containing Twelve hundred acres more or less were bid off
& bought by the said James B. Brown at a sale of the
same made by the Sheriff of said County of Alachua and
State of Florida to satisfy sundry executions issued out
of the Circuit Court of the said County and State my
Dower interest in which I have sold and relinquished
and released to the said James B. Brown in part con=
sideration of the said sum of Thousand dollars named
and mentioned in this Instrument
  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
seal this second day of June AD 1870
Signed sealed in presence of us }   R.M. Cunningham
Wm.W. Shannon                   }
D.M. McEwan                     }
State of South Carolina }
Kershaw County          }
                           I C. Shivers Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Common pleas and General sessions and Ex officio
Magistrate in the County aforesaid do certify unto all
whom it may concern that Rebecca M. Cunningham
widow of the late William Cunningham and who was
well known to me did this   appear before me and upon
being privately and separately examined by me did decl=
are that she does freely and voluntarily and without any
compulsion dread or fear of any person or persons whomsoever
renounce release and forever relinquish unto the above named
James B. Brown his heirs and assigns all her interest and
Estate and also all her right and claim of dower of in
and to all and singular the premises above relinquished
and all other things therein mentioned In witness whereof she
has signed this in my presence
Given under my hand and the           } R.M. Cunningham
seal of the Court this 2nd June 1870  }
 C. Shiver Clerk of the Circuit Court }

State of South Carolina }
Kershaw County          } I Samuel W. Melton Judge of the 5th
                         Judicial Circuit of the State of South
Carolina and in tern presiding Judge of said Court do hereby
certify that C. Shiver before whom the foregoing certificate and
relinquishment were made as appears by his signature in
  own proper hand writing and the seal of the Court
was at the date thereof Clerk of the said Court and that
he is authorized by law to take      of Deeds and relinquishments
of Dower and Inheritance and Trust all due faith should
be given to his official attestation and that the proceeding
attestations is In due form of law and by the proper officer
 Given under my hand at Columbia this 20th day of June 1870
               Saml W. Melton Circuit Judge 5 Circuit of So Car