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I am Pat
Sabin, County Coordinator for the Dorchester
County SCGenWeb Project. I also host the
Colleton and Bamberg County SCGenWeb sites.
My
"lowcountry" families include Ayer, Byrd, Gavin,
Hughes, Raysor, Risher, Stokes, and related
families. My contribution to the Dorchester County SCGenWeb site is in maintaining the project site. If you have any documents, such as wills, deeds, Bible records, old letters, groups photos, church histories, etc., please consider submitting them to the Dorchester County SCGenWeb Project to share with other "seekers." PLEASE NOTE: I do not live in South Carolina, and regret to say that I am unable to help with personal genealogy research unless it coincides with my own family research. I upload information as it is received from volunteers, and everything I have is on this site. Please let me know if you would like to register your surnames. I recommend that you post queries on the RootsWeb/Ancestry and the GenForum (Genealogy.Com) forums linked below. The USGenWeb Project began in 1996 as a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. The Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well. The SCGenWeb is a member of the USGenWeb Project. Read about the History of the USGenWeb Project. BRIEF HISTORY OF DORCHESTER
COUNTY Dorchester County was named for Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1696 Congregationalists migrated from Dorchester, Massachusetts to South Carolina, establishing a new settlement called Dorchester. The original town had been abandoned by 1788, but the parish continued to refer to it as St. George Dorchester. The area of modern Dorchester County was, in 1710,
part of the old Colleton and Berkeley Districts.
In 1769 it became part of the Orangeburgh and
Charleston Districts. In 1801 it was
incorporated into the new Colleton County.
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How to Get Started in Your Dorchester County Research |
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| Lookup Volunteers | Surname
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| Dorchester Photo Album | Dorchester Places & Towns |
| African
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Genealogy Dorchester, Colleton & Bamberg Counties |
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| Dorchester Co Queries | How You Can Contribute to the Dorchester County SCGenWeb! |
| David Gavin Diary |
.Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns |
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Link to Upper Dorchester County Historical Society NEWS, SEPT. 2013:
Our society is hosting a "Historic Homes & Sites Tour" on Saturday, November 2, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Last year the tour featured the Badham Mansion (only downstairs) that had never been opened to the public before. This year's tour will include the entire house. The upstairs is remarkable. It is the living quarters and features a maze of rooms and 5 balconies. One overlooks the front of the property and 4 are actually antique bathrooms, suspended from air hanging over the 2 side porches. The walls, ceiling and floors are built of walnut, mahogany and pine. Stained glass is featured in windows and door panels and the radiators used to steam heat the house in earlier days are prevalent throughout the house. All proceeds will be used on a growing list of historic needs. Tickets are $15 per person, children 15 and under are free if accompanied with an adult. Tickets can be purchased in advance through our website: http://www.upperdorchestercountyhistoricalsociety.com. Bill Blakely has shared photographs of the sites on the tour. Please click on link below to view the photographs and brief histories of the sites. UDCHS Tour of Historic Sites NEWS, MAY 2012: Memorial Stones-Cemetery Inscriptions of Upper Dorchester County, has been published and is ready to sell. It is a beautiful hard-bound book that includes 153 cemeteries with over 15,000 inscriptions recorded. Also included in this publication are several cemeteries in Colleton County (oldest along the Edisto River) and two from Orangeburg County. The
book has been broken down into Townships and all
cemeteries within the township are listed in
alphabetical order. Under the cemetery name are
listed: surnames, first name, birth and death date,
relationship (e.g. husband of, wife of, son of, etc.)
and other pertinent information (e.g.
minister, veteran, physician, etc.) are included.
Information for ordering this and other publications on THIS PAGE.
Pat Sabin, County
Coordinator Pat's
Place © 2001-2014 Pat Sabin for the Dorchester
County SCGenWeb If you are interesting
in adopting a county with the SCGenWeb Project,
contact the SCGenWeb State Coordinator, Victoria Proctor
. You'll find
County Coordinator guidelines at The
USGenWeb
Project .
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