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Moses Norman, Land Grant for 735 Acres in Colleton County, 23 Nov 1732

Note: The text below is abstracted from a longer document. The document contains handwritten information on a preprinted Land Grant form. Most of the printed boilerplate is legalese, so this transcription only includes pertinent (primarily handwritten) text.

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Moses Norman
735 acres
Recorded the 5th Aug. 1737 [05 Aug 1737]

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SOUTH CAROLINA.
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WE…DO GIVE AND GRANT unto Moses Norman his heirs and assigns, all that parcel or tract of land Containing Seven hundred and thirty five [735] acres Situate lying and being in Colleton County in the Province aforesaid and butting and bounding on the East side of Salcacha [sic: probably “Salkehatchie”] River to the Westward on the said River to the Southward on Mr. Thomas Miles land and all other sides on land not laid out.
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Given under the Great Seal of our said Province Witness Thomas Broughton Esqr [Esquire] Lieut [Lieutenant] Governor and Commander in Chief in and over over [sic] said Province of South Carolina this thirteenth day of July anno Domini 1737 and in the Eleventh year of our Reign.

{signed} Thomas (Seal) Broughton.

Signed by the Honble [Honourable] the Lieut Govr [Lieutenant Governor] in Council J. Badenhop [probably “Jesse Badenhop”] C.C. and hath thereunto annexed a plat representing the same tract of land Certified by James St. John Esqr. [Esquire] Surr. Genl. [Surveyor General] the 21st Augt 1735 [21 Aug 1735].

  • South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Microfilm ST0060. Colonial Land Grants (Copy Series). Series S213019, Volume 3, Page 15.
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