FromWILLCOX EDWARD ToSECOND SCHOOL DISTRICTlife Consideration sixteen Dollars Premises four hundred and forty square feet · lot of land for a school house (Charlestown)
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Know all men by these presents that I Edward Willcox of Charlestown
in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantation for and in Consideration of the Sum of Sixteen Dollars paid me
by the said paying In inhabitant of same District in the Town of
Charlestown County and State aforesaid The Receipt Whereof I do hereby
acknowledge to be duly given grant bargain sell and convey unto the said
person of said District their heirs and assigns forever or as long as it is
appropriated for a school House and no longer by said District making
and maintaining a road alongside said lot of certain tract of land
situate in said District containing four hundred and forty
square feet it being a lot of land booked for the setting of a school House
in said district by a map made of the town in said district bounded as follows
on the South by the South road forty feet on land of the grantor thirty feet
on the South on land of the grantor 40 feet on land of the grantor thirty feet
and so to the first mentioned Boundary
To have and to hold the said granted and Bargained Premises
with the privileges and appurtenances thereof to them the said tow persons
of said District their heirs and assigns forever or as long as it is appropre
tated for a school House and no longer
And I the said Edward Willcox for myself my Heirs Executants and
Administrators declare by Covenant with the tow persons of said District their
heirs and assigns all mountaineous premises that I have good right to Sell and Convey
the same to the said tow persons of said District their heirs and assigns
forever or as long as it is appropriated for a school House and no longer
against the lawful Claims and demands of all persons
Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal This 14th day
of April 1838
Executed in presence of
Edward Willcox [seal]
Bonnejah Bailey
Oliver Tuttle
Charlestown County before me Acknowledge This 14th day of April 1838
Personally appeared Edward Willcox submitted to the within instrument
unto and acknowledged the same to be his free and Voluntary Act
Before Bonnejah Bailey Justice Peace
Recorded Decr 25th 1838 By John Stanton Town Clerk
The page as recorded
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