Amanuensis Monday~Land Deed, Lavina Turnage to Daughter, Eliza Rivers

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the anianDutch 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, Lavina Turnage to Daughter, Eliza Rivers. ¹



Transcription:

Lavina Turnage }
To
Eliza Rivers } Deed
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield District}
     Know all men by these presents, that I Lavina Turnage of the State and district aforesaid; for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have and bear for my daughter Eliza Rivers and for the further consideration of the sum of ten dollars to me paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by the said Eliza Rivers of the district and State aforesaid have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release  unto the said Eliza Rivers and the heirs of her body, all my right and title in a tract of land containing seventy three acres and bounded as follows to wit - on the South by the Turnage land North & east by O. H. Spencer' West Society Hill road I herewith release all my right & title to the aforesaid land to the said Eliza Rivers & her heirs against myself & my heirs or any other person lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof as witness my hand & seal this 3rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three..
Signed, Sealed and delivered                    Lavina X Turnage (seal)
In the presence of us                                      her mark
Stephen H. Parker
James Coward
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield District}
     Personally appeared James Coward before me James Powell magistrate in for said State who after being duly sworn deposes and says that he saw Lavina Turnage sign, seal and acknowledge the within & deliver the same as her deed and that he and Stephen H. Parker signed their names thereto as witness to the same.
Sworn to before me this                          James Coward
4th day of June AD 1863
James Powell
   Magistrate
Recorded 23rd March 1883 in Book H, page 221. S. G. Godfrey, Auditor
Recorded 23rd March 1883
Orig Del. to Eliza Rivers

With this deed, Lavina Thompson wife of William Turnage, is deeding 73 acres of land to her daughter, Eliza Turnage Rivers. Eliza Turnage is the wife of William Alfred Rivers. At the time of this deed signing, William Alfred Rivers is serving with the Confederate forces in Virginia. On 17 August 1863, William Alfred Rivers died at Petersburg, Virginia leaving his widow and 5 surviving children from his two marriages.



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[1] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Deed Book 7: Page 230-231, Lavina Turnage to Eliza Rivers Deed; Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.