The instrument's own words
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Know all men by these presents that I Sodowick Hosie of
Charlestown in the County of Washington for and in Consideration of
the sum of Three Hundred and Eighty Eight Dollars and fourteen
Cents to me in hand paid by Nathan D Owen as agent for the Narragansett
Providence and Boston Rail Road Company (a company
legally incorporated by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island
do hereby for myself my Heirs Executing Administrators and assigns
acknowledge that I have required the above sum in full for all damage
appertaining to my dwelling house and the Outlets thereon for the lands belonging to me
in the town of Charlestown taken by said Rail Road Company and by them
enclosed for a Rail Road beginning from the land title owned by Lewis
Tugwell on the North East and running through my land to Land of Sam
ucl Brown on the South West the said Rail Road fills of the Amount & interest
awarded to me by the Report of Referees to Mr Samuel W Arnold Millen
Re to Staples and Judge Howard at the August term of the Court of Common
Pleas for Washington County in the Year 1838 in the Appeal from the
Report of the Commissioners between me and said Company I said Company
fulfilling all the obligations what they are under by said named Report
or their successors or Assigns to be holden by said Company Their successors
or Assigns according to the provisions of Their Charter of Incorporation
In Testimony of which I have set my hand and seal at
South Kingstown in said County this 25th day of May 1839
Signed sealed and delivered
by presence of
Ephshelter S Shearman Sodowick Hosie (ssl)
Washington Co May 25th 1839 Personally appeared before
me Sodowick Hosie whose name is also written and acknowledged
ged the foregoing Instrument to be his free and Voluntary Act with
his hand and seal there affixed
Ephshelter S Shearman Public Notary
on the 17th day of August 1839 I Recorded this deed
Monef Jhn Standen Court Clerk
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