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State of Rhode Island [illegible] SS.
County of Washington [illegible] SS.
South Kingstown Nov: 23rd 1846
Then appeared Constance D. Hazard and acknowledged the foregoing to be her voluntary act and deed
and formally acknowledged the foregoing to be her voluntary act and deed
Before me
Thomas F. Bell
Justice Peace
I recorded the foregoing Deed the
8th day of May A.D. 1847
William H. Perry
Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents, that I Isaac
D. Hazard of Newport R.I. in consideration of the sum of sixteen thousand
dollars to me paid by Constance D. Hazard of South Kingstown R.I.
receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge Have sold released, alienated, and
forever quitclaimed, and do for myself and my heirs by these presents
forever sell release and forever quit claim unto the said Constance D. Hazard
(her heirs and assigns) all my right title and interest in and to several
tracts of land in Richmond and Charlestown in State of Rhode Island
comprising the Barcelona mill property with all the rights and privileges
thereunto belonging together with the interior pasture, drawing water courses
and other appurtenances to the said estate, as also all my right title and
interest in the machinery, tools in said mill and other buildings on
the premises
To Have And To Hold the aforementioned premises, with all
the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging to the said Isaac D.
Hazard his heirs and assigns forever; so that neither I the said Isaac D.
nor my heirs, or any person whom a possess claiming from or under
me or mine, or in the same right or stead of me or mine Shall or
will, by any way or means how, Claim or demand any right or
title to the aforesaid premises, or their appurtenances, or to any part
or parcel thereof forever
In testimony whereof I the said Isaac D.
Hazard have set my hand and seal this twenty third day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six
By presence of
Jn. Weston
Francis Weston
Isaac D. Hazard [seal]
State of Rhode Island, &c
(Washington Co.) In South Kingstown then the above named
Isaac D. Hazard acknowledged the above instrument to be his
free act and deed Before me
Thomas F. Bell Justice Do
I recorded the foregoing Deed
the 8th day of May A.D. 1847
William H. Perry Town Clerk