Colleton County
Townships of 1868
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Koger - bounded west by Edisto
River, east by
Poke Swamp, north by Orangeburg Co - included Horse Pen Bridge (today -
part of Dorchester Co)
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George - bounded west by Poke Swamp,
east by Indian
Field Creek, South by Edisto River - included Canady's and Byrd (today
- part of Dorchester Co)
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Givhans - bounded west by Indian
Field Creek,
east by Four Hole Swamp (today - Dorchester Co)
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Carn - bounded east by Four Hole
Swamp, west by
road to Columbia, north by Orangeburg Co - included Pendarvis,
Whetsell,
Moorer and Miller
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Collins - land between the Edisto
and the Ashley
Rivers (today - Charleston Co), bounded south by CawCaw Swamp -
included
road to Rantowles Bridge, road to Sullivan's Ferry and St. Paul's Church
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Fraser - land between the Edisto and
the Ashepoo
Rivers, bounded north by Price's Bridge, Horse Shoe Creek, Parker's
Ferry
Road and road to Ashepoo Ferry - included Jacksonboro, White House,
Bear
Island, Mosquito Creek, Fenwick and Hutchinson Islands and Bennett's
Point
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Glover - bounded north by Fuller's
Cross Roads
to Sullivan's Ferry - included Gloverville and I'On's (Irons) Cross
Roads,
south by Parker's Ferry Road, west by Horse Shoe Bridge and Price's
Bridge
- later known as Sheridan and Glover township
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Verdier - no description
Compiled by Jane Hurd from Beulah
Glover's
Narratives of Colleton County
If you have additional descriptive
information
(especially for Verdier township) please send it to me. Also let me
know
of any errors in the descriptions.
© 1997
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