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Colleton is referred to as a "burned" county, since our court documents were apparently sent from Walterboro by wagons to Columbia, SC, in early 1865, for "safe-keeping" were destroyed. They were said either (a) to have sunk into a swollen river on the way there, or (b) to have burned when Sherman's troops celebrated by torching Columbia? In any case, our equity (probate) and land titles, deeds, conveyances, plats, detailed court accounts and testimonies for years 1799 to 1865 have never been seen again.
However, the court docket ledgers for 1801, and for many of the years between then and 1849, have turned up recently. Some were apparently placed in the courthouse basement in poor conditions for nearly a century, then moved to other sites. A few pages showed up in the SC Archives; two complete ledgers appeared in the Colleton Courthouse under other things 2 years ago; and now numerous portions of ledgers have been located in closets of county facilities. We now have a chance to copy and collate the fragile, disintegrating pages into a useful list of thousands of Colleton District people. Work is underway to read and type these fading names and dates to spreadsheets for indexing.
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