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19. Church, Newspaper, Private Records


are located in microfilm Drawers 45-47. This cabinet houses film copies of church records such as colonial period parish registers, and later Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Quaker, and Presbyterian church records (see Church Records at the S.C. Archives, a bound microfilm guide located on a table in the Document Reading Area, and section BL to BX in the Reference Library for published church records). 

Our Newspaper Collection is limited to the colonial period gazettes for Georgia, Virginia, and South Carolina (see F 268 .C64 and F 268 .E37 for three published indexes to the S. C. Gazette, covering 1732 -1766). The Virginia Gazette, 1732 -1780, is indexed in two volumes located at Z 1346 .C3.

Our Private Papers section contains microfilm of over 50 separate collections which are listed in the Microfilm Lists Notebook on top of this cabinet. For private papers that are not on microfilm, see the printed list at MAP KEY 2.

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