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1/29/1820 · DEED · book 5 page 430 doc 12168

From POTTER JOSEPH life, POTTER MARY life
To CROSS PELEG life
Consideration one Hundred and fifty Dollars
Premises four acres more or less · Lot bounded by a brook, cedar swamp, and hill side (Charleston)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1818 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → POTTER JOSEPH · book 5 p 380

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1830 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 218
▶ 1851 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 7 p 437

Bounded by

Gorton

The instrument's own words

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430— KNOW All men by these presents that I Joseph Potter of Charleston County of Land- of the And State of Rhode Island and State of Georgia a Yeoman in Consideration of the sum of one Hundred and [illegible] dollars and paid by Relay Coffy of Charleston in said County Georgia an, the receipt theres of I do hereby Setmns assign cede and absolutely give Grant Bargain Selland Convey unto the said Relay Coffy his Heirs and Assigns forever One Certain lot of Land situate in Charleston Containing four acres more or less and Bounded as following Boundedly Running Easterly on the Brook, then running [illegible] of the Cedar swamp into the Hill side and thence running Westerly Boundedly Running Easterly and Westerly on the Brook, then running Northerly Boundedly Northerly and Westerly on the Garden Land and to the [illegible] Boundedly running on the Hill side [illegible] and then running Southerly Boundedly running on the Brook, then running Northward and [illegible] then running to meet the first line with the Straight Line Across vacant land [illegible] and to the said Land granted and bargained Reserved with the Priviledges and Appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said Relay Coffy his Heirs and Assigns forever to have to his their use and Behoof forever, and I the said Joseph Potter for myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant into the said Relay Coffy his Heirs and Assigns forever [illegible]’ly warrant in and for the Premises that they are free from all encumbrances, and that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Relay Coffy his Heirs and Assigns forever [illegible] the meaningful Claims of all persons and Mary Potter Wife of the said Joseph Potter [illegible] for the Consideration above Mentioned hath and agreed to surrender all her right of Possession and power of thirds of, in, and unto the before Described and Bargained and Conveyed unto the the said Relay Coffy his Heirs and Assigns forever In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seal this 29th day of March A D 1819— Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Joseph Potter (Ls) Mary Potter Eliza Potter Mary Potter (Ls) Recorded from 29th of March 1819 by Samuel Stanton D. Cl. Washington ton for S C At Charleston on the 29th day of March D 1820. in Court came Joseph Potter Signer and Creator of the within Instrument and Acknowledged the same to be his free Voluntary act and deed his hand and seal— Before Samuel Stanton D. Cl.

The page as recorded

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deed_walker_v1.9_2026-10-10 · the index is the town's own (i2l.uslandrecords.com); transcripts, chains and the assessor's cards are the Perry Machine's reading of it. Where the record we hold runs out, the page says so.