South Carolina Culpepper Archives
Carteret County (1685-1708)
Granville County (1708-1769, 1785-1798
History
Carteret County was
formed in 1685 as one of the four original proprietary counties. (The
others being Berkeley,
Colleton and Craven.) It
roughly spanned the southwestern corner of Carolina Low Country that is
the location today of Beaufort,
Jasper and Hampton
counties. In 1708, Carteret was renamed Granville. In 1769 the four
proprietary counties (Craven,
Berkeley, Colleton
and Granville) were abolished in favor of seven new Judicial Districts,
with Beaufort District taking the area
formerly occupied by Granville County. Then in 1785, Granville, along
with Hilton, Lincoln
and Shrewsbury, became counties of the
Beaufort District, but these counties never became functional and were all abolished in 1798.
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with a person in the Culpepper family tree. If you can identify any of
them,
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Census Records
1790 US Census
