To convey by deed.
1816. Pickering, in his Vocabulary, calls this colloquial, adding: “None of our writers would employ it.” (N.E.D.) The word, however, has survived, and is in frequent use.
1854. When I have finished my course pertaining to the flesh, I am going to deed all my property to the [Mormon] Church; my wives and children, shall not have it to quarrel about.—H. C. Kimball at the Tabernacle, April 2: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 153.
1855. Go and improve that farm, though I do not deed it to you.—Brigham Young, June 3: id., ii. 304.
1855. Do I, as an individual, want to see the people deed all they have to the Church? It does not concern me individually; I would not give the ashes of a rye straw for a personal deed of all the Latter-day Saints possess.—Brigham Young, June 3: id., ii. 306.
1855. [He] deeded to Lincoln a valuable farm of 500 acres, including a rich quarry of white marble.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxi. 71 (Nov.).
1861. I rented a portion of ground in what was called the Church farm, which we afterwards deeded to sister Emma.—Brigham Young, Feb. 17: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ viii. 337.
