17. British and Other Government Records

are located in microfilm Drawers 1 - 3. This cabinet houses a very important collection of British records dealing with South Carolina in the Proprietary (1663-1719) and Royal (1719-1775/83) periods. The most important source for genealogists are the Council Journals located in Drawers 1-2 (and Drawer 98) that record thousands of individual petitions for land, 1734 - 1775. 

Helpful Hint: located to the left of this cabinet is Brent Holcomb’s seven volume abstract of these records, Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals, 1734-1775 (F 268 .H6426), and Janie Revill, A Compilation of the Original lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773 (F 268 .R49). Drawers 2-3 hold a few records from France, and some colonial and state records from Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.