Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina

United States South Carolina  Prince Frederick Parish

Prince Frederick Parish was parish created in 1734 from an inland part of Craven County.

Before 1785, Prince Frederick Parish served the former Craven County and later Georgetown District.

Prince Frederick's once took up a large area of South Carolina, but by 1790 this parish (as well as Prince George's to the east) took up all or parts of six present-day South Carolina counties: Williamsburg, Florence, Marion, Dillon, Horry and Georgetown. Also known as Old Prince Frederick Winea.

In addition to religious roles, South Carolina's "Anglican parishes were used as election districts and had responsibility for road development, care of the poor, and education."

Founded

 * 1734

Boundary

 * Borders All Saints, Prince George, St. David's, St. James Santee, St. Mark's, and St. Stephen's parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

Cemetery

 * Altman, Eunice and Flora B. Surles. Georgetown County, Epitaphs of Prince Frederick's Parish, Pee Dee, 1749-1896 W.P.A. Project 2004. Typescript, South Caroliniana Library, 1937.

John Green's survey of Old Prince Frederick Episcopal Church Cemetery (2004) is available online at SCGenWeb. See also Old Gunn Church Cemetery (Prince Fredericks).

Parish History
For a history of the parish, see Chapter 10, Prince Frederick's Parish, pages 319-321, in:


 * Dalcho, Frederick. An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina from the First Settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution; with Notices of the Present State of the Church in Each Parish and Some Account of the Early Civil History of Carolina, Never Before Published. Charleston: E. Thayer, 1820. ; digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive.

Parish Records
The original parish registers are kept at [blank], South Carolina. Abstracts of baptisms from 1713 to 1794 and marriages from 1726 to 1752 have been published:


 * Prince Frederick Parish and Prince George Parish. The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw, Ann: Dom: 1713. Baltimore: Williams &amp; Wilkins, 1916. ; digital version at Internet Archive.

Marriage register are also abstracted in:


 * Holcomb, Brent H. and Thomas L. Hollowak. South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980.

Taxation
A partial 1756 tax return for Prince Frederick Parish survives. It is kept in the Maps and Muniments section of the South Carolina Historical Society, and, according to Morgan, describes "69 taxpayers, 702 slaves, and 44,129 acres of land."

Some tax return from the 1780s survive and have been published:


 * [1784] "1784 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 1975):201-206.
 * [1786] "1786 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 1983):33-39.

Websites

 * Prince George Winyah Parish / Prince Frederick's Parish Marker, The Historical Marker Database