Abbeville County Probate Records
Abbeville County was part of Ninety-Six District where the old deed may
be found. It became Abbeville County in 1785, with parts later divided
into Greenwood (1897) and McCormick (1916) counties. The county and
the county seat were both named for the French town, Abbeville. The
county was settled primarily by Scotch-Irish and French Huguenot farmers
in the mid-eighteenth century. After the treaty with the Cherokee
Indians signed in 1777 at Dewitt's Corner (now Due West) with a flux
ofScotch-Irish and French Huguenot farmers. Abbeville played a major
role in the secession from the union of the southern states, and it is
the site where the last Confederate council was held.
Early
settlers: Andrew Hamilton, James Jordan, Patrick Forbis, James Moore,
William McCaleb, William Young, James Maxwell, Thomas Coker, Tucker
Woodson, William Brown, John Lawrence, Ralph Wilson, William Love,
Thomas Shockley, William Love, Barnard Putnam, James Shirley, William
Anderson, Richard Sadler, Benjamin Alderidge, John Nash, Adam Crain
Jones, William Love, Joseph Brown and others.
Probate Records Available to members of South Carolina Pioneers
- Abbeville County Land Grants
- Abbeville Minutes of the Court of Ordinary, Book B (1776-1783)
- Index to Abbeville County Will Book A 1782-1868
- Index to Abbeville County Will Book B 1815-1839
- Index to Abbeville County Will Book C 1839-1855
Transcripts of Wills (1787-1815)
Adams, William ; Agnew, Samuel ; Alexander, Aaron ;
Alexander, William ; Astin, James ; Baird, John ; Baird,
Thomas ; Baker, Caleb ; Banks, Rivers ; Barksdale, Elizabeth
; Barksdale, Higgason ; Baskin, Hugh ; Bates, Fleming ;
Bates, Stephen ; Bayle, Mary ; Bealey, Jane ; Bell, Mathew
; Beraud, John ; Boles, John ; Bond, Robert ;
Bouchillon, John ; Bouchillon, Joseph ; Bowman, John ;
Bowman, William ; Boyd, William ; Branson, Eli ; Brazbach?,
William ; Bredden, Margery ; Brooks, Christopher ; Brown,
Cornelius ; Brown, William ; Brownlee, James ; Brownlee,
John ; Buchanan, Mary ; Caein, Richard ; Caldwell, John ;
Calhoun, Hugh ; Calhoun, James ; Calhoun, Patrick ;
Campbell, John ; Campbell, Margery ; Cane, Mary ;
Carmichael, William ; Carson, William ; Caruthers, Martha ;
Chambers, John ; Chandler, Jesse ; Chiles, James ; Chiles,
John ; Chiles, Jonathan ; Chiles, William, Sr. ; Clark, John
Huston ; Clark, Samuel ; Clark, William ; Clarke, Benjamin
; Clarke, Mary ; Cochran, Andrew ; Coldwell, John ;
Collins, Edward LWT (1837) ; Couey, Samuel ; Covington, William
; Cowan, Andrew ; Cowans, John ; Crozier, James ;
Cunningham, David ; Cunningham, James ; Davenport, John ;
Davis, Martha ; Delechaux, Sarah ; De La Howe, John ;
Delechaux, Jacob ; Donaldson, Mathew ; Drummond, Benjamin ;
Edmiston, John ; Edwards, Andrew ; Edwards, James Cumton ;
Elgin, Ann ; Eymerie, John ; Gable, Herman ; Gaines, William
; Gamble, Samuel ; Gantt, Benjamin ; Gantt, William (1809)
slow loading ; Gill, Daniel ; Glover, Frederick ; Gorley,
James ; Gowedy, Robert ; Gray, James ; Green, Peter ;
Guttry, Thomas ; Hamilton, Archibald ; Hamilton, Thomas ;
Hanks, Luke ; Hannah, Jean ; Harris, John ; Harris, William
; Hathorn, Ann ; Hawkins, John ; Heard, Isaac ;
Hemphill, Andrew ; Houston, John ; Houston, John ; Huggins,
William ; Hughs, Caterene ; Huston, James ; Hutchinson,
William ; Jeffries, Nathaniel ; Jones, Harris ; Kennedy,
Joseph ; Kerr, William ; Kaise, Elizabeth ; King, Benjamin
; Lewallen, Richard ; Liddell, George ; Liddell, James ;
Little, William ; Livingston, George ; Logan, Andrew ;
Marck, John Balthaser ; Marshal, John ; Martin, William ;
Mathews, Victor ; Maxfield, Susanna ; Mayson, John ; Mathew,
John ; McBride, Thomas ; McCarter, Benjamin ; McElwee,
John, John ; McFarlin, Charles ; McGowan, James ; McKee,
Marthy (1813) ; McKee, Thomas ; McKinley, Esther ; Mebin,
John ; Mecklin, David ; Meriwether, Francis, LWT ; Miller,
John ; Mills, Gilbert ; Milroy, William ; Mitchell, Isaac
; Mitchell, Randle ; Mitchell, Tanner ; Morris, William ;
Morrow, George ; Morrow, John ; Moseley, Arthur ; Mott,
Andrew ; Mouchet, Samuel ; Mulherrin, Charles ; Murdoch,
James, Estate, 1837 (image) ; Nash, John ; Nicholas, Julius ;
Noble, James ; Norwood, John ; Norwood, Samuel ; Norwood,
Theophilos ; Oliver, James ; Owens, John ; Paterson, Robert
; Patterson, James ; Patterson, Samuel ; Pettigrew, James
; Pollard, Richard ; Porter, John ; Prince, John, 1782 ;
Pulliam, John ; Ragland, Samuel, John ; Ralston, James ;
Ravlin, John ; Ray, Thomas ; Reid, George ; Reighley,
William ; Robartson, John, Sr. ; Roger, Ann ; Roger, Peter
; Rosemond, John ; Ross, Robert ; Ross, William ; Russel,
John ; Russell, Timothy ; Seawright, James ; Shaw, William
; Shelly, Agnes transcript ; Sims, Nathan ; Smith, Harry
; Stalsworth, Joseph ; Steel, Aaron ; Stewart, Andrew ;
Strain, John ; Swanzy, Robert ; Tatom, William ; Taylor,
Thomas ; Thornton, Samuel ; Tinsley, Thomas ; Turk, John
; Van Swearingen, Joseph ; Vernon, James ; Vernon, James ;
Vickrey, William ; Wallace, James ; Waller, Benjamin ;
Waller, Elizabeth ; Waller, John ; Ward, Joseph ; Wardlaw,
Hugh ; Wardlaw, John ; Wardlaw, Joseph ; Waters, Mary ;
Wedgeworth, William ; Webb, James ; Weed, Nathaniel ; Weed,
Reuben ; White, Francis ; White, James ; White, John ;
Williams, Simeon ; Wilson, Hugh ; Wilson, John ; Wilson,
Michael ; Wilson, Nathaniel ; Wilson, William ; Winn, Thomas
; Woodin, Rebekah ; Woods, William ; Yeldell, Robert ;
Young, James ; Zimmerman, Mary
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