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In several cases there are marriage settlement records found at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History or in the records of the probate court of many counties. Marriage settlements were legal agreements, primarily made by women who had been married previously. These records were kept from the 1760s to the 1880s. Recording these documents with the Secretary of State became law in 1785. The Family History Library has some of these records, South Carolina Marriage Settlements, 1785 to 1889, from the Department of Archives and History.