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By: The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Pub. 1910, Reprinted 2018, 430 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-907-9.Chester County was one the first three counties in Pennsylvania and was created in 1682. It sits in the southeastern corner of the state boarding Maryland. This book is a compulation of multible types of courts such as: Court of Common Pleas and Court of Quarter Sessions and Orphans' Court. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments of county officials, appointed administrators, marked public roads, granting of licenses to "ordinaries", taxes being levied, civil actions of a wide variety, persons being tried for offenses against the peace & dignity of the State, list of jurys, guardian accounts of orphans, Wills, and countless numbers of Deed Acknowledgements.

By: Colleen Elliott, Pub. 1988, Reprinted 2014, 356 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-606-1.Laurens County was one of the major paths of migration into South Carolina as well as from S.C. to Georgia, Alabama and points west. This book contains the names of more than 34,000 persons mentioned in these records, which include wills, proven dates of wills, estate inventories, appraisals and sales, purchasers at these sales, gifts of slaves to individuals not in estate settlements, guardianship decrees, contesting of wills, executorship's revoked and their replacements, remarried widows naming new spouse, heirs vs. executors cases, in-depth instructions for "unfortunate children", names of persons from other counties, and states in some cases, and clues to where the family Bible went. This is a veritable gold mine for the genealogist because in many cases this may be the only place where a person is found mentioned in the Laurens County records.