Richland County, SC Early Records

Richland County, SC formed in 1785 from Camden District

From South Carolina State Archives
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Series: S390008
Year: 1819
Item: 00016
Page: 000
Date: 5/18/1819

Description: LETTER, FROM JOHN S. COGDILL, COMPTROLLER GENERAL, TO BENJAMIN T. ELMORE, TREASURER OF THE UPPER DIVISION, ENCLOSING A LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANNUITANTS ON THE BOOKS OF THE LOWER DIVISION, AND DISCUSSING THE SETTLEMENT OF FREE SCHOOL AND JUROR ACCOUNTS FOR RICHLAND DISTRICT. (4/4 PAGES)

Names indexed: BARNES, MRS.; BLACK, JAMES A.; BROWN, MRS. MEYER S.; CARTER, WILLIAM; COGDILL, JOHN S.; DAVIS, ELEANOR; EHNEY, CATHERINE; ELMORE, BENJANIN T.; GOWAN, MARY; HAGAN, PHEABE; HARWOOD, MARY; JAY, ANN; KER, JOSEPH; KNOWLTON, GRANT; LEE, SIMON; LOONEY, JOHN; MARTIN, MARGARET; MCFARLANE, MARY; MILLS, MARGARET; MOORE, JANE; MORTON, MARY; REARDON, JANE; ROBERTS, ASHER; ROBERTS, JOHN; ROGERS, ROBERT; TYLER, BENJAMIN

Locations: RICHLAND DISTRICT
Document type: LETTER
Topics: AMERICAN REVOLUTION; COMPTROLLER GENERAL; FREE SCHOOLS; JURORS; PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES; TREASURER OF LOWER DIVISION; TREASURER OF UPPER DIVISION

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1820 Richland Co., SC Census
Gowing, John Age 26-45 310010 20010

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1830 Richland Co., SC Census
Going, Elizabeth Age 40-50
Gun, Jno Age 40-50 w/female age 80-90 living with him

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1840, Richland Co., SC Census
Goings, Betsy Age 50-60
Goings, John Age 50-60
Goings, John Jr. Age 20-30
Gowings, Elizabeth Age 50-60
Gowings, Gilberry Age 20-30

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From South Carolina State Archives
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Series: S108093
Reel: 0013
Frame: 00556
Item: 000
Date: 1/8/1846

Description: CLEVELAND, JEREMIAH SR. OF GREENVILLE DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (3 FRAMES) (MSS WILL: WILL BOOK C, PAGES 192-197; ESTATE PACKET: APT 10, FILE 39).

Names indexed: ABRAHAM (SLAVE); ANN (SLAVE); BAWKINS, BENJAMIN F.; BETTY (SLAVE); BLASINGAME, WILLIAM; BRUMMIT; CHARLES, JOHN; CHOICE, CAROLINA; CHOICE, I.; CHOICE, WILLIAM; CHOICE, WILLIAM JR.; CLEVELAND, BARNES F.; CLEVELAND, BURNET F.; CLEVELAND, JAMES H.; CLEVELAND, JAMES SMITH; CLEVELAND, JEREMIAH; CLEVELAND, JEREMIAH SR.; CLEVELAND, ROBERT M.; CLEVELAND, SARAH; CLEVELAND, WILLIAM CHOICE; CLEVELEND, JESSE F.; CULBERTSON, WILLIAM; DAWINNS, ELIZA; DAYS, DAVID; DUNHAM, B.; EDEY (SLAVE); GABRIEL (SLAVE); GOWEN, JOHN; HOLLOWAY, GROVE; JAMES, DANIEL; JESSE (SLAVE); LEWIS, MARY; LOVELAND, R.; MCDANIEL, JAMES; MCJUNKIN, GEORGE; MOLLY (SLAVE); MOSES (SLAVE); NICOL, A.; PAYNE, AARON; PUNCH (SLAVE); SALMON, GEORGE; SAM (SLAVE); SLYVA (SLAVE); SMITH, MICAJAH; THOMPSON, CHRISTIAN; THOMPSON, WADDY SR.; TONEY, WILLIAM; WESTFIELD, DAVID; WILEY (SLAVE); WILLIAMS, D. THOMAS; WILLIS (SLAVE)

Locations: AVENUE STREET (GREENVILLE); BEDFORD COUNTY, TENN.; GREENVILLE; GREENVILLE DISTRICT; GROVE CREEK; MIDDLE SALUDA RIVER; REEDY RIVER; RICHLAND CREEK; SOUTH TYGER RIVER; TENNESSEE
Document type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
Topics: SLAVES, NAMED

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Will of Joel Medlin Junr.

