St. Michaels Parish, South Carolina

United States   South Carolina    St. Michael's Parish

History
St. Michael's Parish serves Charleston.

Built on the site of St. Philip's Parish Church in Charleston, which was destroyed by a hurricane in 1710.

Founded

 * 1751

Boundary

 * Borders St. Andrew's, St. James Goose Creek, and St. Philip's parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

Research Guides

 * South Carolina Archives Summary Guide: St. Philip's and St. Michael's Parishes, available online, courtesy: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Cemetery

 * Jervey, Clare. Inscriptions on the Tablets and Gravestones in St. Michael's Church and Churchyard, Charleston, S.C. To Which is Added from the Church Records a List of Interments of Persons to Whom There are No Stones. Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, Publishers, 1906. Digital version at Google Books.

More than 600 of the cemetery's graves are described at Find A Grave. Includes transcripts and select photographs.

Parish History
For an early history of the parish, see Chapter 4, St. Michael's Church, pages 165-243, 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.

Beesley's guide is on Ancestry:


 * Beesley, Charles Norbury. Beesley's Illustrated Guide to St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. Charleston, S.C.: Presses of Southern Print. &amp; Pub. Co., c1939. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Additional histories:


 * Williams, George W. St. Michael's, Charleston, 1751-1951. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951.

Parish Records
A variety of records were kept about St. Michael's Parish, including: list of pew holders, minutes, accounts, and burials. They were still held at the church in 1952. Copies:. Some of the records have been abstracted:


 * The Minutes of St. Michael's Church of Charleston, S.C., from 1758-1797. Abstracted by South Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America, Historical Activities Committee.

Websites

 * St. Michael's Church - The Historic Church located in Charleston, SC (official site)
 * St. Michael's Episcopal Church Marker, The Historical Marker Database