The instrument's own words
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In my presence the parties have executed their hands and seals at Charleston aforesaid
this 12th day of October 1841.
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
Stephen Hopkins
Eng. to Register
Washington st.
Charleston Octr 12th 1841
Before me Judge Stephens & Lawson Pennes
Personally came Hannah D. McAllison & acknowledge the above instrument to be her own act and deed.
Charleston Court 12th 1841
By Wm. Stewart Not. Public [seal]
Hannah D McAllison [seal]
Know ALL MEN by these presents that I Silas Demas of East Greenwich in the
County of Washington State of Rhode Island, for and in consideration of the sum of
Four Hundred Dollars paid to me in hand by Melancthon Burdick of the town County of
said aforesaid the receipt of which I hereby acknowledge, grant bargain sell
Convey and pass to the said Melancthon Burdick his heirs and assigns forever, one
parcel of land called "the south pasture" lying between the road East and Easty
and the fence of the said Melancthon Burdick as follows containing by estimation one
hundred and twenty acres of land and fence bounded as follows beginning at the
Stone wall of the said Melancthon Burdick at the place known as the Rocky Mills Stone fence
17th East South East 6 1/2 poles to the North West Corner of the Rocky Mills Stone fence
58th East North East 11 poles and then to the North West Corner of the Range Stone fence
79th East North East 10 1/2 poles and then to the North West Corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles and then across the high grass North East
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles to the North West corner of the Range Stone fence
82nd North East 6 1/2 poles 59th North East 10 1/2 poles
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Witness whereof we the rescripts put our hands and seals at Charlestown aforesaid this
Twelfth day of December in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and fourteen
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
Thos Hardin
Wm Samuel
Silas James [seal]
Deliverance Ann James [seal]
M. Stringfellow P.
Charlestown December Third 1841 Personally came before Me the return
named person Silas James and declared again the within written Indenture by him
signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed
Signed at the hands of Silas Deliverance Ann James bonded Wife of the said Silas James
after hearing the said Indenture explained to her by me she declared and spoke free
from her husband's coercion acknowledging the same to be her voluntary act and deed
and from error without duress with wish to convey
Charlestown Dec 3rd 1841 Before me Wm Thornton few clerk.
By Philistine P. clerk.
Know all men by these presents that I John E Smith
of Charlestown in the county of Washington state and State of Rhode Island and
his P. Smith wife of the said John E Smith & smith on consideration of the sum
of one hundred dollars paid me by Mason Brown of town of Charlestown thereunto
the receipt whereof as to receive ratifiedly to hereby remise release and
forever quit claim unto the said Mason Brown his heirs and assigns forever
the whole part of a certain undivided third part of land lying in delivery Ward
Mason bordering bordering on Charlestown aforesaid containing by estimation five
Twenty rods east by the same more or less and bounded as followed south easterly
by road publicly and Elderly of north and Middle road Middle road on North eastly
and Easterly land of Mason Middle road on South westly land of house bounded
broken lands Also my whole part of a certain undivided third part of land lying in
situated on east Charlestown containing by estimation five poles bounded East between
more or less Standard at field corner [illegible] on the diagonal side some yards and
from there North easterly and Northly on a road leading to house otherwise bounded
and limited with my part of a certain undivided third part of land lying on the town line
Charlestown and containing by estimation five poles bounded East between the town
line and bounded on south easterly by road publicly or lines of Bridge road Northly on
land of George Bard and others Northly on the Diagonal side and bounded on the
town line John Brown & others bounded Northly on the house whereas named lot of
landing belonging to limited in some laws land of house Mason Brown and
on the whole portion by virtue of a deed of a lease by lease by lease Mason Brown
of the said Smith Smith.
I have also to Not the home together with all the Privileges and appurtenances
named hereof in some part Mason Brown his heirs and assigns forever and
in such John E Smith and his wife Mary M. Smith in order’s write I do hereby
convey and convey her Hereditaments and Administrations to convey with the land
to the said Mason Brown and assigns Also that we will warrant and defend the home
to the said Mason Brown his heirs and assigns forever against the claims
Terms of all persons claiming by marriage or under me according to the terms
of this deed’s the aforesaid Cohabited Lease further PROMISE under our hands
and seals this 28th day of October 1841.
Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of
John E Smith [seal]
Philistine P. Pellow
Mary M. Smith [seal]
Benjamin Tucker.