Anderson County
Pictured is Ashtabula, built ca 1790 on the Greensville Highway and Anderson (downtown).
In 1777 after Cherokee Indians signed a treaty ceding its lands to the state, part of the
Indian Land
became known as Pendleton District (the old deeds also refer to it as
the Washington District). In 1790, the town was Pendleton was founded,
later becoming a popular summer resort for low country planters in the
nineteenth century. In 1826 Pendleton district was divided into
Pickens and Anderson Counties. Anderson County was named after the
Revolutionary War General Robert Anderson (1741-1812). Most of the
early settlers of this area were Scotch-Irish farmers who moved south
from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the eighteenth century.
Early settlers: Drennan, Cox, Morris, Bruster, Watkins, Sego, Chappell,
Thompson, Stephens, Hammond, Willson, Tatum, Leonard, Reeves, Neel,
Hamilton, Rainey, Herring, Trotter, Rosamon, Morrow, Anderson, Russell,
Lawrence, Shelton, Douthit, Dilworth and Pickens.
Wills, Estates, Documents Available to Members of South Carolina Pioneers
- Anderson County Will Book A (Abstracts)
- Map of Anderson County
Anderson County Will Book A (Abstracts)
Index to Anderson County Will Book A (1791-1834)
Digital
Images of Original Will Documents: Names of Testators: Compton, James;
Corben, Peter;Dalrumple, Samuel;Findly, Samuel;Gantt, Giles;Gibson,
Randolph;Harris, James S., LWT (1831); Major, Elijah, estate
(1865);Perkins, Isaac;Pickens, Robert; Pollack, John;Shelton,
Lewis;Simms, James;Sinkler, Charles; Smith, John;Thompson,
James;Thompson, Mathew;West, Jonathan
Index to Anderson County Will Book B 1835-1845
Digital Images of Original Will Documents: Testators: Alexander,
Aaron; Bowie, Charles;Bowie, Wesley; Brown, George;Browne,
Elijah;Buchanan, Ebenezer; Burriss, James;Burriss, John;Burt,
Francis; Burt, Moody;Carson, James;Clarke, Matthew;Clinkscales,
Francis; Clinkscales, Levi;Corr, John;Cox, William;Cox, William(2);
Dalrymple, Sarah; Dean, Gwinney;Earle, John; Elliott, William;
Elliott, William (2);Elrod, Isaac; Elrod, Jeremiah;Emerson, Samuel;
Fant, Jesse;Forsythe, William; Gentry, John;Gillison, Archibald;
Goode, Lewelling;Gordon, Robert;Griffin, James;Guttry, David;
Guyton, Aaron;Guyton, Robert;Harper, John; Harper, William; Harris,
James; Harris, John; Harris, Nathaniel; Ingram, John; Jennings,
John; Johnson, John; Junkin, Margaret; Junkin, Robert; Kelly,
Elisha; Keown, William; Lewis, Eleanor; Lewis, Sarah; Linley, John;
Major, Joseph; Martin, David; Martin, David (2); Mason, Ambrose;
McAllister, Nathan;McCoy, James; McCurday, William; McFee,
Samuel;McGee, Jesse;McGill, Samuel; McLin, Hugh; Milford, John; Miller,
Crosby; Mills, Elizabeth; Moorhead, John; Morris, John; O'Briant,
Jesse; Oldham, George; Poole, Robert; Poor, Hugh; Pressly, Rachel;
Pritchard, William; Ragsdale, Frances; Ralston, Robert; Reese, George;
Richardson, Turner; Ritchie, John; Scott, James; Scuddy, Agustine;
Sherrill, Lewis;Smith, John; Stanton, George; Stegall,
Hensley;Stevenson, Joseph; Storey, Charles;Todd, Robert; Tucker,
Bartley; Turpin, William; Warren, Samuel; Warnock, James; Warnock,
John; Watson, David; Watson, David(2); Watson, Thomas; Webster,
James; Williams, Stephen; Wilson, James; Wilson, Ralph; Winter,
Dinah; Wright, Larkin
Index to Anderson County Will Book C 1791-1798
Map of Anderson County
South Carolina Online Databases for Genealogists
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