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Am I the said Richard C Ringen for the sum of my heirs devise to
and Administrations to convent with the said Richard his
this and assign. But at all and above the presenting instrument I am
the lawful owner A my undivided Share of the Same and that
will warrant seem clear and defend the same to him from the suit
saids his heirs and assigns forever against all rightful claims
any manner of all sort
I Amy wife of said Richard Ringen for the consideration to fore
mentioned having signed my consent to my right of dower to the same
In testimony whereof we have set our hand and
seals this 13th day of April 1853
[Signature] Richard C Ringen & s
[Signature] Amy I Ringen & s
Washington, at Richmond [blank] on this a sale within
witnessed occasionally on a Sarah C Ringen negroe and
slave in the following instrument and acknowledged the
same to be his act and deed was
[Signature] Hazen Rice
Recorded 15 May 1853
By G. L. Coffin Clerk
Know all men by these presents That I Peter B Collins
of Hopkinton in the State of Rhode Island County of Bristol
of Arnold's Masters in said State Is constituted by deed of sale of
said slave dated January 5 1852 and recorded in Nuttycut records book
No 19 page 192 1852 and in Hopkinton records book No 11 page
174 to which deed reference is here made To by these presents
give grant bargain sell convey and convey Elizabeth a Negro woman
said Masterly his heirs his assigns and assigns forever to be the rightful
bidder having bidden therefore on a public sale held on the 6th of October 1852
having bidden therefore the sum of five hundred and twenty dollars
the which sum here acknowledge to have been paid by him and
by me received all the right title and interest either active or
dormant which by the said slave Arnold was conveyed in and by
the deed of assignment aforesaid in any the two center lots
of land described in the said deed of assignment as a part of the
town of Charlestown containing about eighty six Ors of tenths
acre with a dwelling house barn and other improvements thereon
for further description of which reference is here made to two
tain deeds as said Arnold on from Thomas I Shurtleff some of Partown
Ringen recorded in book 187 page 163 of the land records of the
Charlestown the other from Daniel I Seabbrooch recorded in some book
page 336 It being however here expressly stipulated that the said
slave form is subject to a lease expiring on the 25th of March 1853
the rent reserved by which is owned by and is to be paid to the under
signed grantor
And also it is expressly stipulated (such having one of
the conditions named at said public sale) that the said slave Is
and shall ever continue to be subject to a right on the part of
John & Meader his heirs and assigns as the owners or owner of the
Arnold Mills below to maintain and keep up a dam at the height of