... Another warrant to Benjamin Andrews was issued 19 April 1679 for 240 acres, and on 14 June 1679 a grant was made to Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth Brant for 270 acres on Ashley River.
This grant either escheated, or was transferred to Joseph Oldys for a new grant was later made to Joseph Oldys for the 270 acres, and under his will was devised equally to his son Joseph and his three daughters Arabella, Elizabeth, and Margaret Oldys.
Arabella Oldys married William Cantey Junr [sic] and on the division of the plantation received one fourth or 67 acres, to which was added the two fourths of her sisters Elizabeth and Margaret acquired by her husband from them, and for the whole aggregating 202 acres a new grant was on 3 November 1703 made to William Cantey Jun. The motive for obtaining a new grant seems to have been to escape accumulated quit rents, for the new grant declares that it is free of such and that the quit rents would commence at a future date.
On 8 April 1704 William Cantey Junr [sic] "Yeoman" and Arabella Oldys his wife conveyed the 202 acres to Andrew Russ ...
