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transcriptions:land_records:memorials:memorial_rebecca_simmons_1733-05-23 [2019-11-04 13:48:55] – created Ken Normantranscriptions:land_records:memorials:memorial_rebecca_simmons_1733-05-23 [2019-11-04 14:03:42] – minor format changes Ken Norman
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 ==== Rebecca Simmons, Memorial for 2 Tracts at Beach Hill, Colleton County, SC, 23 May 1733 ==== ==== Rebecca Simmons, Memorial for 2 Tracts at Beach Hill, Colleton County, SC, 23 May 1733 ====
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 +This family name is spelled both as "Simmon//d//s" and "Simmons". However, the contemporaneous record overwhelmingly favors the latter spelling of "Simmons" (no ‘d’). The transcription below //retains// the spelling of "Simmonds" as written by the author (except the signature, which was spelled "Simmons").
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-Simmonds ''[sic: Simmons]'', Rebecca\\+Simmonds, Rebecca\\
 Entered 23d May 1733\\ Entered 23d May 1733\\
 500 Acres\\ 500 Acres\\
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-The Memorial of Rebecca Simmonds ''[sic: Simmons]'' of Colleton County of Lands now in her possession, to be registered in the office of his Majesty's Auditor General, pursuant to an Act of Assembly of this Province in that case made and provided ~~~+The Memorial of Rebecca Simmonds of Colleton County of Lands now in her possession, to be registered in the office of his Majesty's Auditor General, pursuant to an Act of Assembly of this Province in that case made and provided ~~~
  
 One tract of Five Hundred ''[500]'' acres, granted by the Lords Proprietors to John Simmonds, bearing date the 15th day of January 1710 ''[15 Jan 1710]'', situate in Colleton County at a place called Beach ''[sic]'' Hill, butting and bounding to the northwestwards on Land of Charles Treadwell and Joseph Simmonds, westwards on Land not then laid out, southeastwards on Land of Moses Norman, northeastwards on Land of George Creichton, at the yearly rent of one shilling per hundred acres. One tract of Five Hundred ''[500]'' acres, granted by the Lords Proprietors to John Simmonds, bearing date the 15th day of January 1710 ''[15 Jan 1710]'', situate in Colleton County at a place called Beach ''[sic]'' Hill, butting and bounding to the northwestwards on Land of Charles Treadwell and Joseph Simmonds, westwards on Land not then laid out, southeastwards on Land of Moses Norman, northeastwards on Land of George Creichton, at the yearly rent of one shilling per hundred acres.
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