Deed, SC, Rutherford, CHRISTOPHER HICKS to THOMAS CAMP, 1783

Page    105
Entry    55

THIS INDENTURE made the 31st day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred & eighty three.

BETWEEN CHRISTOPHER HICKS and the state of South Carolina, Orangeburg District, of
the one part, and THOMAS CAMP of the state of North Carolina & County of Rutherford
of the other part.

WITNESSETH that for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds
proclamation money to the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS in hand paid by the said THOMAS
CAMP, at and before the sealing & delivering of these presents, the receipt whereof
he doth hereby acknowledge & therefore doth release, acquit & discharge the said
THOMAS CAMP, his heirs, executors & administrators by these presents he, the said
CHRISTOPHER HICKS hath granted, bargained, aliened & confirmed & by these presents
doth grant, bargain, sell, alien & confirm unto the said THOMAS CAMP & his assigns
forever all that tract, piece or parcel of land situate, lying & being in the
county of Rutherford & State aforesaid on the south side of the main Broad River,
including his own improvements & the mouth of Horse Creek.

    Beginning at a Pine on the top of the hill; running thence S 146 poles to
    a Pine; thence E 180 poles crossing said creek to a White Oak; thence N
    140 poles to a stake on the bank of the river; thence up the river as it
    meanders to the beginning.

CONTAINING by survey two hundred acres.

GRANTED to the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS by patent bearing date the sixteenth day of
July 1774 & all houses, orchards, buildings, ways, waters, water courses, profits,
commodities, hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises hereby
granted or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining & the reversion &
reversions, remainder & remainders, rents, issues & profits thereof & also all the
estate, rights, titles, interest, use, trust, property, claim & demand whatsoever
of him, the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS, of, in & to the said premises & all deeds,
evidences & writing touching or in anywise concerning the same.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the lands hereby conveyed & all & singular other the premises
hereby bargained & sold & every part & parcel thereof with their & every of their
appurtenances unto the said THOMAS CAMP, his heirs and assigns forever to the only
& the said proper use and behoof of him, the said THOMAS CAMP of him, his heirs &
assigns forever & CHRISTOPHER HICKS, for himself, his heirs, executors &
administrators doth covenant, promise & grant to and with the said THOMAS CAMP, his
heirs & assigns by these presents that the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS is seized of a
good and perfect indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple of & in the
premises hereby bargained & sold & that he hath good power & lawful absolute
authority to grant & convey the same to the said THOMAS CAMP in manner & form
aforesaid & that the said now are & so forever hereafter shell remain & shall be
free & clear of & from all former gifts, grants, bargains, seals, dowries, rights,
and titles of dowry, judgment, execution, titles, troubles, charges & encumbrances
whatsoever & that the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS & his heirs all & singular the
premises hereby granted & sold with the appurtenances unto the said THOMAS CAMP his
heirs & assigns against him the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS & all and every other person
or persons whatsoever shall warrant and forever defend by these presents.


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In witness whereof the said CHRISTOPHER HICKS hath hereunto set his hand & seal the
day and year first above written.

CHRISTOPHER HICKS {seal, his H mark}

Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of

CRENSHAW CAMP
DAVID D. CAMP {his mark}




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