Government Land Sales
During and immediately following the Civil War, lands in insurrectionary areas were disposed of under laws passed between 1862 and 1866, including land abandoned by owners in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
The following indices are an alphabetical listing of persons who obtained abandoned lands in Beaufort County, in four ways:
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