Deed Book D 1, page 263
Deed dated 29 July 1840
In consideration of $360 , have sold, bargained, granted, and released all that tract of land whereon I now live containing 50 acres lying on Brushey Creek waters of Saluda River. Being part of the tract of land whereon George Edmundson formerly lived.
Wit: Robert Emerson, Benjamin Mauldin
Signed: Pierson Mayfield
Attested by Robert Emerson before James Henderson, J.P. the 10 Aug. 1840
Recorded 31 Aug. 1840