To order the books below write to: Brent H. Holcomb P.O. Box 21766 Columbia, S.C. 29221. Mr. Holcomb is also the editor and publisher of " The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research." Brent also has a webpage:http://www.netside.com/~scmar

Newberry County South Carolina Deed Abstracts, Volume I: Deed Books A-B 1785-1794 [1751-1794] by Brent H. Holcomb. Hard cover, 200 pages, indexed. Price $30.00 plus $3.50 mailing for first book, $1.00 for each additional book to the same address. Pre-publication price: $25.00 plus mailing until March 1, 1999. Order from Brent H. Holcomb, PO Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221.

Upon the establishment of county courts in South Carolina in 1785, deeds could be recorded locally, in the counties. Newberry County is fortunate to have suffered no major loss of records. While the deeds in these deed books were recorded between 1785 and 1794, within these deed books are instruments dating from a much earlier time, some as early as 1751. Newberry County borders the counties of Laurens, Union, Fairfield, Edgefield, and Lexington. For that reason, references are found to those counties, or residents of them, within the Newberry County deeds. In addition to the land conveyances, bills of sale for slaves, and deeds for personal property are included within these deed books.

ABBEVILLE DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWSPAPER NOTICES OF LAND CASES AND SALES 1836-1872 by Lowry Ware, Ph.D. Hard cover, 310 pages, indexed. Price: $35.00 plus $3.50 mailing for first book, $1.00 for each additional book to the same address. Pre-publication price: $30.00 plus mailing until March 1, 1999. Order from Brent H. Holcomb, PO Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221.

The deeds of Abbeville District/County were destroyed by fire in 1872. Dr. Ware has searched newspapers of Edgefield, Anderson, and Abbeville for notices of land sales and court cases involving land (and other items), compiling them in this volume for the use of genealogists and historians. Orders for land sales from the court of equity and the court of common pleas were frequently published in the newspaper (by law), and advertisements for out-of-state heirs were commonplace. Some of such notices will prove relationships and lineages; others are clues for other records to be searched. Dr. Ware is already well known for his other compilations, including Old Abbeville (a history of the town), Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death and Marriage Notices From The Christian Magazine of the South, The Erskine Miscellany, and the Due West Telescope 1843-1863, and Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices Volume II: 1866-1888, all still available (see pages 3 and 8).

ABBEVILLE BOOKS LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY FROM OLD 96, SC

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LeRoy HESTER-McCELVEY AND OTHER RELATED FAMILIES $40.00 84 pp (with a Brief History of the Mt. Carmel Area by John C. Blythe Jr.) Contents include My Parents' Recollections, Hester, Darracott, Wingfield, Taggart, Partlow, Dozier, Bolling, Stokes, Cade, McCelvey, Calhoun, Mars, Turnipseed, Rebsamen, Caldwell of Newberry, Gray, Stanfield, Link, Harris, Roberts, Wideman, Willis, LeRoy, Pyle, Purkey & Hartley families. Also includes map and legend of turn-of-the century Mt. Carmel. No index.

Ingram CONFEDERATE VETERANS OF ABBEVILLE CO $25.00 102 pp ... From Enrollment Books which were taken about 1902. A transcription of 10 township books originally produced in cursive writing. Names, regiment, brigade, arm of service, rank, age, living or dead (in 1902), and other remarks. Almost 3000 entries. Indexed.

Posted March 9, 1999

Burns LIFE OF ANNE CALHOUN MATHEWS... $10.00 32 pp (18 May 1755--19 December 1830). Includes Colquhoun/Calhoun lineage: 1190 forward. A compilation of the captivity stories of her stay with the Native Americans. The author annotated the similarities, differences, and errors of fact appearing in 3 sources: a 1902 typescript from library of USC; an article from 1876 issue of Abbeville Press & Banner; and a typescript based on an interview with one of her grandnieces appearing in The Atlanta Journal.

Carlisle HISTORY OF LOWNDESVILLE, SC $32.50 At long last, the publisher says we will have delivery in two weeks on this long awaited book.

STANDARD CHARGES: SHIPPING $4 FOR FIRST BOOK,$1 FOR SUBSEQUENT ONES. GEORGIA RESIDENTS MUST PAY APPROPRIATE SALES TAX.

The HIstory of Lowndesville, S.C. available from The Reprint Co., Publishers; PO 5401; Spartanburg, SC 29304 - 864-579-4433 is about to come off the presses. Lowndesville is in Abbeville Co. near the Anderson Co. line. This book contains business, church and school records, fed census for abbeville co 1840-1910, records of Confederate service by men of the area, cemetary surveys for Providence, Ridge and Smyrna Cemeteries. Early photos and maps and brief sketches of the following families: Allen, Arnold, Baker, Barnes, Baskin, Bowman-Oliver, Caldwell, Carlile, Clinkscales, Cozby, DuPre, Finch, Fleming, Fell, Ellis, Hall, Harper, Huckabee, Hutchinson, Kay, Latimer, Loftis, McCalla, Mecklin, Moseley, Parnell, Lewis, Nixon, Pressly, Shackleford, Speer, Wilson, and Young. Cost $32.50 + $3.50 Shipping and 5% ST for SC residences.

The book covers the early Scots-Irish pioneers; the Long Cane Massacre and the Cherokee War; the Londonborough settlement of German Palatines on Hard Labor Creek (including ship lists); migration of Loyalists to Nova Scotia; African-American beginnings and influence; the American Revolution; Dr. Moses Waddel's Willington Academy; the execution by fire of Jerry, a slave; the life of George Mc Duffie, orator of Nullification; Billy Dorn's Gold Mine; the life of Unionist champion James Louis Petigru; the Confederate Revolution and the Reconstruction; the hanging of innocent Samuel Banks; the murder of John and Catherine Harmon at Winter Seat; the lynching of six slaves; a history of McCormick County newspapers; and much more!

This important history book is available by mail from Cedar Hill Unltd., Route 1, Box 2, McCormick, SC 29835 for $40, which includes sales tax, postage and handling.

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