Deed, SC, Craven, WILLIAM GAUS to ANN BRYAN, 1740

South Carolina

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I, WILLIAM GAUS, of Long Bay the Parish of
of Prince George and the province of aforesaid, Inn Keeper, send greeting.

KNOW YE that I, the said WILLIAM GAUS, for the sum of five shillings current money
of the province to me in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivering by ANN
BRYAN of the said Parrish and province aforesaid, spinster the receipt there of
whereof I do hereby acknowledge and thereof and therefrom and of and from every
part and parcel thereof doth forever acquit, release, exonerate, and discharge the
said ANN BRYAN, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them hath given, granted, bargained, and sold, aliened, remised, released,
enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents does give, grant, bargain and sell,
alien, remise, release, enfeoff and confirm unto the said ANN BRYAN, her heirs and
assigns, forever one negro wench called ROSE with her two children called PEG and
JENNY, them and their issue, with twenty breeding cows and their increase, some of
which is branded with an N and some with an I, these and marked with a flap and
slit on the left ear and a crop and nick in the right ear, and hath their dewlap
cut, which said cattle are now in the care of one ____ JONES one cowpen keeper who
is to receive his share, the fifth calf each here whilst in his care, and three
breeding mares, with their increase, and which is branded with an N and one with an
I and one with a W, these with three feather beds of goose feathers with quilts,
blankets, sheets, pillows, and bolster, and the reversion and revision, remainder
and remainders, rents, dues, services and profits of the said Negroes, cows and
calves, mares and colts, feather beds and Furniture heretofore mentioned.

AND ALL the estate, right, title, interest, use, trust, possession, property, claim
and demand whatsoever of them, the said WILLIAM GAUS, of unto and out of the said
Negroes, cows, calves, mares, colts, feather beds and Furniture heretofore
mentioned and all the estate, right, tight title, interest, use, trust, possession,
property, claim and demand whatsoever of him the said WILLIAM GAUS.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said negro wench, ROSE, and PEGGY and JENNY, and their
issue, and the 20 cows and cows and their increase, and the three mares and colts
and their increase also the three feather beds and furniture above-mentioned to
her, the said ANN BRYAN, her heirs and assigns, but to and for the use, benefit,
and behoof of NEEDHAM BRYAN, JOHN BRYAN and WILLIAM BRYAN, sons of the above-named
ANN BRYAN, and their heirs and assigns forever to be equally divided between the
said NEEDHAM BRYAN, JOHN BRYAN, and WILLIAM BRYAN an equal dividend, that is, to
each one alike out of the above-named Negroes and cattle and mares and beds and the
said WILLIAM GAUS and his heirs, the said Negroes, cattle, mares, beds to the said
ANN BRYAN and her heirs shall and will warrant and forever defend by these
presents.




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                    Deed, SC, Craven, WILLIAM GAUS to ANN BRYAN, 1740

In witness whereof the said WILLIAM GAUS have hereunto set his hand and seal this
27th day of August in the year of Our Lord 1740.

WILLIAM GAUS {seal, his M mark}

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of

THOMAS BLYTHE
SIMON STEAD




Craven County

Personally came appeared before me this day THOMAS BLYTHE one of the witnesses to
the within instrument of writing who being duly sworn on the holy evangelist
declares that he did see WILLIAM GAUS sign, seal, and as his act and deed deliver
the said instrument of writing for the uses there in mentioned and that he did also
see SIMON STEAD sign the same as witness thereto.

Sworn before me this 2nd of March 1740 3

WILLIAM WHITESIDE

Recorded 4th January 1744




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