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Laurens Co SC Court Minutes

10 Mar 1788
John Fields appointed overseer of the part of the highway from Thomas Carter's old place to Swanceys ferry on Salluda.....same be kept in good repair for one year.

8 Dec 1788 John Fields was one of those drawn to serve as pettit Jurours at the next Court to be held the 2nd Monday in March.
A deed from John Fields & his wife to Roger Murphy for the Conveyance of 125 acres of land proven in open Court by the oaths of Ebenezer Murphey & George Maddin & Ordered to be recorded.

9 Mar 1789 Wm Sims is appointed overseer of the highway from Thos Carter's old place to Jas Sullivant's in the place of John Fields

10 Mar 1789 John Field served on the jury of three cases.
11 Mar 1789 John Field served on the jury of four cases this day.



Laurens Co SC Deeds
DB C, p.55 20 Oct 1788 John Fields and wife Betty Ann to Roger Murphy for £29. 125 acres on Ritcheys Branch of Reaburns Crk. Granted 5 Jun 1786 to Fields. Wit: Ebenezer Murphy. George Madden. Proved 30 Jun 1789.
DB D, p.208 8 Mar 1792 Samuel Wharton & wife Maudlen [Madeline] to Aaron Starnes. 58 acres on Reedy Rive bounded by Wm Goodman, Enos Stimson, John Fields, Ebenezer Starnes. Wit: Jno Findley, Roger Murphy, Stephen Wood. Proved 26 Jul 1792.
[John Fields living next door to his aunt Anna Starnes & her sister Elizabeth Stimson. Roger Murphy is likely his uncle, his mother's brother.]
DB F, p.127 12 Feb 1796. John Fields to Anna Starns for £10. 25 acres, part of 196 acres grant of 1786. Bounded on Anna Starns, Roger Murphy, said John Fields. Wit: Jno Starns, Jacob Paulk. Proved 19 Feb 1796.
DB F, p.534 8 Mar 1799 Wm Runnolds [Reynolds] to Henry Fuller for £80. 171 acres on Starnes Branch of Reaburns Creek, part of 196 acre grant to John Fields. Wit: Benj. Carter, Silvanus Adams. Alsey Reynolds released dower. [This would seem to be rest of the tract John had sold to his aunt Anna Starns. I did not find a deed for the sale from Fields to Reynolds.]
DB J, p.81 12 Sep 1807. John Fields, planter to George French, blacksmith for $424. 212 acres on Cane Crk of Saluda R granted to Wm Drew Senr dec'd on 23 Jun 1774, conveyed to Sarah Right Jr [Wright], then sold by her husband Stephen Wood to James Clemens, then to John Field. Wit: Moses Madden, Thos. Cargill, S. Adams. Betsy Ann Fields released her dower rights.

Father	John Field ( - 1767)
Mother	[Daughter] MURPHY ( - )
Sibling	Roger Field ( - )