State of South Carolina
I Joel Medlin Junr. of Richland District and State aforesaid do makeand ordain this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making Void all former wills hereto fore made by me – As to such Property as it hath pleased God to entrust to me I dispose of as follows.
First – I hereby give and bequeath unto my father Joel Medlin Sen. all my real and personal estate in trust for the use and purpose herein and hereafter mentioned.
Second- It is my will and desire that my executor here after mentioned shall as soon as possible after my death out of the first money that comes into his hands to pay all my debts and funeral expenses.
Third- It is my will and desire that my father Joel Medlin Sen. Shall after all my just debts are paid to make a neat calculation of the property of his estate that is coming to me and divide it equall between Priscila Daily and Charlotte Daily the two oldest daughters of Mary ann Daily’s that they may share and share alike in the said property that is coming from my Father Joel Medlin Sen. to me.
Fourth – It is my will and desire that my executor hereafter to be mentioned shall collect all debts that are due me and divide the proceeds equally between the said Pricila Daily and Charlotte Daily eldest daughters of Mary ann Daily’s retaining in his hand five dollars which it is my will and desire that he pay unto or give unto my lawful wife living
Fifth- I hereby appoint and ordain my father Joel Medlin senr. Executor of this my last will and testament to carry into execution the foregoing will In testimony thereof I have this day set my hand and Seal this twenty eight of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fortyseven and the seventy second year of the American Independence.

Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of us who have subscribed our names hereunto in the presence of each other and in the presence of the testator
John Johnson
James Goins –x- His mark
Sary Goins –x- mark
John J. Johnson
Joel Medlin Junr. qualified-

State of South Carolina
Richland District
Probate of Joel Medlin Junr. Will By James S Guignard Esquire, Ordinary of said District Personally appeared before me John J. Johnson and James Goins who, being duly sworn, made oath and saith, that they saw Joel Medlin Junior. saidn, seal, publish, pronounce, and declare, the annexed instrument of writing, bearing date the twenty Eighth day of November 1847 to be and contain his last will and Testament that he the said Joel Medlin Junior was then of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding, according to the best of Deponents knowledge and belief, and that the said John J. Johnson and James Goins with John Johnson, and Sary Goins at the request of the Testator in his presence, and in the presence of each other witnessed the due execution thereof.
John J. Johnson
James X (his mark) Goins

Sworn to and subscribed before me this fifteenth day of July A. D. 1848
James S. Guignard.
Recorded in Will Book L—Page 91—Box 51 ---Package 01264


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1850 The District, Richland Co., SC Census

Dwelling 174, Family 177
Goins, Anderson 27 M SC

Dwelling 433, Family 441
Goens, Sarah 40 F SC
Goens, Elizabeth 17 F SC
Goens, Ainsley 12 M SC
Goens, Emeline 4 F SC
Goens, William 2 M SC

Dwelling 438, Family 446
Goens, John 63 M NC
Goens, James 23 M SC
Goens, Anna 18 F SC
Goens, Rebecca 15 F SC
Goens, Ransom 2 M SC

Dwelling 440, Family 448
Goens, John 38 M SC
Goens, Cynthia 35 F SC
Goens, Henry 10 M SC
Goens, Eliza 8 F SC
Goens, Martha 6 F SC
Goens, Lewis 5 M SC

Dwelling 455, Family 463
Goens, William 30 M SC
Goens, Sylvia 60 F SC

Dwelling 850, Family 860
Goings, McGilvery 38 M SC
Goings, Sarah 37 F SC
Goings, Wesley 17 M SC
Goings, Edward 15 M SC
Goings, Harriet 13 F SC
Goings, Sarah 11 F SC
Goings, Susan 9 F SC

Lunatic Asylum, Columbia, Richland, SC
Goings, Nelson 48 M Planter Insane SC
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From South Carolina State Archives
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=281267

Series: S165005
Year: 1858
Item: 00313
Page: 000
Date: 11/30/1858

Description: COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS, REPORT AND SUPPORTING PAPERS ON THE ACCOUNT OF DR. J. MCFADDEN GASTON FOR SERVICES RENDERED PRISONERS IN JAIL. (8 PAGES)

Names indexed: ADAMS; BUTLER; FERGUSON; GASTON, J. MCFADDEN; GLADDEN; GLAZE, DAVID; GOINGS, JAMES; HENDERSON; HILLER; JUSTICE, ELIZABETH; KELLY, THOMAS; RABB, JESSE; THOMSON, THOMAS; WILSON, M. L.; WILSON, MARY

Locations: RICHLAND DISTRICT
Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Topics: CLAIMS, COMMITTEE ON; PRISONERS, MEDICAL SERVICES
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From: South Carolina State Archives
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=281721

Series: S165005
Year: 1859
Item: 00282
Page: 000
Date: 12/15/1859

Description: MEDICAL COMMITTEE, REPORT AND SUPPORTING PAPERS ON THE ACCOUNT OF DR. GASTON AND DR. TALLEY FOR MEDICAL SERVICES RENDERED PRISONERS IN THE RICHLAND DISTRICT JAIL CHIEFLY DEALING WITH VENEREAL DISEASES. (6 PAGES)

