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A Meeting of the Subscribers of the New York & Providence and Boston Road
and Company held at the Tontine Coffee house in the City of New Haven
on the 11th day of July 1799, pursuant to Legal Notice Advertised in News
papers published in the City of New Haven, Subscribers & Directors & other Persons
interested attended the Chair of Mr. John S. Grout, who was appointed Secretary by Vote of said
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were present to the Meeting.
[illegible]
Edward S. Grout
The following Resolution was proposed to the Meeting.
That whereas a Loan sum not exceeding Two Thousand Dollars is now
wanted by the Company for the purpose of completing the Road in the town of
[illegible]
authorized by the Convention Regulations at their December Session 1806, for the
amount of $5,000 is not yet Utilized therefore, and is not likely to be acceptable to
the present purposes of the Company therefore moves that a free Committee
convened to be the one who have practically’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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And I the said Henry Green for my self my heirs their Reps and Assigns do here by agree
to warrant Samuel S. & his heirs & assigns forever to indemnify them the sd Welcome Champ
and Jonathan B. & to them their Heirs their assigns forever. — In Witness whereof I have set
my seal and my hand this 13th day of September A.D. 1809.
[Seal] Henry Green. [Seal]
Certified true copy of
S. Philemon Stanton.
Samuel Stanton.
Recorded Oct. 15 1809
by S. Stanton Clerk
State of Rhode Island ss
Charlestown on the 10 day of September
1809 personally appeared the above named Henry Green
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to have been made his
free and voluntary Deed [Seal] Before me
Samuel Stanton Justice Peace.
I know All men by these Presents that I Thos. Olney Clerk of Charlestown County
Washington state of Rhode Island and Vt. Governor in Consideration of the sum of five
Dollars paid by Charles M. Clerk of the State and County aforesaid to the Clerk aforesaid
of I do hereby acknowledge to convey Grant Bargain Sell and Convey unto the
said Charles M. Clerk of the State and County aforesaid his heirs and assigns forever a lot
situated in Charlestown containing hereby attached is a map showing more or less the
as follows beginning at a stump west side of the highway then it runs North 45 degrees
West 110 poles to a stake of Cedar among some ferns and further in land opposite the
and westerly on the edge of the road Drain Green’s road, southerly 100 poles to a
and bounded on the north on the land of G. Ludd and on Eastward on Indian Course
downing the fence as the same is divided. I NOW AND TO FOREVER do grant
have given over the same with the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to the
said Bargain and Conveyance with the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging to the
said Charles M. and his Heirs and assigns forever and to them and their Heirs and assigns
forever. And I the said Thomas Olney Clerk for my part as Guardian and Administrator etc to convey
and I do hereby warrant to the said Charles M. Clerk his Heirs and Assigns that I am lawfully and
with the said Charles M. Clerk his Heirs and Assigns that they are free from all encumbrances whatever and
for the Premises that they are free from all encumbrances whatever and will warrant and
defend the same to the said Charles M. Clerk his Heirs and assigns forever against
the lawful Claims of all persons.
Thomas Olney Clerk.
Signed Sealed and Delivered in
Presence of
Elizabeth W. [Seal] to
The Church Washington for Charlestown September 15 1809.
Recorded Sept. 15 1809 Personally came the within Named Thomas Olney and
by S. Stanton. acknowledged the within Instrument to be his free act and
deed Deed sealed and Sealed Seal for this purpose executed
Before
Isaac Church Justice Peace.
I know all Men by these Presents that I Sd Providence of Charlestown Co
the County of Washington State of Rhode Island and Providence situated to
for and in Consideration of the sum of One hundred and fifty Dollars
me by Albert Taylor of the Town County and State aforesaid to the Clerk
whereby I do hereby acknowledge to convey Grant Bargain Sell and Convey unto the
said Albert Taylor of the Town County and State aforesaid ten rods of
Land situated being and being in the Town of Charlestown bounded as
Sd containing by Estimation Eight acres more or less the
and bounded on Follows (way) bounded south end of Edward Wiley to
Quit. West on a stone boundary the property of Joseph White late of Charlestown
North on Land of John Pep. Easton Land of Edward Willington
faint!
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