Amanuensis Monday~Lease of 30 Acres, Wm. J. Purvis to Elijah Wallace

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 Chesterfield County Land Deed, Lease of 30 Acres, Wm. J. Purvis to Elijah Wallace.¹

W. J. Purvis}
To                   }    Lease
Elijah Wallace}
This agreement made this 3rd day of July in the year 1886 between W. J. Purvis and Elijah Wallace  both of the County of Anson and State of North Carolina Witnesseth That W. J. Purvis agrees to lease devise and let to the said Elijah Wallace one Tract of Land containing Thirty acres more or less during the Term of Ten years said Terms is to commence January the 1st 1887 + to Expire January 1st 1897 for the first year of said term the said Elijah Wallace is to have said Land free of rent + for the remaining nine years he the said Elijah Wallace agree to pay to the said W. J. Purvis Eight Dollars per annum as rent for said Land, Now said Land is known as a Tract of Land lying and being in the County of Chesterfield State of South Carolina and the said W. J. Purvis agrees to furnish material to repair a House on said Land free of charge to said Elijah Wallace in repairing said House and it is agreed muterally [mutually] that the cost of this agreement and of making and recording said lease shall be borne by the said parties equally. As witness our hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Witness}
C. E. Braswell}                         Wm. J. Purvis {Seal}
J. W. Odom}                            Elijah X his mark Wallace {Seal}
State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield}
             Personally appeared before me C. E. Braswell and made oath that he saw the within named Wm. T. Hurst and Elijah Wallace sign seal and as their act and deed deliver the within written deed and that he with J. W. Odom Witnessed the execution there thereof
Sworn to before me this}
23 day of Oct A.D. 1888}                did not sign
W. J. Pegues {seal}}                             Probate
Notary Pub}

Recorded 7th Nov 1888

I suspect that the Witness to the execution of this Lease was not signed because it contains an error.  Wm. J. Purvis is leasing 30 acres of land and the statement reads that “Personally appeared before me C. E. Braswell and made oath that he saw the within named Wm. T. Hurst and Elijah Wallace”

Wm T. Hurst has nothing to do with this lease.

William James Purvis is my Great Grandfather.

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[1] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Deed Book 9: page 592, Wm. J. Purvis to Elijah Wallace, 30 Acre Lease; 3 July 1886, Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.