New! South Carolina 1775 Precincts (Counties)
Hilton Head Island & Daufuskie Island in 1775, part of a very detailed map of North & South Carolina by Henry Mouzon. The full map can be seen here.
Is the “Devil’s Elbow” (top center) still called that? Yes!! This is now in the town of Bluffton. There was an old land grant to one Colleton, whose house location is shown on the map.
The Hilton Head excerpt above is also seen on my “new” map of Beaufort Precinct in 1775. I have taken apart the 1775 Map of NC & SC. See below.
To make the 1775 Mouzon map of NC and SC more accessible I have chopped it up into the Precincts (counties). There are now 8 of these “chopups”, including the Cherokee Territory in what is now Georgia. You can browse all of the precinct maps here.
Toogoola, now spelled Tugaloo, was a major Cherokee settlement. It was destroyed by American colonists in the Cherokee War in 1776.
The site is mostly under the waters of the man-made Lake Hartwell.
The map of the 96th Precinct shows New Windsor in South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia across the Savannah River. Fort Moore was a trading post / fort built in 1716. Note “Apalachees deserted 1715”, a reference to an event in the Yamasee War.
The village of “New Savannah” on the Georgia side of the River no loner exists.
The coastal precincts were much busier than the back country, then as now. The Georgetown Precinct map which covers the low country from Georgetoiwn to Myrtle Beach (the latter not named back then) is very detailed.
Georgetown was the 3rd oldest town in Georgia, and was a major sea port in 1775. Sailing ship pictures adorn the coastline of the Mouzon map.
