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 Anson County Land Deed, Rilah W. Smith and Others To Jesse C. Smith
Transcription:
Rilah W. Smith & Others
To
Jesse C. Smith
North Carolina, Anson County
Know all men by these presents that we Andrew J. Smith & wife Cornelia Jane, Rilah W. Smith & wife Elizabeth, Albert Smith & wife Julia, J. P. Brock & wife Catherine J., Richard Horne & wife Jerusha, And Henry A Wallace & wife Orelia of Chesterfield County South Carolina and John J. Smith & wife Lucindy, James K. Smith And E. B. Smith of Chester County State of South Carolina for divers goods courses And …[several illegible words]… thereunto moving [illegible word]… for the Sume of Fifty Dollars received to our full satisfaction have remised released and By these presents do for ourselves And for our heirs Executors & Administrators jointly and absolutely remise release & proven quit claimed unto the said Jesse C. Smith And to his heirs And assigns forever All the right And Title we the said Andrew J. Smith & wife Cornelia Jane Rilah W. Smith & wife Elizabeth Albert Smith & wife Julia, J. P. Brock & wife Cathern J Richard Horne & wife Allice?, Henry A. Wallace & wife Orilia John J. Smith & wife Lucindy James K. Smith and E. B. Smith have or ought to have in or to All the Dower Also tied to Delilah M. Smith dec’d widow of E. B. Smith Sr. And is a partition of the dower of Frances Wallace deacesd widow of Jesse Wallace And is Lot No 5 of the latter division And Bounded As follows East by Lot No 2 of said division on North by Lot No 4 on West by lands of J. C. Adams on the South by Lot No 6 And is said to contain Thirty (32) Acres to have And to hold the above released premises unto the Said Jesse C. Smith his heirs And Assigns to his And their only proper use forever So that neither we the said Andrew J. Smith & wife Cornelia Jane Rilah W. Smith & wife Elizabeth Albert Smith & wife Julia, J. P. Brock And wife Catherin J Richard Horne & wife Jerusha owns Henry A. Wallace & wife Orilia John J. Smith & wife Lucindy James K. Smith and E. B. Smith or any other person In Any name And Behalf Shall or will hereafter claim or demand And right or title to the premises or any part thereof but they and every one of them by these presents shall be Excluded And be forever barred in Witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands And [Seals] the 23 day of May A.D. 1893.
R. Horne {seal}
Jerusha Ann Horne {seal}
H. A. Wallace {seal}
R. Wallace {seal}
J. P. Brock, {seal}
C. J. Brock {seal}
A. F. Smith {seal}
Julia A. X her mark Smith {seal}
Elizabeth Smith {seal}
A. J. Smith {seal}
Cornelia J. X her mark Smith {seal}
J. K. Smith {seal}
E. B. Smith {seal}
State of North Carolina}Anson County} I, C. C. Moore Justice of the Peace in And for Anson County do hereby certify that Richard Horne And his wife Jerusha Ann, H. A. Wallice And R. Wallice his wife, J. P. Brock And his Wife C. J. Brock, A. F. Smith And his wife Julia A. Smith, Elizabeth Smith, A. J. Smith And his wife Cornelia Jane Smith, J. K. Smith And E. B. Smith And each of them with their wives personally Appeared And Acknowledged the due Execution of the Annexed Deed And the wives of each being By Me privately Examined Separate And Apart From their Said Husbands touching their Voluntary Execution of the Same doeth State that they Each Signed the same freely and voluntarily Without fear or compulsion of their Said Husbands or Any other persons And that they doth Still Voluntarily Assent thereto Witness my hand And private Seal this 23 Day of May A.D. 1893.
C. C. Moore J. P. {Seal}
State of North Carolina}
Anson County} The foregoing certificate of C. C. Moore A Justice of the Peace of Anson County is adjudged to be in due form And According to Law Let the Deed of Conveyance with these certificates be Registered this October 9th 1893.
John C. McLanchlin
Clerk of Superior Court
October 9th 1893 Then the forgoing Deed of Conveyance And certificates came into my hands And were Duly Registered. S. A. Benton
Register of Deeds
When Frances M Sullivant, widow of Jesse Wallace, passed away in February 1880 her estate was settled and the children of deceased daughter Delilah M. Wallace, wife of Elisha Brown Smith, was allocated Lot #5 of the estate. (Anson County, NC Deed Book 28, Page 35-40)
The children jointly owned this estate land (32 acres) until May 1893 at which time all the surviving children sold their interest in the land to their brother Jesse C. Smith.
Thus, we have the Land deed posted above.
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[1] Anson County, North Carolina, DB 30: pages 87-90, Rilah W. Smith & Others To Jesse C. Smith; 23 May 1893, Register of Deeds, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
