Patience Stephens DeBruhl to Stephen C DeBruhl 31 December 1828

State of South Carolina Know all men by these presents that I Patience DeBruhl of Kershaw District in the State of aforesaid in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have for my Son Stephen C. DeBruhl also of Kershaw District in the State aforesaid have given, granted, bargained, sold, and released and by these presents do give grant bargain sell and release unto the said Stephen C. DeBruhl all that piece,parcel or tract of land situate lying and being in the District and State aforesaid,on the patent of Pine Tree Creek containing two hundred acres more or less, it being part of a tract of five hundred acres originally Granted to Robert Dumville.
Bounded by lands of August Lian, John Johnson, John Danzi and lands of my own, Together with all and Singular the provided before mentioned unto the said Stephen C. DeBruhl his heirs and assigns forever, and I do hereby bind myself, my executors, administrators to warrant and defend all and singular the said premises against unto the said Stephen C. DeBruhl his heirs and assigns against all lawfully claiming or to claims the same or any part thereof.Under my hand and seal this Thirty First day of December in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight. And in the the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of:
Tom Beale
Thomas Walsh Signed Patience DeBruhl

State of South Carolina Kershaw District Personally appeared before me Thomas Welsh
and made oath that he saw Patience DeBruhl Sign Seal and Deliver the above conveyance for the uses and purported therein mentioned and that he William Earle as the preserver of each other attests to the due executors thereof. Sworn to before me the 31st Day of December 1828 Thomas P. Evaud Thomas Welsh.

Note: 2nd Leutenant Stephen C. DeBruhl served as Adjutant Co. B 4th Florida Regiment
Confederate States Army. He was transferred to 57th Georgia Regiment as Adjutant.
Stephen was trained in the law and lived in Florida when the Civil War started.