Chesterfield Co. SC Genealogy, Ancestors, Wills

Chesterfield County

Chesterfield County was formed in 1785 and was part of the Cheraw District until 1800 when it was named for the English statesman Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773). The county seat is the town of Chesterfield, but the oldest town in the county is Cheraw, settled around 1748. The old Cheraw District attracted settlers to the Great Pee Dee River to establish farm communities. Welsh settlers from Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as the Scotch-Irish and English settled this region of the country. 

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Miscellaneous Digital Images of Wills and Estates

• Coit, Mary
• Davis, C. W.
• Massey, James
• Smith, Duncan
• Smith, James

• Chesterfield Co. Jury List of 1779

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• Abbeville Co. SC Genealogy, Ancestors, old Wills
  Abbeville County Downtown Abbeville, South Carolina. Burt-Stark House. 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…

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