Amanuensis Monday~Land Deed, Mary T. Davis to C. D. Boan, 1872

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 from Mary T. Davis to C. D. Boan, 1872.¹

Sometime before 25 May 1866, Christopher Boan (1806-1866) of Chesterfield County passed away leaving an estate containing 194 acres of land.²  His son, Charles David Boan requested and received Letters of Administration from the Courts.


Transcription: ³
Chester field S C May the 25^th 1866
Mr illegible Craig a few lines to you if you illegible
I ask you for leters <sic> of administration if you
Will grant it father and mother is Both ded
And the rest of the familey is in Carbondale, Ill.
Williamson Co C. D. Boan the son of Christopher Boan
To Mr. xxxx xxxxxx Mr. heue [Hugh] Craig

The lands owned by Christopher Boan were acquired by the County for failure to pay taxes on the property. On the 18 June 1872, T. L. Weston, Auditor of Chesterfield County, SC sold 194 acres of land formerly belonging to Christopher Boan to Mary T. Davis for ten dollars and 57/100 [$10.57].

This transaction, dated as aforesaid, was recorded in Chesterfield County Deed Book 4, pages 145 & 146. ⁴  Three months later Mary T. Davis sold this same 194 acres of land to C. D. Boan, son of Christopher Boan, for fifty dollars [$50.00].



Mary T. Davis to C. D. Boan Deed ⁵
The State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
Know all men by these presents that I, Mary T. Davis for and inconsideration of the sum of fifty dollars to me in hand paid by C. D. Boan the receipt whereof is herby acknowledged have Granted, bargained, Sold and released and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto the said C. D. Boan all that tract, piece, or parcel of Land Containing one hundred ninety four [194] acres more or less formerly belonging to Christopher Boan and Sold as delinquent Land at a sale By the Treasurer of the County, the sell day in June 1872 Bounded by the lands of J. L. P. Boan, R. T. Powell and others unto the said C. D. Boan his heirs and assigns forever. To have and to hold all and Singular the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining unto the said C. D. Boan, his heirs and assigns forever and I hereby relinquish and forever quit claim all my right and title to the above premises.
In witness I hereunto set my hand and seal this 2^nd of September A. D. 1872.
The words more or less interlined before the beginning of the deed.
Signed, sealed and delivered}                                     Mary T. Davis {LS}
In presence of}
Stephen Jackson}
W. B. Odom}
 
{U S stamps amounting to}
{Fifty one cents properly canceled}
 

State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
Personally appeared before me Stephen Jackson and made oath that he saw the within named Mary T. Davis sign Seal and as her act and deed deliver the within deed and that he and W. B. Odom witnessed the execution thereof.
Sworn to before me Stephen Jackson
2 Dec 1872.
F. F. Mulloy
Clk.

Auditors Office}
Chesterfield Co.}
Recorded October 4 1872 Sales Book A page 21
                                                  F. L. Weston
                                                  County Auditor

Recorded 2 Dec 1872,

Orign’l Dlv to C D Boan

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[1] Land Deed - Mary T. Davis to C. D. Boan Deed; 2 September 1872; Deed Book #Book 4; Page(s) 146-147; Register of Deeds; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, SC; 4 June 2016.
[2] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19384-38763-64?cc=1911928 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0153-0227 > image 1218 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[3] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19384-40005-22?cc=1911928 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0153-0227 > image 1232 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[4] Land Deed – T. L. Weston, Auditor to Mary T. Davis Deed; 18 June 1872; Deed Book #Book 4; Page(s) 145-146; Register of Deeds; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, SC; 4 June 2016.
[5] Land Deed - Mary T. Davis to C. D. Boan Deed; 2 September 1872; Deed Book #Book 4,; Page(s) 146-147; Register of Deeds; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, SC; 4 June 2016.