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This indenture of Lease made and executed this Twenty fifth day of
March 1 eight hundred and fifty three by and between Welcome Brown of
Charlestown in said county of Washington and state of Rhode Island of the first
part, and Pardon Card of said Charlestown of the second part Witnesseth
that in consideration of the rents and covenants hereinafter mentioned to be
said and performed by the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns
said Welcome Brown as herby lets lean and lets hire to his said Pardon Card my farm for
the time of one year the said Pardon Card is to pay the said Welcome one hundred
Dollars for the rent of said place, Seventy four Dollars of the said rent is to be
done in work on said place, ten dollars of this amount is for cutting brush
on said pasture Pardon Card is to cut all the brush that has been cut on the
ground where he has cut the two great prairies and to cut them in a
workmanlike manner several seconds he is to have fifteen dollars for carrying off stones
of said Meadows the Lower meadow and Lower North of the orchard lane and
three Meadows Southward of the home place and the last orchard where the Plants
he is to plough at the Meadow that joins the Brook or where the old pine
tree stands he is to plough as low as the old alluvia more or less the
said Save is to seed down all of the ground where the corn grew last year, and
the said Welcome is to furnish plows and harness for the same the said Card is to plant
Northwest orchard with potatoes three slabs stable manure, South orchard pota-
toes or beans of stable manure the last orchard he is to plant the old pine
with potatoes and the south prairie to be planted if there is manure enough
the said Save is to plough all of the said gardens he is to draw all of the toes
out of the hills first he is to use all of the toes of the toes before cutting any more
The said Card is to occupy one half of the house and the said Welcome one
the other half for his own use the said Card agrees to leave the farm and
house in as good order as he takes it the said Save agrees not to sell hay
or wood cut on the place and furthermore the said Welcome reserves the Shop
for his own use but the said Save owns the cellar
In Testimony whereof we have set our hands and seals this twenty fifth
day of March AD 1853
Welcome Card L.S
Pardon Card L.S
Witness
David C. Card
Recorded April 8 1853
By Charles Jones T. Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I William Ellis of Charlestown
County of Washington & State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum
of Fifty dollars to me in hand before the executing & delivery hereof well and
truly paid by George P Daggs of the town county and State aforesaid the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have remise release & quit claim unto the said
George P Daggs his heirs and devises forever all the right title interest
and property of right to me belonging as an Heir at Law to the estate
of Joseph Ennis late of Charlestown Said conveying in Three undivided
lots of Land bounded as follows (to wit) Lot 1 bounding Southerly in
line of George B Donaldson meet On the Rail Road North westerly in line of
Thomas and Dennis Ennis and Easterly by the Garden Boundary Line Lot
2 Bounded west on Pewatucket River north Eastly and Southerly in
line of Thomas Ennis and Southerly in Line of Arnold Kiser Lot 3 begin
ing North of the Rail Road boundary Westerly by Line of Dennis Ennis
northerly by Dewatucket River Easterly Southerly and finally Westerly by
Thomas Ennis and the Rail Road with a Dwelling house and other building
thereon Standing and altogether estimated to contain one Hundred acres
be it the same or more or less for a more accurate description of the same