South Carolina Colonial Records

Online Records

 * [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/380975?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1716-1732- Court Records. South Carolina (Colony) Court of Vice-admiralty. Images only.
 * 1716-1789- Pre-federal Admiralty Court records, province and state of South Carolina, 1716-1789. Images only.

History
Charleston, established by British settlers in 1670, was the first permanent settlement in the Carolinas. Prior to the settlement of Charleston, attempts to settle were made by French Huguenots and Spaniards. In 1669, the Fundamental Orders were written, making the Anglican Church to be the official church. In 1706, the Carolinas was divided into 12 parishes, and in 1712 it was divided into the two provinces of North and South Carolina. South Carolina officialy became a royal colony of Great Britain in 1719.

Resources

 * [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/198266?availability=Family%20History%20Library Records of the Court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779 by Anne King Gregorie. (Washington, D.C. : American Historical Association, 1950).
 * Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood. (New York, New York : Knopf, 1974).
 * Colonial and Revolutionary history of upper South Carolina by J. B. O. Landrum. (Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2013).
 * Colonial forts of South Carolina, 1670-1775 by Larry E. Ivers. (Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1970).