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812 To all people to whom these presents shall come, Whereas
Samuel Burdick Administrator upon the estate of Synenah Clark
late of Charlestown distr. sc by an order of the Probate Court
in said Town on the seventeenth day of September last ye
administrator was decreed to make sale of 50 murch of the Real Estate of the in
dec. as would be necessary to satisfy the said debts now remaining
at the time of his death and save incidental charges. Therefore
know by ye seal I the said Samuel Burdick Administrator as
aforesaid by virtue of the authority hereby given and in consid
eration of the sum of twenty eight Dollars and seventy five
cents to me paid by James Carpenter of westerly in the County of
Washington and State of Rhode Island he being the principal
at a Public Sale of certain Real land Estate held on the 11th day
of November A D 1849 the present whereby I hereby acknowledge
the receipt of in my said capacity grant bargain sell and convey
unto the said Carpenter his heirs and assigns forever all the
right title and interest which the aforesaid Synenah Clark had
at the time of his death over and to a piece of Maple Town land
containing ten acres lying on a square measuring july rods in
each of the four sides bounding on the East on the lane’s [illegible]
of Synenah Clark’s land on the South on the land of the heirs of
Joel Gardner dec. on the West or corner of Synenah Clark’s land
and on the North on land to Martha Burdick
Johane and her heirs the same to be held said Carpenter his heirs and
assigns forever
In Witness whereof I hereunto in my said cap
City as administrator but my hand and seal affixed the 14 day of Dec
year AD 1849
In presence of
John Stanton
Job Taylor
Received December 31st AD 1849
by C. M. Henderson Clk
State of Rhode Island SS
County of Washington. SS
Charlestown in said Town on the 11th day of December
AD 1849 personally appeared Samuel Burdick
and in his capacity acknowledged
this Deed to be his free Voluntary act
Before I Samuel Stanton Just of Peace
Samuel Burdick
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