Large holdings were divided into farms. There was much traffic across the Savannah River with Augusta, Georgia. Deed books concern land conveyances but also contain powers of attorney, depositions, bills of sale and other documents. Occasionally, deeds explain family relationships. Chains of titles may show why land was passed from one owner to another.
Some deeds mention other places of residence.
This book abstracts four deed books. Almost 2,000 handwritten pages are here reduced to 157 pages that retain all dates and names of persons, watercourses and places. A bicentennial edition of the United States Federal Census for 1790. Between 1906 and 1908 the Government printing office published the surviving records of the first federal census of 1790 in volumes for each state. Today, most of these records and even their reprints are out of print and inaccessible except through use in research libraries and archives.