Names indexed: BEARD, FRANCIS; BEARD, SAMUEL; CORLEY, MICHAEL; GASTON, DR.; GOINGS, JAMES; KELLY, THOMAS; MOORE, JOHN; MULLER, GERHARD; TALLEY, ALEXANDER N.; THOMAS, WILLIAM; WAGES, MARY; WAGES, ROSE

Locations: RICHLAND DISTRICT
Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Topics: DISEASES; MEDICAL COMMITTEE; PRISONERS, MEDICAL SERVICES; SHERIFF OF RICHLAND DISTRICT
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From South Carolina State Archives

Date: 1861/01/24
Description: MEDICAL COMMITTEE, REPORT AND SUPPORTING ACCOUNTS REJECTING MOST OF THE CLAIMS FROM DR. J. W. POWELL AND DR. W. L. TEMPLETON FOR POSTMORTEM EXAMINATIONS AND MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDED PRISONERS IN RICHLAND DISTRICT. (10/10 PAGES)

Names Indexed: POWELL, J. W./MILLER, J. D./TEMPLETON, W. L./HUGGINS, L./GOINS, EDWARD/MEANS, JOHN H./HENRY (SLAVE)/HUNT, H. W./HANOVER (SLAVE)/HICKEY, CORNELIUS/MARSHALL, WILLIAM/FERGUSON, P. J./THOMAS, P./SMITH, MITCHELL V./MANISH, HIRAM/STEWART, ANN S./BEARD, SAMUEL/KELLER, JOSEPH A.

Locations: RICHLAND DISTRICT/
Type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE/
Topics: AUTOPSIES/PRISONERS, MEDICAL SERVICES/MEDICAL COMMITTEE

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From South Carolina State Archives
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=309712

Series: S192021
Volume: 0022
Page: 00045
ignore: 000
Date: 1869
Description: MILITIA ENROLLMENTS OF MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 30 FOR RICHLAND COUNTY.

Names indexed: DRANDRY, ALBERT R.; DRANDRY, GASTON G.; DRANDRY, WADE H.; DUBARD, THOMAS; DUBOIS, R. M.; EDWARDS, JOHN; EICHELBERGER, HENRY; ELIZER, ALLSTON; ELKINS, CHARLEY; ENTZMINGER, JAMES; FAITH, BURRELL; FANN, R. W.; FIELDS, LAZARUS Jr.; FORD, GEORGE; FROST, E.; GADSDEN, ALFRED; GAILLIARD, NAT; GAILLIARD, PAUL; GIBBES, EDMOND; GOINS, WILLIAM; GOODWYN, WILLIAM; GRADICK, WILLIAM; GRAHAM, FRANK; GREEN, ELIAS; GREEN, JUNE; GREEN, RICHARD; GREEN, WILLIS; GRIFFIN, J. D.; GRINGO, C.; HAGLER, JAMES; HAMITER, D. J.; HAMITER, SAMUEL; HAWKINS, PETER; HAWTHORN, JACOB; HILL, TIMON; HOLLY, JOHN; HOLMES, NATHAN; HOWELL, THOMAS; JAMES, IVEY; JOHNSON, ANDERSON; JOHNSON, HARRY; JOHNSON, SANCHO; JONES, F.; JONES, J. H.

Locations: RICHLAND COUNTY

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From South Carolina State Archives
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Series: S192021
Volume: 0022
Page: 00025
ignore: 000
Date: 1869

Description: MILITIA ENROLLMENTS OF MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 30 FOR RICHLAND COUNTY.

Names indexed: GARDNER, CHARLES; GARDNER, EDWARD; GARDNER, JOHN; GARDNER, SAM; GAREY, CLAIBORNE; GAREY, SIMPSON; GLENN, GEORGE; GOODWYN, HENRY; GOPBEL, HAMAN; GOWAN, P. W.; GREEN, BRIGGS; GRIGSBERRY, ROBERT; HALL, HENRY; HANS, JESSE; HARRIS, O. J.; HENDLEY, J.; HENDRIX, DAVID; HENRY, JOHN; HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM; JACKSON, L.; JANNEY, C. F.; JOHNSON, CORNELIUS; JOHNSON, HENRY; JOHNSON, L.; JOHNSON, SILAS; JOHNSON, WILLIAM; JONES, DAVID; JORDAN, HENRY; KAPAN, M.; KENNEDY, DAVID; KLINBECK, J. H.; KLINKSCALES, W. F.; KREAMER, WILLIAM; LADD, CAPTAIN; LECONTE, WILLIAM; LEE, CHRISTOPHER; LEE, SPENCER; LEMONS, JACK; LYNCH, JOHN Jr.; MARTIN, WESLEY; MCMAHON, RICHARD; MILLER, JAMES; MITCHELL, FRANK; MITCHELL, WILLIAM

Locations: COLUMBIA; COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP; RICHLAND COUNTY