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Ane I, the said Richard C Ringen for car, my hire office to
and Administration do covenant with the said Richter his
this and assign. But at all and before the presenting instrument I am
the Lawful owner A my undivided Share of the Same and that
will warrant seem Peace and defend the same to him from the suit
Richter his heirs and assigns forever against all rightful claims
any manner of all others
I Amy wife of said Richard Ringen for the consideration below
mentioned have hereby surrendered on this 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 court 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 H Collins
of Hopkinson in the State of Ohio late citizen of William P
Snodgrass of Madison in said State is constituted by me attorney of said
Snodgrass date January 5, 1852 and recorded in Montgomery records book
No 19 page 192 1852 and in Hopkinson records book No 11 page
174 to which deed reference is more fully made. By these presents
give grant bargain sell and convey unto Elijah P Dickinson of
said Statey his heirs his assigns and assigns forever to be the rightful
bidder having bidden there at 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 at law
or in equity which by the said Snodgrass was conveyed to me 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 center
lots of the town of Charleston containing about eighty six Ors of cents
acre with a dwelling house barn and other improvements thereon
for further description of which reference is here made to turners
town deeds at said Snodgrass on from Thomas I Shaffer some of Patterson
Ringen recorded in book 187 page 163 of the land records of the
foreston the other from Daniel I Decken recorded in some book
page 336 It being however here expressly stipulated that the said
farm is subject to a lease expiring on the 25th of March 1853
the rent reserved by which is owed 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 land is
and shall ever continue to be subject to a right on the part of
John & Medler his heirs and assigns as the owners or owner of the
Anola Mills below to maintain and keep up a dam at the height of