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Miss Jane Revill
Biographical sketch, 31 December 1979, of Jane "Miss Janie" Revill (1888-1971), a historian and genealogist residing in Sumter, South Carolina. Includes genealogical chart of the Revill family.
A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1753-1773
By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1939, reprinted 2021, 162 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN # 978-1-63914-019-0. This book is a great source for trying to locate an early ancestor's place of settlement within South Carolina. The 4,000 immigrants listed in this book were Protestant refugees from Europe who came to South Carolina in search of new lands and religious freedom. Arranged chronologically, and taken verbatim from the original Council Journals, 1763-1773, the information given in the certificates and petitions for lands under the Bounty Act includes the date and the location and acres of land granted. In some cases the immigrants are listed with their age, country of origin, and name of the vessel on which they arrived.
A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773
The 4,000 immigrants listed in this volume were Protestant refugees from Europe who came to South Carolina on the encouragement of an act passed by the General Assembly of the Colony on July 25, 1761, called the Bounty Act. Arranged chronologically, and taken verbatim from the original Council Journals, 1763-1773, the information given in the certificates and petitions for lands under the Bounty Act includes the date and the location and acres granted. In some cases the immigrants are listed with their age, country of origin, and name of the vessel on which they arrived. An excellent index provides references to more than 4,000 names in the text. This book is indispensable in attempting to locate an ancestor's place of settlement in South Carolina.
Edgefield County, S.C. Records
By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1984, reprinted 2016, 270 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-531-6. These abstracts are a panorama of available records such as jury lists, wills estate records, deeds, plats, tombstone, etc... of a particular surname in Edgefield County. These records cover a period to and after the Revolutionary War, often reaching into other counties and states for additional informationciting her source. Her records are know for her fairness and accuracy. Since the records were typed in alphabetical format, only those names within the body of the abstract (and different from name flanked with left margin) were indexed. Female names were oftenindexed under both maiden names and married name. For the first time her renowned card abstracts of Edgefield County, SC heretofore housed in the Washington Memorial Library, Macon, GA. are published with a full-name index of all persons within the 246 pages.
South Carolina Wills Originally Recorded in Charleston, S.C., 1672-1730
Typescript extract of genealogical data from original wills.
Copy of the Original Index Book Showing the Revolutionary Claims Filed in South Carolina Between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786
By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2021, 387 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-017-6. This is a copy of the original index book showing Revolutionary War claims filed in South Carolina between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786. The approximate 11,000 Claimants are listed in alphabetically order, with multiple references to the returns showing the page number of the entry book. Since the Index was kept by the Auditor General of South Carolina, this book constitutes an authoritative source for Revolutionary War claims. The author has also included a section on officers in the hospital and men of the Frigate South Carolina to whom certificates had been awarded.
To Make America
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
