Thank you! This is very informative. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: <URQ5@aol.com> To: <SC-Genealogy-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [SC] Question Regarding South Carolina Boundaries > << Although I don't think SC and NC had any boundary shifts circa 1830. >> > > Greetings from SC. Originally, SC & NC were one geographic unit, the province > of Carolina. Although the lines were drawn for separation in the 1700's , > there was some refinement of the boundaries (& resulting confusion) into the > 1800's. > > I find the following information on boundaries in Dr. Walter Edgar's book > "South Carolina: A History" (USC Press, Columbia, SC, 1998). This is a must- > have book for SC researchers. > > Hope this will be of interest to some fo you-- > URQ > > p. 1 > "When Charles II of England granted a second charter to eight Lords > Proprietors in 1665, the boundaries of Carolina stretched from ...(the > southern border of Virginia) to ... about fifteen miles due south of Daytona > Beach) and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Within those boundaries were... > all or portions of fifteen states and northern Mexico." > > p. 3 [paraphrased from Dr. Edgar's book] > Boundary lines were agreed upon in 1735 but surveying errors occurred in 1737 > & 1764 placing the border 11 miles south of where it should have been. The > final line was set in 1815 (except for a dispute with Georgia that was > resolved by the Supreme Court in 1990). > > > ==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== > South Carolina GenForum Page > http://genforum.genealogy.com/sc/ > > >