A lot of Americans of African descent came to South Carolina. Listed here are some of the counties that they ended up in.
In the colonial period, the land around the cost was divided into parishes corresponding to the parishes of the Church of England.
The Ninety-six District was created on July 29, 1769, as the most western of the seven original districts within the Province of South Carolina. Its boundaries included the current Abbeville, McCormick, Edgefield, Saluda, Greenwood, Laurens, Union and Spartanburg counites; much of Cherokee and Newberry counties; and small parts of Aiken and Greenville counties.
