Colonial Plat Books (Copy Series), 1731-1775
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223
Contact information: phone number
001 803 896 6196
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
Reference number
S 213184
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Colonial Plat Books (Copy Series), 1731-1775
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Surveyor General's Office
Date(s)
1731/1775
Language(s)
eng
Extent
26 volumes and 15 microfilm reels
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This series forms part of the Surveyor General's Office of the Secretary of State records and consists of copies of earlier recordings of plats for colonial land grants. The plats are scale drawings and show the scale to which they were drawn; names of the proposed grantees; acreage; boundaries; boundary markers; natural features; improvements, if any; the names of any surrounding landowners; and the names of the surveyors. Roads, creeks, branches, swamps, and the like are named.
The plats include their certificates of admeasurement, containing the date of the precept from the surveyor general ordering the survey and the date of the surveyor's certificate of admeasurement.
Some plats record land pertaining to Sephardic Jews, such as Isaac da Costa (e.g., vol. 6, p. 180; and vol. 8, p. 470: 250 acres on Stephens Creek, April 20, 1755, January 1, 1759; vol. 9, p. 17: 900 acres in Berkley County, December 23, 1766; vol. 14, p. 298: 150 acres in Craven County, July 21, 1773; vol. 14, p. 299: 350 acres in Colleton County, July 26, 1773) and Moses Lindo (e.g., vol. 8, p. 495: 700 acres on Cureltaile Branch, August 20, 1763).
The plats include their certificates of admeasurement, containing the date of the precept from the surveyor general ordering the survey and the date of the surveyor's certificate of admeasurement.
Some plats record land pertaining to Sephardic Jews, such as Isaac da Costa (e.g., vol. 6, p. 180; and vol. 8, p. 470: 250 acres on Stephens Creek, April 20, 1755, January 1, 1759; vol. 9, p. 17: 900 acres in Berkley County, December 23, 1766; vol. 14, p. 298: 150 acres in Craven County, July 21, 1773; vol. 14, p. 299: 350 acres in Colleton County, July 26, 1773) and Moses Lindo (e.g., vol. 8, p. 495: 700 acres on Cureltaile Branch, August 20, 1763).
Archival history
This series is a duplicate set of the original recordings of plats for colonial land grants. This set was prepared for use in the Columbia office of the Surveyor General. After moving the state's capital to Columbia in 1789, the Surveyor General maintained offices in Columbia and Charleston. The Charleston office retained the original plat books. An attempt to copy the land records between 1789 and 1792 failed to duplicate the colonial plat books. A December 15, 1819 resolution of the General Assembly created a commission to supervise the copying of the records of the Surveyor General. The commission contracted with Surveyor General Daniel Tillinghast to create the copies.
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Access, restrictions
Digital copies are available online:
Finding aids
All personal names and all geographic features on these plats are included in the repository's On-line Combined Index to Multiple Record Series, 1675-1929. These access terms are also available on a separate four-reel computer output microfilm (COM) index to this series produced by the repository in 1979 and in the Combined Alphabetical Index produced by the repository on computer output microfilm in 1991.
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Existence and location of copies
Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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