Counties

This section provides short demographic histories of each of the counties that make up CSI:D’s South Carolina sample together with ancillary county-level data. There are currently 2,826 cases from ten counties in the South Carolina inquest database: Anderson (152 cases), Chesterfield (528 cases), Edgefield (515 cases), Fairfield (292 cases), Greenville (141 cases), Horry (42 cases), Kershaw (262 cases), Laurens (352 cases), Spartanburg (326 cases), and Union (216 cases). We began with these counties for the simple reason that more records survived for them, especially during the Civil War Era.

CSI:D will continue to add relevant records to the database until we have datafied all extent inquisition cases for nineteenth-century South Carolina. The table below provides an overview of known inquest holdings. Inquisition Books and General Sessions records are generally duplicative where they are coterminous.

 


Extant Historic Inquests for Nineteenth Century South Carolina

County Record Type Start Date End Date 19c. Cases? Record Location Record Extent Current Status
Abbeville Inquisition Book 1840 1849 Yes SCDAH 0.16 cubic feet UNDONE
Aiken General Sessions 1873 1947 Yes SCDAH 2.33 cubic feet UNDONE
Aiken Inquisition Book 1901 1933 No SCDAH 5.00 volumes UNDONE
Anderson General Sessions 1830 1953 Yes SCDAH 3.32 cubic feet (2.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Anderson Inquisition Book 1901 1920 No SCDAH 3.00 volumes, bulk 1901-1912 UNDONE
Barnwell Inquisition Book 1892 1956 Yes SCDAH This is an index only. UNDONE
Berkeley Inquisition Book 1883 1927 Yes SCDAH 4.00 volumes UNDONE
Berkeley General Sessions 1924 1939 No SCDAH 0.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Camden District General Sessions 1784 1799 No SCDAH 0.33 cubic feet UNDONE
Charleston Inquisition Book 1878 1912 Yes SCDAH 10.00 volumes UNDONE
Charleston Testimonies in inquisitions 1887 1897 Yes SCDAH 0.00 volumes UNDONE
Charleston General Sessions 1893 1926 Yes SCDAH 0.16 cubic feet UNDONE
Charleston Inquest on Thomas Pinckney, Jr. 1899 1899 Yes SCDAH 1.00 volumes IN PROCESS
Cherokee Inquisition Book 1897 1949 Yes SCDAH 8.00 volumes UNDONE
Chesterfield General Sessions 1866 1950 Yes SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet (4.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Chesterfield Inquisition Book 1869 1953 Yes SCDAH 2.00 volumes UNDONE
Clarendon General Sessions 1866 1953 Yes SCDAH 1.33 cubic feet UNDONE
Clarendon Inquisition Book 1877 1941 Yes SCDAH 1.00 volumes (1.00 microfilm reels) UNDONE
Dillon Inquisition Book 1910 1952 No SCDAH 2.00 volumes UNDONE
Edgefield Inquisition Book 1844 1902 Yes SCDAH 4.00 volumes (2.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Fairfield General Sessions 1808 1908 Yes SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet DONE
Florence Inquisition Book 1889 1928 Yes SCDAH 3.00 volumes (1.00 microfilm reels) UNDONE
Georgetown General Sessioins 1873 1915 Yes SCDAH 0.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Greenville General Sessions 1849 1941 Yes SCDAH 2.97 cubic feet (2.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Horry Inquisition Book 1849 1874 Yes SCDAH 1.00 volumes DONE
Jasper Inquisition Book 1912 1929 No SCDAH 1.00 microfilm reels UNDONE
Kershaw General Sessions 1803 1911 Yes SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet (2.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Lancaster Inquisition Book 1885 1928 Yes SCDAH 3.00 volumes UNDONE
Laurens General Sessions 1800 1901 Yes SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet DONE
Laurens Inquisition Book 1872 1901 Yes SCDAH 3.00 volumes UNDONE
Lee Inquisition Book 1902 1954 No SCDAH 3.00 volumes UNDONE
Lee General Sessions 1903 1959 No SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Lexington General Sessions 1865 1935 Yes SCDAH 0.33 cubic feet UNDONE
Lexington Inquisition Book 1890 1910 Yes SCDAH 1.00 microfilm reels UNDONE
Marlboro General Sessions 1800 1911 Yes SCDAH 0.66 cubic feet UNDONE
Marlboro Inquisition Book 1870 1913 Yes SCDAH 4.00 volumes UNDONE
Marlboro Writ Books of the Coroner 1870 1930 Yes SCDAH 0.00 volumes (1.00 microfilm reels) UNDONE
McCormick General Sessions 1917 1970 No SCDAH 1.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Newberry Inquisition Book 1879 1939 Yes SCDAH 5.00 volumes (1.00 microfilm reel) UNDONE
Newberry General Sessions 1894 1950 Yes SCDAH 0.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Orangeburg Inquisition Book 1885 1945 Yes SCDAH 4.00 microfilm reels UNDONE
Orangeburg General Sessions 1901 1957 No SCDAH 1.32 cubic feet UNDONE
Pendleton District General Sessions 1793 1827 Yes SCDAH 0.33 cubic feet UNDONE
Pickens General Sessions 1856 1859 Yes SCDAH 0.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Richland Inquisition Book 1848 1848 Yes SCDAH 0.00 volumes UNDONE
Richland General Sessions 1871 1890 Yes SCDAH 0.00 cubic feet UNDONE
Spartanburg General Sessions 1803 1908 Yes SCDAH 1.99 cubic feet (2.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Union General Sessions 1806 1956 Yes SCDAH 2.64 cubic feet (4.00 microfilm reels) DONE
Union Inquisition Book 1872 1945 Yes SCDAH 6.00 volumes (bulk 1901-1945) UNDONE
York Inquisition Book 1881 1896 Yes SCDAH 1.00 microfilm reel (bulk 1881-1885) UNDONE

 


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