St. Bartholomews Parish, South Carolina

United States South Carolina  St. Bartholomew's Parish

Also known as St. Bartholomew's Ashepoo in Edmundsbury (now Ashepoo). After moving to Pon Pon (now Jacksonboro) in 1725 it was also called the St. Bartholomew's Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, or the Old Burnt Church.

Before the American Revolution, the state church of South Carolina was the Church of England (also called the Anglican Church, and later the Protestant Episcopal Church). Besides keeping parish registers, the church kept many records of a civil nature in their vestry books. South Carolina's "Anglican parishes were also used as election districts and had responsibility for road development, care of the poor, and education."

Founded
St. Bartholomew's Parish was created as an original parish in 1706 from the southwest side of Colleton County. The original parish church was planned for Edmundsbury (now Ashepoo) until the Yemassee Indian War of 1715. In 1725 a new parish building was authorized in Pon Pon (now Jacksonboro) on the Fort Moore-Charleston Trail and was called the Pon Pon Chapel of Ease.

Boundary
Borders: St. Paul's, St. Andrew's 1706-1717, St. Helena's since 1712, St. George since 1717, St. John's Colleton since 1730, Prince William since 1745, and St. Matthew's since 1868 parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina. An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.

St. Bartholomew's Parish has served Charleston and Colleton counties, South Carolina. It also served residents of historic Charleston and Colleton districts. Edmundsbury (a.k.a. Ashepoo Chapel) and Pon Pon Chapel served parishioners as chapels of ease.

History

 * 1706-1715 Edmundsbury (Ashepoo) plans to build a church dropped because of an Indian War
 * 1725 Pon Pon (Jacksonboro) new wooden building authorized
 * 1753 Pon Pon new brick building ordered
 * 1754 Pon Pon brick building finished
 * 1785 Edmundsbury brick church built
 * 1786 Edmundsbury brick church declared unfit for use
 * 1801 Pon Pon church burnt, an thereafter called the "Burnt Church"
 * 1810 Edmundsbury brick church falls in ruins
 * 1819 Edmundsbury new brick chapel built
 * 1852 Edmundsbury chapel burnt
 * 1854 Edmundsbury chapel rebuilt
 * 1865 Edmundsbury chapel wrecked by Union troops

Research Guides

 * South Carolina Archives Summary Guide: St. Bartholomew's County, available online, courtesy: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Census

 * Mott, Beverly K. 1790 Census for St. Bartholomews Parish, Charleston District, South Carolina, available online, courtesy: SCGenWeb.
 * Jarrell, Lawrence E. Early Colleton, South Carolina Census. Complete Transcription of the Federal Census Records; 1790 Charleston District Census, St. Bartholomew's, St. George's-Dorchester; St. Paul's and St. John's-Colleton Parishes; 1800 Colleton District Census--St. Bartholomew's, St. George's-Dorchester and St. Paul's Parishes; 1810 Colleton District Census. High Point, N.C.: Alligator Creek Genealogy Publications, 1998.

Parish History
For an early history of the parish, see Chapter 21, St. Bartholomew's Parish, pages 366-374, 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.

See also:


 * Geiger, Florence Gambrill. "St. Bartholomew's Parish as Seen by Its Rectors, 1713-1761," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct. 1949):173-203. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

For a more modern history filled with illustrations, see:


 * Plantations of St. Bartholomew's Parish. Publisher's bookstore.

Parish Records
In the 1950s, the records of St. Bartholomew's Parish and Edmundbury Chapel were kept at the Bishop's office in St. Philip's Church, Charleston. St. Bartholomew's records include a history, minutes, and reports of various organizations. St. Bartholomew's copies: ; Edmundbury copies:.

Vestry Books

 * Fripp, William Henry. "Minutes of the Vestry, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1822-1840," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr. 1944):65-70; Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul. 1944):157-171; Vol. 45, No. 4 (Oct. 1944):217-221; Vol. 51, No. 1 (Jan. 1950):10-23; Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr. 1950):78-96; Vol. 51, No. 3 (Jul. 1950):145-163; Vol. 51, No. 4 (Oct. 1950):229-242. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Taxation

 * [1783] "1783 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall 1974):171-178.
 * [1784] "1784 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1975):178-182.
 * [1785] St. Bartholomew's Parish Tax Returns, 1785, The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 1977).
 * [1786] "1786 Tax Returns," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 1982):18-24; Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 1982):154-157.

Websites

 * Colleton County, South Carolina Early History, courtesy: SCGenWeb.
 * Edmundsbury Marker, The Historical Marker Database