Amanuensis Monday~Land Deed, Samuel Brock to Sarah Davis

  

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is a Land Deed between Samuel Brock and Sarah Davis on 8 August 1871.¹

Samuel Brock}

To } Deed

Sarah Davis}

State of South Carolina}

Chesterfield County} Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Brock of the county of Chesterfield in the State aforesaid For and in consideration of the sum of Fifty Dollars to me paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge have granted bargained sold and released and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release unto Sarah Davis and her bodily heirs late of the same County and State All that piece or tract of land lying an being on both sides of the Woolf branch being a tract of forty one acres and part of a tract of eighty three acres and part of another tract of one hundred and nineteen acres formerly owned by Mathew White containing one hundred acres more or less bounded as follows on the N. by Squire H. Brock W by lands of Samuel Brock E by Capt. Pollock. Together with all and singular the rights members Hereditaments appurtenances Having such shape form and marks as are represented on the Platt. To have and to hold all and singular the said premises unto the said Sarah Davis and her bodily heirs Their heirs and assigns against myself and my heirs lawfully claiming the same or any part thereof. Witness my hand and seal August 8^th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy one

Signed Sealed and delivered}

In the presence of}

James P. Brock}                        Samuel x (his mark) Brock {LS}

S. P. White}

Personally appeared before me James P. Brock & made oath that he with S. P. White witnessed the signature of Samuel Brock.

Sworn to before me this}

30^th day of Nov. 1871}                             James P. Brock

{Official seal} Henry D. Malloy}

Notary Public}

Recorded 6^th Nov. 1885 in Sales Book C page 222

T. M. Kirkley, Auditor

Recorded 6^th Nov 1885

The reference Samuel Brock is Samuel W. Brock, b. 1796, married Martha LNU, and died sometime after 1880. Sarah Davis is Sarah Ann Brock Davis, wife of Leonard Davis, and daughter of Samuel W. Brock. James Paul Brock, witness, is his youngest son. Squire H. Brock and Samuel W. Brock are thought to be brothers. Samuel W. and his wife Martha were both living in 1880. They both passed away sometime after 1880, date unknown, no tombstones have been found for either of them.  

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[1]  Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Deed Book 8: pages 358-359, Samuel Brock to Sarah Davis Land Deed; Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.