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Know all men by these presents that I & Joshua B. Card of Charls-
town in the County of Washington have on Consideration of the sum of one hundred
and twenty four Dollars paid to me by my sole satisfaction of William Ney of
the same place aforesaid the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and
do promise fully satisfied and paid do by these presents sell and Convey
unto the said William Ney his heirs and assigns forever one
hundred Hectares of a Certain tract of land situated in said Charls town
which is bounded as follows beginning at a stake and stone at
the North West Corner of My said Card's land Hence turning easterly bounded by
said Card's land about Eighty Rods to pasquernut brook thence southeasterly
by said brook about Eighty Rods to the Northern Corner of land of Ledmond, then sly
thence westerly bounded on said Wood's edge about Eighty Rods to stake and stones at
thence northerly on Card's land about Eighty Rods to the first mentioned bound
Containing by Estimation four acres more or less.
To Have and to hold all the above described Premises with all the privileges
and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the said William Ney his heirs &
assigns forever and the said Joshua B. Card for myself my heirs executors administrators
and assigns do covenant with the said Ney that I that I am well seised of said Premises
and warrant and defend the same against the claims of all persons.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 14 day of Jan-
uary 1809.
Joshua B. Card L.S.
John B. Browning
[illegible]
State of Washington for Charlestown January 14 1809. Personally
appeared Joshua B. Card and acknowledged the within instrument
by him signed to be his act and deed and requested and bid hand and seal
for the purpose therefore contained before me Joshua Card for the
Presence January 14 1809 L.S. by John Martin Town Clerk to
Know all men by these presents that I Asa W. Noble of Charlestown
Township Rhode Island in my right of said land of my father and on Consideration of
one hundred and fifty Dollars to be paid to me in hand paid by said Joshua B. Card land
and paid’s land where the money actually belongs and and thereby fully satisfied’s’
do by these presents bargain sell and convey unto the said
Joshua B. Card for and during the natural life of the natural life of all the rights title
like and interest which I now have or may have for the said land in an
unto and follow described lot of lands lying in said Charlestown with parts of
a dwelling house containing and above the same near the line and
bounded on all sides by lands of bounded westerly by state of Charlestown and
lying in the rights of said landy near a long one of the Roads at the West of the Water lot
of said Town and as long and forth the part of said Estate
To have and to hold the said land or fourth part of said land described below
with all the privileges appurtenances belonging to the said land bounded in the said
land bounded in said Charlestown for a particular description of the said
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