Here's a tidy little profit made from a widow's dire straits (due to
husband's debts)...

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Book D, p. 305		SAMUEL DEAN(E), merchant & MARY his wife,
10 & 11 Feb. [no year]	to CHARLES HILL, merchant, all of Charleston,
L & R			for L500 current SC money, part of lot #11 in
			Charleston, 86 ft. long, 27 1/2 ft. front.
Whereas WILLIAM HYDE, merchant, of Charleston, owned part of lot #11 in
Charleston,bouding S on a little neighborhood street leading to the
house of Dr. JOHN HUTCHINSON & CAPT. THOMAS HEPWORTH; W on MOSES WILSON;
which property was heretofore the estate of JOSEPH CROSKEYS & conveyed
by CROSKEYS & MARGRET INGERSON, executrix of will of CROSKEYS Tto
WILLIAM HYDE (Act of General Assembly 7 June 1712 to enable executor of
will of JOSEPH CROSKEYS, mariner, to sell a plantation, town lots & real
estate) and another Act of General Assembly 18 Feb. 1714 rested the
estate of WILLIAM HYDE, merchant, in trustees for payment of his debts &
maintenance of his widow ELIZABETH WIGFALL HYDE & child, (HYDE owing
considerable sums of money & his personal estate falling so short that
if his real estate be not sold his creditors would lose heavily, & to
remove all doubts of the title of the real estate of HYDE, it was
enacted that HYDE's property should be rested in CAPT. ROBERT FENWICKE &
BENJAMIN QUELCH as trustees, with power to sell, & in case of their
neglect or refusal to act it would be lawful for ELIZABETH WIGFALL HYDE
to dispose of the property);  & whereas FENWICKE & QUELCH had neglected
or refused to sell, ELIZABETH 24 & 25 Jan. 1716 sold to SAMUEL DEAN for
L110 currency part of lot #11; now DEAN conveys to CHARLES HYILL, DEANE
promises that wife MARY will appear before NICHOLAS TROTT, ESQ., CJ, to
release all her right & title of dower.  Witnesses:  RICHARD ALLEIN,
RICHARD HARELING.  Before JOHN CAWOOD.  JACOB MOTTE, Register.

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