The instrument's own words
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1856
Whereas by a deed dated this day, Christopher S. Crandall of Charlestown
has conveyed to Benjamin Tucker of said town a Saw Mill & Lot (reference
being had to said Deed to be recorded) $\frac{4}{5}$ of the right to the stream, the course of the
Saw Mill brook from said Place down wards to the fork of the brook as it now runs
$\frac{1}{2}$ Acre out & his return to said Tucker all his said lands and Land lying
North of said Straightened course, now in consideration thereof the said
Tucker hereby gives grant & convey to said Crandall his Heirs & Assigns
all his right title & interest in & to any land lying South of said course
as straightened & between West and the present brook.
So save and hold the same to said Crandall his Heirs & Assigns forever
the centre of the straightened brook to be the line dividing between
the parties.
Witness my hand & seal this $3^{\text{rd}}$ day of November AD 1856
Executed in presence of
$\times$ Joseph H Griffin
$\times$ Joseph H Griffin
Benjamin Tucker L.S.
Town of Charlestown Nov $4^{\text{th}}$ 1856
Benjamin Tucker acknowledges the above to be his free act & deed hand
& seal before me
Joseph H Griffin Justice of the Peace
Received for record Nov $4^{\text{th}}$ 1856
at 8 o'clock P.M.
Recorded November $12^{\text{th}}$ 1856
by Charles Colwell Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I LaFayette Newport
of Charlestown County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for
and in consideration of the sum of one Thousand one fifty Dollars delivered to me
and paid by the said John Dimond of said Town and County the receipt whereof the said
receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge received delivered & clear
sever own quit claim and my Heirs assigns to remain seized and forever
quit claim unto the said John Dimond his Heirs and Assigns forever
all the right title interest Property lands and demands and claims I shall now
have or of right ought to have or claim or in any way be entitled to a certain the tract
of land known as the town of Charlestown aforesaid and Village of Colleton with
containing half an acre more or less conveyed With the right in the Highways
North on the line of Paul M Clark East on a line of Hundreds of Degreed
and Southly on the line North Cross Roads or otherwise bounded
with all buildings and appurtenances thereon together subject
however to the conditions of a Deed of the same land given to me
by Henry Thompson and Received in Charlestown in 1848 by 8 & Land
Evidence page 84.
To Have and to hold the same with all the rights
privileges and appurtenances thereof or appertaining to the same to the
said John Dimond his Heirs and Assigns forever exempting the same
the conditions before referred to And I the aforementioned LaFayette Newport
or myself Inn for my Heirs Legatees and Administrators do covenant with
the said John Dimond his Heirs and Assigns that I will warrant and
defend the aforementioned premises to the said John Dimond his
Heirs and Assigns forever against the lawful Claims and demands
of all persons claiming by through or under me
And I Sarah R Newport for me and in consideration of the sum paid
my husband to do hereby relinquish to my right of Dower and poise of those
in and to the above described premises For Testimony whereof as