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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 South Carolina Department of Archives and History. "The Formation of Counties in South Carolina". South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ Frederick A. Porcher: "Historical and Social Sketch of Craven County, So. Ca." in The Southern Quarterly Review, April, 1852; reprinted in Thomas T. Gaillard: A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina, New York, 1887. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1887. 52 pp.
- ↑ Anne Baker, Leland Bridges, and Roy Williams III: St. James Santee, Plantation Parish, History and Records, 1685-1925, Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1997.
- ↑ Thomas Cooper: The Statutes at Large of South Carolina', Volume 4, Containing the Acts from 1752, Exclusive, to 1786, Inclusive. Columbia, S.C.: A. S. Johnston, 1838. Vol. 4, pp. 662-663.