Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette 1732-1775

While the contents of the death notices in this work vary each one nonetheless furnishes the individual's name place of death (which was by no means limited to Charleston) date of death and date of the newspaper. In many instances however the notices tell us of the decedent's spouse children or other family members something of the individual's livelihood and character the cause of death and other interesting details. In all the two indexes refer to 1500 persons and places figuring in the colonial history of South Carolina.