Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well.   Read about the History of the USGenWeb Project.

     I am Pat Sabin, your host for the Dorchester County SCGenWeb Project.  I also host the Colleton and Bamberg County SCGenWeb sites.  My "lowcountry" families include Ayer, Byrd, Gavin, Hughes, Raysor, Risher, Stokes, and related families. My contribution to the Dorchester County SCGenWeb site is in maintaining the project site.  If you have any documents, such as wills, deeds, Bible records, old letters, groups photos, church histories, etc., please consider submitting them to the Dorchester County SCGenWeb Project to share with other "seekers."

Dorchester County was named for Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1696 Congregationalists migrated from Dorchester, Massachusetts to South Carolina, establishing a new settlement  called Dorchester.  The original town had been abandoned by 1788, but the parish continued to refer to it as St. George Dorchester. 

The area of modern Dorchester County was, in 1710, part of the old Colleton and Berkeley Districts.  In 1769 it became part of the Orangeburgh and Charleston Districts.   In 1801 it was incorporated into the new Colleton County.  Dorchester County was formed in 1897.

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A few of our "Low Country" Neighbors
 Allendale | Bamberg  | Barnwell | Berkeley |  Beaufort
Charleston |Colleton |  Dorchester | Hampton | Jasper | Orangeburg