South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and Other Ethnic Connections Beginning in 1670 Paperback – June 25, 2019

This book provides researchers with a convenient overview of many of the names of Indian traders found in South Carolina Documents Relating To Indian Affairs and other records. It gets a bit off tract with census records and unreliable family histories that are about half the book's content and not necessary for anyone with an internet connection. The real disappointment is the book's preface where Hicks seems to deliberately misquote Rev. Peter Fontaine to imply that the children born to Indian traders and Native mothers re-integrated into colonial society. Fontaine was not talking about children born to Native mothers; he was complaining that Indian traders were having children Black women. Here is his direct quote: (Indian traders) "take up with negro women, by which means the country swarms with mulatto bastards, and these mulattoes, if but three generations removed from tho black father or mother, may, by the indulgence of the laws of the country, intermarry with the white people, and actually do every day." Fontaine was clear, Hicks is not. Given the omissions in her book regarding the overwhelming historical evidence linking many of her subjects to Black ancestry, it's a deliberate and disappointing error. Read the book for its Indian trader lists. The stuff regarding ethnicity is a big fail.

I was pleasantly surprised at the large volume of information in this book of old family connections between Native Americans and White settlers. This book is a masterpiece for southern genealogy research (especially as many South Carolinians went west) so thank you for making it available!

Great information about various Indian families like the Clarks, Jeffcoats, Chavises, Buckners, and others. Thanks.

The Jeffcoats were never Indian or Native Americans.