1814 Land Deed-Gilbert Purvis to Gilbert Johnston Purvis

The 3 pages of this Land Deed has been reduced to 66% in order to display within this blog. The deed is on-line, at the link provided in the footnotes, as a very large PDF file.¹


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South Carolina}
Chesterfield District}
Know all men by these presents that I Gilbert Purvis of the State and District aforesaid in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Gilbert Johnston Purvis of the state and district aforesaid, HAVE granted bargained sold and released and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis All that Tract or Tracts of Land situate lying and being in Chesterfield district and State aforesaid on the southwest side of Thompson Creek and in part on Indian Creek containing Two hundred Acres more or Lefs, as per Plats to the original Grant annexed reference thereunto being had will appear Together with all and singular the rights members hereditaments to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining. To have and to hold all and singular the premises before mentioned unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis and afsigns forever, and I do hereby bind myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis his heirs and Afsigns against myself & my Heirs and against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.---------
Witnefs my hand and seal this sixth day of September In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fourteen.---
Signed sealed and delivered}              
In the presence of}
John Lowry
Wm. McKerall


South Carolina}
Chesterfield District} Personally appeared before me the subscribing Justice William McKerall who being duly sworn, deposeth and sayeth that he was present and did see the above named Gilbert Purvis, signed, seal & deliver the above implement of writing a s his act & deed for the use & purpose therein contained and that he did also see the above named John Lowry sign the same as a subscribing witnefs with himself.---
Sworn & Subscribed}                                   Wm. McKerall
To before me the}
6th day of Sept. 1814}
Peter L. Roberson, J. P.


Chesterfield District} Received Dec., 16, 1814 &
B. M. C. Office} recorded Jany 27th, 1815 in
Book No C Pages 94 & 95
Certified & Examined by
John Craig, R. M. C

In this transaction Gilbert Purvis, Sr. is selling off 200 acres of land to his son Gilbert Johnston Purvis.

The deed was signed on 6 September 1814 and recorded on 27 January 1815. It’s somewhat puzzling in that we know that sometime around 1818 Gilbert and his brothers packed up their families and moved to Clarke County , Alabama  and finally settled in and around Hinds, Rankin, Smith and Simpson Counties, Mississippi.

Gilbert Sr. and Gilbert Johnston both appear on the 1828 Simpson County tax list. Gilbert Sr. is not with the family in the 1830 Simpson County. At his advance age, his absence from the family clearly suggests that between the 1828 tax List and the 1830 Census enumeration that Gilbert, Sr. had passed away.  Sadly, his wife, Effica Howell Purvis, would pass away in August 1834 followed by his son, Gilbert Johnston in November 1835.  ^{2 3}

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[1] http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/8799
[2] Mississippi State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, *FamilySearch*, (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 14 January 2012), Simpson,County Tax Rolls; 1828, Box 3764, Image of 36 of 276, Gilbert PERVIS.
[3] 1830, Simpson County, Mississippi, population schedule, Simpson County, Mississippi, Page: 183;, Household of Gilbert [J.] PURVIS; digital images, www.ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 May 2011); citing NARA micro-film Roll: M19-71.