It happens to me, IF I can find them. sometimes they're in more than one STATE in one year. Those folks must have had itchy feet! Vi -----Original Message----- From: ELIZABETH RUSSO <elizabethrusso@home.com> To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 9:14 PM Subject: [SC] SUMPTER, DUBOIS, GAILLARD, MILES; NEILSON, NELSON, MASON, RUGELEY >This transaction was recorded right after the previous one posted. In >the first one, SAMUEL DUBOIS was said to have been of St. Stephens >Parish; here he is from St. Johns Parish. I'm not clear why he would >state himself to be of one, then the next parish in back-to-back >transactions like this, especially since the first purchase he was said >to already be of St. Stephens where both transactions take place. So it >is not like he had just moved to St. Stephens in the second >transaction... > >SAMUEL DUBOIS also appears in records in St. Matthew's Parish, where he >died and left a will. > >Do others find their ancestors in several parishes within the same >year? I've found this happening with several of my ancestors. > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Book Z-3, pp. 265-271 THOMAS SUMPTER, & MARY, his wife, of St. >31 May & 1 June 1771 Marks parish, Craven Co., to SAMUEL DUBOIS, >L & R planter of St. Johns Parish, Berkeley Co., for L 650 >currency, 200 a. on S side Santee River, bounding E on Scotts Old Field; >S on JOHN HAY; W on TACITUS GAILLARD; which 200 a. were granted on 15 >Oct. 1766 to AQUILLA MILES; who by L& R dated 15 Oct. 1766 sold to >THOMAS SUMPTER. Witnesses: JARED NEILSON, WILLIAM NEILSON (NELSON). >Before WILLIAM MASON, JP. Recorded 10 Nov. 1772 by HENRY RUGELEY, >Register.