UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Conveyance of Slaves - Benjamin JOHNSON to children - 1795


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Benjamin Johnson
Union County, SC
Register Mesne of Conveyance
Deed Book D, Page 273

To all people to whom these presents shall come. I Benjamin Johnson do send
greeting. Know yea that I the said Benjamin Johnson of the State of South
Carolina District of Pinckney and Union County Planter for and in consideration
of the good will and love and affection which I have and do bear toward my
loving son James Mooreman Johnson & my son William Johnson & my Loving daughter
Judith Johnson of the same State and County aforesaid, Have bargained and by
these presents doth freely give and grant unto the said James Mooreman Johnson
one Negroe boy named Harry to Have & to Hold the said Negroe him his heirs and
assigns forever and likewise I give to my well beloved Son William Johnson one
Negroe woman named Leti her and her increase from this day forward to him the
said William Johnson to him his heirs and assigns forever to have and to hold
the said Negroe forever, and Likewise I give to my well beloved Daughter Judith
Johnson one Negroe Girl named Esther to have and to hold the said Negroe Girl
she and her increase forever which Negroes I do and have given as above
mentioned to my three children above named, viz. James Mooreman Johnson &
William Johnson & Judith Johnson. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this 6th day of August 1795.
                                             Benjamin Johnson (Seal)
Signed Sealed & delivered
In Presence of us-
Jacob Hollingsworth
Phillip Reader



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