Winyah is the present-day Georgetown, SC area...I think it was known as Prince Fredericks Parish, Winyah in the early 1700s. Ervin & Betty Shaw poptop@usit.net Lexington, S. C. my web site http://www.public.usit.net/poptop photo at office http://www.lexmed.com/medical.htm ---------- >From: Aadonis5@cs.com >To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCSUMTER-L] Winyan County >Date: Tue, Feb 29, 2000, 9:52 PM > >Ok. I hope I have the right list now. Does anyone know anything about Winyan >county? I found it in the 1800 census index. One of my cousins said they know >of a winyan city between Charltes and myrtle beach. Is this the same area? >Has the name Winyan as the county changed? If so what is the new name? > >I've noticed a very large population of blacks owned by whites with one of >our family names in that county. > >Any info would be appreciated. > >Felisza > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >