Pendleton District and Anderson County, S.C. Wills, Estates, Inventories, Tax Returns, and Census Records
Pendleton District and Anderson County, S.C. Wills, Estates, Inventories, Tax Returns, and Census Records

Author: Colleen Morse Elliott

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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By: Virginia Alexander, Colleen Elliott and Betty Willie, Pub. 1980, Reprinted 2013, 512 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-143-4. Pendleton District from which Anderson, Pickens, Oconee and other counties were created was one of the major routes of migration through South Carolina nin the late 1700's and the 1800's. Until the publication of this book, nothing of major significance has been available on this area and people seeking to do research in the Anderson Courthouse have found that the original records are available only at the State Archives. This volume consists of: Pendleton Probate Judge Estate Records, 1793-1799 and Guardian Book 1801-1819, Book C; Will Books A & B 1800-1857; Probate, Inventory, Appraisements, Sales 1839-1851; and Tax Returns n1835-1861.

African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900
African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900

Author: W. J. Megginson

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2022-08-03

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1643363395

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A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.

The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens

Author: Rod Andrew Jr.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1469631547

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Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens's actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also determined to help found the new republic based on broader principles of morality and justice. After the war, Pickens sought a peaceful and just relationship between his country and the southern Native American tribes and wrestled internally with the issue of slavery. Andrew suggests that Pickens's rise to prominence, his stern character, and his sense of duty highlight the egalitarian ideals of his generation as well as its moral shortcomings--all of which still influence Americans' understanding of themselves.

A Faithful Heart
A Faithful Heart

Author: Emmala Reed

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781570035456

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Emmala Reed's journals from 1865 and 1866 present a detailed account of life in western South Carolina as war turned to reconstruction. Reed's postwar writings are particularly important given their rarity - many Civil War diarists stopped writing at war's end. Also unlike many diarists of the period, Reed lived in a small town rather than on a plantation or in an urban center.

The Yankee Plague
The Yankee Plague

Author: Lorien Foote

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1469630567

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During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America. By this point in the war, the Confederacy was reeling from prison overpopulation, a crumbling military, violence from internal enemies, and slavery's breakdown. The fugitive Federals moving across the countryside in mass numbers, Foote argues, accelerated the collapse as slaves and deserters decided the presence of these men presented an opportune moment for escalated resistance. Blending rich analysis with an engaging narrative, Foote uses these ragged Union escapees as a lens with which to assess the dying Confederate States, providing a new window into the South's ultimate defeat.

Rogers-Skelton and Allied Families
Rogers-Skelton and Allied Families

Author: Helen Rogers Skelton

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 1084

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Rogers and his eldest son migrated to America in 1620 on the Mayflower. Thomas was born ca 1586-1587 probably in Dorcetshire or Wilshire. He married Grace __?__. Out of this union, a number of children were born. Thomaśs wife and younger children remained in England. He died in February 1621 at which time his wife married his brother William. After William died, his wife married Roger Porter and left England to come to America.

High Seminary: Vol. 1
High Seminary: Vol. 1

Author: Jerome V. Reel

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1638041059

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This study shows how Clemson weaves together the three federal charges of land-grant institutions—teaching (specified in the Land Grant Act of 1862), research (the Hatch Act of 1887), and public service (the Smith-Lever Act of 1914)—into a “high seminary of learning.” Clemson students and their lives here are the other major theme of this work. The narrative of this institution traces the people who created it, those who guided it, and the people who lived under its influence and the paths they followed as they left “dear old Clemson.”

Three Dobbins Generations at Frontiers
Three Dobbins Generations at Frontiers

Author: Robert Z. Callaham

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1105552993

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James Dobbins'(b. 1740, Ireland) story begins in Augusta Co., Va. James and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Dobbins spent their formative years, were married, and began their family. Their sons, Robert Boyd and John, were b. 1783 &'85. The family migrated to Abbeville & Pendleton, SC. James & Elizabeth had seven children. Four daughters and their husbands were: Mary w/John H. Morris (emigrated to Franklin Co., TN), Elizabeth w/George H. Hillhouse (emig. to Giles Co. & Lawrence Co., TN), Sarah w/Hugh F. Callaham (emig. to St. Clair Co., Ala.), Jane w/George Liddell (emig. to Noxubee Co. & Winston Co., MS). Their last-born, James, Jr., b. 1790, died young at home. They & their spouses' families were Scotch-Irish settlers in backcountry of SC. Ten families representing two generations were pioneers and products of history, geography, and culture of frontiers in SC. Six children migrated west, north, & south to new frontiers. Grandchildren of James & Elizabeth became the third Dobbins generation at farther frontiers.