This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IeB.2ACI/128.1 Message Board Post: To the best of my knowledge there is not a Washington in Beaufort County, South Carolina; however, there is a Washington in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Washington is the county seat of Beaufort County, North Carolina. Beaufort is the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina. (Beaufort, NC is in Carteret County.)