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Kershaw District, SC Deed Book D, page 51-52

"This Indenture made the first day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety Seven and in the twenty first year of American Independence between John Abbot of the State of South Carolina and the County of Kershaw Planter of the one Part and Samuel Wells of the State and County Aforesaid Planter of the other Part Witnesseth that the said John Abbot for and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty pounds Sterling good and lawful Money of the State above mentioned to hin in hand paid the Receipt wherof he doth hereby Acknowledge to have bargained sold aliened ??? and confirmed and by these Presents doth bargain sell alien, ???? and confirm unto the sd Samuel Wells and his Heirs and Assigns forever all that plantation or tract of land containing one hundred Acres more or less Situate and lying on Sawney Creek it being part of a 150 Acre Tract granted to John Abbot by his Excellency Thomas Pinckney Esq Govenor and Commander in Chief in and over the said State at Charleston the 3 day of March Anno Domini 1783 and part of a fifty Acre Tract of Land granted to the said John Abbot by his Honorable Wm Bull Esq Lieutenant Governer and Commander in Chief in ond over the said Province or State the 31 Day of August Anno donini 1774 beginning at a White Oak on the Bank of Sawney Creek on the South Side of said Creek just below John Abbots field where he now lives at the Mouth of the Waggon branch from thence across said branch and then up to a black oak and so on to a Post oak Corner and then turn a South East course to a Post Oak and so straight on to Spanish Oak and then ??? on a Hicorry? between the Waggon and Beetree branches and so down the Beetree branch to a Post Oak corner close to Alexander Stewarts House and so up Sawneys Creek to the abovementioned White Oak on the bank of Sawneys Creek Together with all and singular the Houses Outhouses Ways Waters Possessions Transfers Easements Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Hundred acres more or less thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to the Hereditaments and the Reversion & Reversions Remainder and Remainders rents issues Profits thereof and every part and parcel thereof of all the Rights and Titles whatsoever to the said hundred acres more or less of him the said John Abbot of and in or to the Same Premises to have and to hold the said Plantation or Tract of Land and all and singular the other Premises and privileges above mentioned with Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Wells his heirs and Assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said Samuel Wells and his heirs and Assigns forever And Lastly the said John Abbot and his heirs and Assigns shall and will warrant and forever defend the lawful, right, and Title of the aforesaid Tract of Land containing 100 acres more or less with all the appurtenances unto the said Samuel Wells his heirs and Assigns forever.  In witness whereof the said Parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably Set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written
(signed) John Abett (seal)
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us
(signed) Wm Gassaway
(signed) John (his X mark) Maddox
(signed) Anne Crim

Received the day of the date of the within written Indenture of the within named Sam'l Wells the Sum of Twenty Pounds Sterling it being the full consideration of the within Specified to be paid by him to me  #20..0..0
(signed) John Abett
Witness
(signed) Wm Gassaway

Memorandum, That on the day of the death (and not till then) of the within named John Abott full and p??able possession will be given to the within named Sam'l Wells of the Massuages? Land and Tenement within mentioned to have and to hold the aforesaid Premises according to the form and effects of the within deed
(signed) John Abett
In the presence of us
(signed) William Gassaway
(signed) John (his x mark) Maddox
(signed) Anne Crim

South Carolina
Town of Camden
Personally appeared William Gassaway who being duly sworn maketh oath and saith he was present and saw John Abott sign seal and deliver the within deed of Conveyance to Samuel Wells for the purposes herein mentioned and that he this Deponent John Maddox and Anne Crim subscribed their Names as Witnesses to the do execution thereof
(signed) Dan Carpenter Warden of Camden
Sworn to this 30th July 1802 before me
ex'd & del'd Alex. Steward
(in margin) 1802 July 30th"

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