St. James Santee Parish, South Carolina

United States   South Carolina    St. James Santee Parish

History
St. James Santee Parish serves Charleston.

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

Founded

 * 1706

Boundary

 * Borders Christ Church, Prince Frederick, Prince George, St. Stephen's, St. Thomas &amp; St. Denis parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina.

Cemetery
The parish church's cemetery graves are transcribed in Bridges (see below).

Church History
For a history of the parish, see Chapter 9, St. James' Parish, Santee, pages 295-302, 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.

Church Records
In the 1960s, the parish kept its registers at the church. Copies:. Births and christenings dated 1758 to 1788 are indexed on the IGI. Published abstracts:


 * Bridges, Anne B. and Roy Williams. St. James Santee Plantation Parish [South Carolina] History &amp; records, 1685-1925. Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Co., 1997.
 * South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 17.