LAND: Submitter: Betty Dunn
Subject: PETER (PIERRE) VIDEAU & JANE ELIZABETH to ANDREW REMBERT
Message: Book O, p. 230
29 May 1717
Bill of Sale
PETER (PIERRE) VIDEAU, planter, & JANE ELIZABETH his wife,(& with her free consent), to ANDREW REMBERT, shoemaker, of Berkeley Co., for L25 currency, 30 a. (part of 100 a.) bounding NW on ANDREW DEVEAUX (formerly PHILYMON PARMETER), NE on JOHNSON LYNCH; SE on ANDREW REMBERT; SW on other part of 100 a.; provided ANDREW REMBERMT & JUDITH his wife, or any of their children possess it; but not to dispose of the 30 acres to any one but PETER VIDEAU or his son HENRY JOSEPH, he or they paying as much as anyone else would. JANE ELIZABETH renounces her dower. Whereas WILLIAM, Earl of Craven, Palatine, & the Lords Proprs. on 9 Sept. 1696 granted PETER VIDEAU 100 a., English measure, in Berkeley Co., on E side Cooper River, now VIDEAU sells 30 a. to REMBERT with a proviso. Witnesses: LOUIS MOUZON, ANTHONY BONNEAU, JEAN REMBERT. Delivery by turf & twig. Before DANIEL HUGER, J.P. NATHANIEL JOHNSON, Register.
PETITION: In 1770 the Episcopalians of the High Hills declaring that their district was "a very populous and growing settlement crowded with people," petitioned the Assembly for aid in building a chapel of ease for St. Mark's Church at or near the plantation of Peter Mellett, to be under the Jurisdition of the parish vestry. The signers of the petition were:
PETITION: James Berwick Samuel Clark Joseph Kershaw Josiah Gayle
John James Sr. John James Jr. Ebenezer Hissett William Moore
Christopher Gayle Caleb Gayle Peter Mellett James Clark
Abijah Rembert Andrew Rembert Isham Moore William Rees
Matthew Singleton Josiah Hill Thomas Knighton Jo Terry
William McConnico Richard Bradford Richard Howell Samuel Cook
Arthur Richardson Daniel Ginnings John Purcell Edward Lane
Matthew Robertson Samuel Bennett