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I'm glad someone finally found this useful. If I were a Screven descendant, I certainly would have wanted it. I also have copies of a fascinating account of the founding of Georgetown by Elisha Screven. Seems he wasn't the legal owner of the land after all and there were lawsuits as a result. I'll be glad to send you scans if you want them. This comes from The History of George Town County, South Carolina by George C Rogers. (If someone finds this posting years from now, tell me to look in my Nov 2005 photos file for the Georgetown scans.)
We were recently in Georgetown. I wanted to find the grave of Rev Screven just out of curiosity. I asked at the Rice Museum and they didn't even seem to be aware that his grave still existed. I finally found it about a "diagonal block" from the Rice Museum in a paved parking lot. (As you come out of the Rice Museum, walk a block straight ahead, then a block to the right.) A grassy section was bricked off with a relatively recent monument that said Rev Screven and members of his family were buried there. But there were no individual stones or names of the family members, so it's impossible to tell who or even how many.
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