PICKENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Deed - NORTON to KEITH - 1851 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl White 23 Feb 2001 ---------------------------------------- Subject: Pickens County Deed BK G-1 p. 22-23 Miles M. Norton C.E.P.D. to W. L. Keith Release for 83 Acres Land The State of South Carolina This indenture made the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one between Miles M. Norton Esquire Commissioner of the Honorable Court of equity for Pickens District at Pickens C.H. in the said State of the one part and Major William L. Keith of the same state and district of the other part Whereas John A. Chastain on or about the 21st day of April 1851 Exhibit his Bill of Complaint in this Court of Equity at Pickens C.H. in the said State against Temperence Chastain William Chastain Tilmon Chastain Lucinda Chastain Alfred M. C. Chastain Austin M. Chastain Nancy E. Chastain and Alexander Edens and William Edens for distribution of the real Estate of Abner Chastain deceased And the cause being at issue before the Honorable Court came on to be heard at June Term one thousand eight hundred and fifty one when the said court after full hearing thereof and mature deliberation in the premises did order adjudge and Decree that the said lands Should be sold at Public Auction by the Commissioner of the said Court on the Terms and for the purposes mentioned in the Decre_al Order or by reference thereto in the Registry of the said Court Will appears And the said Miles M. Norton as Commissioner of the said Court after having duly advertised the said Lands for sale by public outcry on the said fourth day of August first above mentioned did then openly and publicly and according to the custom of Auction sell and dispose of the said tract of land below described unto the said William L. Keith for the sum of Fifty Dollars he being at that price the highest bidder for the same. Now Therefore This Indenture Witnesseth that the said Miles M. Norton as Commissioner of the said Court under and by virtue of the said Decree and in consideration of the sum of Three dollars paid him by the said William L. Keith the receipt whereof is here by acknowledged hath granted bargained sold and released and by these presents doth Grant bargain sell and release unto the said William L. Keith his Heirs and assigns all that piece parcel or tract of land drawn in the proceeding in this case as tract No. 3 containing about Eighty Acres Together with all and singular the hereditaments rights members and appurtenances whatsoever to the said Tract of land belonging or in anywise a ppertaining and the reversions and remainders rents issues and profits thereof and also all the Estate rights Title interest dower possession property benefit claim and demand whatsoever both at law and in Equity of the Heirs and representatives of the said Abner Chastain deceased and of all the parties to this suit and of all other persons rightfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof by from or under them or either of them To have and to hold the said Tract of Land with it appurtenances hereditaments privileges and appurtenances unto the said William L. Keith his Heirs and assigns to him and his only proper use behoove forever. In Witness whereof the said Miles M. Norton as Commissioner of the said Court under and by virtue of the said Decree hath hereunto set his hand and seal of the Court on the day and year first above written Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of G. A. Taylor Jos. J. Norton Miles M. Norton (seal) C.E.P.D. State of South Carolina Pickens District Personally appeared G. A. Taylor before me and made oath that he did see Miles M. Norton Commissioner in Equity sign seal and as his act and deed deliver the written deed for the use and purposes therein mentioned and that J. J. Norton with himself was a subscribing witness to the same. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of Dec 1851 W. L. Keith C. C. G. A. Taylor Recorded the 10th day of Dec 1851 and examined by W. L. Keith C.C. & R.M.C. **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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