Laurens County S.C.

This volume contains abstracts of the South Carolina Journal Petitions for Land South Carolina Colonial Surveys and Memorials of Land Titles with chains of title marriage data and many lost pieces of information that will assist researchers in this area of Laurens County SC. These land deeds present new research aids to follow the out-migration of families-including many of the earliest land transactions powers of attorney and last will and testaments-as deeds of gift to family members are found. Ordinarily Rabun Creek marriages went unrecorded and are difficult to locate but they also show up in these deeds as dower rights and prior marriages. Complete with name and place indexes this pioneering work identifies thousands of ancestors with connections to Rabun Creek prior to 1848.