina: Names only of those men from Edgefield are here given, except officers who served the Confederacy during the Civil War. - Civil War Regiments: Second Regiment
Transcription of the muster Roll of Company “B,” Second Regiment, State Troops. - Civil War Regiments: Sixth Regiment
Transcription of the muster Roll of Company “B,” Sixth Regiment, Cavalry. - Civil War Regiments: Seventh Regiment Cavalry
Transcription of the muster roll for Company E, Seventh Regiment Cavalry who served the Confederacy during the Civil War. - Civil War Regiments: Fourteenth Regiment Infantry
Transcription of the muster Roll of Company “B,” Fourteenth Infantry Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers: The whole company, officers and men, were from Edgefield, so I need not repeat that statement. - Civil War Regiments: State Troops
Transcription of the muster Roll of Roll of Company “I,” South Carolina State Troops, Station Pocotaligo, February 1864.
Edgefield County War with Mexico
- Abstract of the last muster roll of Captain Brooks
- This page provides a roll of Captain Brooks Company in the Company of old Ninety-Six Boys, Company D, Palmetto Regiment, Mexican War. Includes casualty list with location and cause.
- Volunteers in the War Against Mexico
This is an article from the Edgefield Advertiser dated February 11th, 1836, concerning a reunion of the men who volunteered to serve in the War against Mexico.
Edgefield County Settlers of Various Nationalities
- Abneys, &c
- Captain Tom Bates
- Thomas G. Clemson
- Catlett Connor
- Culbreaths, Hazels, &c.
- Perrys, Colemans, Trotters, &c
- John A. Crouder
- William Gregg
- Dr. William Mobley
- William Padgett
- Christian Priber
- Carsons Towlses
- Travis
- Colonel Sam Watson
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Roving Traders of the Ninety-Six District
For many years before there was any permanent settlement the whole upper country was traversed by roving traders, who bought skins and furs from the natives and made large profits by the trade. Beavers, buffaloes, bears, and other animals, whose skins were very valuable, as well as wolves, catamounts, and wild cats, were quite as plentiful as squirrels and rabbits are now. There were also many wild deer, and at one time the exportation of skins from the State, or colony, ran up as high as to two hundred and fifty thousand a year. As far back as the year…