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Know all men by these presents that we George W Cross Samuel J Cross Stephen B Cross &
William D Cross sons of Joseph Cross of Charleston SC are formally kinsmen and heirs
to the said Joseph Cross our father for the full sum of their hundred Dollars to the paid
to said Joseph Cross his Executors, Administrators or assigns to whom it shall be fully and
sufficiently paid ourselves our respective heirs Executors & Administrators
do hereby release and quit claim the 9th day of January 1859
The condition of the foregoing obligation is that whereas the said Joseph
Cross has executed a Deed of Release to us as any of all his Real Estate lying
in Charleston SC and we the said George W Cross Samuel J Cross Stephen
B Cross & William D Cross agree that one of us shall live on y^e premises
said Right Estate during his life the said Joseph Cross natural Life
Now if we should live on y^e premises said Real or Estate as aforesaid
then the above Obligation is to the void otherwise remain in full
force everlasting whereof the have hereunto set our hands and seals this 6th
day of January 1859
In presence of
Robert G Spark
Josiah H Grooms
Recvd Jan 6th 1859
by Charles Cross Town Clerk
George W Cross L S
Saml J Cross L S
Stephen B Cross L S
William D Cross L S
Know all men by these presents that I Jesse Dabovich of
South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island in
consideration of the thousand four hundred Dollars paid by Oliver Ennis Cousin
of Charleston in said County and State the receipt whereof I do hereby
acknowledge herby and hereby grant bargain sell and convey unto said Oliver
Ennis and his heirs and assigns a certain parcel or tract of Land situate
lying in said Charleston SC the following bounds and formerly known as formerly
belonging to my father charles dabovich by common right part of the same
more or less with a dwelling house throughout fenced around
Sith on y^e North side along with one Lane of Olive Street East on y^e land
formerly of Oliver Cross brotherly to long formerly of Olive Street East
on y^e highway or however otherwise bounded reserving to myself and
my heirs only on y^e east of some land where the burying ground now is to the
idea for a burying ground for myself my family and the right to pass and
repair thereto the only one under which I have owned part of a certain piece of march
land in Charleston city the one under which I have owned a number of years containing
eight act more or less his fronting easterly on a creek or channel which
empties into the sea said city I Dabovich weigh of side Jesse here for the
consideration above mentioned ample reward & valuable consideration unto his heirs
and assigns all my right of owner and things in aforementioned described and given
the premises
I do have and to have sole Grantee and guarantee from
prises with the privileges and opportunities thereof to the said Oliver
Ennis his heirs and assigns forever.
And I said Jesse Dabovich for myself my heirs Executors
and his Administrator as covenant with the said Oliver Ennis
his heirs and assign that I have lawfully seized in fee of
the premises that they are free of all incumbrances what
I have right to sell and convey the same to said Oliver
Ennis to hold as aforesaid and that I will warrant and
defend the same to said Oliver Ennis his heirs and assigns