Robert South Carolina didn't require marriage lic. until modern times. Check out Bill Storey & Anne K. McCuen, GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM GREENVILLE COUNTY, SC: THE EARLIEST MINUTE BOOKS OF TEN BAPTIST CHURCHES 1794-1850. pub. 1992. I found no marriage records in these minutes for my ancestors. Early newspaper accounts are your best bet for marriage records, i.e. Brent Holcomb's books and Simpson & Barham, SOME SC MARRIAGES & OBITUARIES AND MSC. INFORMATION 1826-1854 ABSTRACTED FROM EARLY NEWSPAPERS THE GREENVILLE REPUBLICAN, THE GREENVILLE MOUNTAINEER, THE LAURENSVILLE HERALD, 1978. peggy Does anyone know anything abou the Primitive Baptist Churches that were located in the Greenville District between 1790 - 1810? What were the names of these churches and were any of them close to the Saluda River, especially near the North Fork of the Saluda River? > I'm trying to tract down the Primitive Baptist Church my ancestors attended > to see what records may be available during this time frame. I'm especially > interested in any Marriage records these churches might have kept since > Greenville County never recorded Marriages until the 20th century.. Robert C. Johnston, Jr.