The instrument's own words
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Know all men that I Alice Healy now residing in South Kingstown Widow of Mead
& Healy formerly of Charleston deceased in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars clear
paid me by Jonathan Healy of said Southkingstown the receipt of which it hereby acknowledge
agree and for other good & valuable considerations do here give grant bargain sell etc
convey with said Healy his Heirs & Assigns all over the lot and parcel entitled which I have
under the Will of my said Husband or Merchant in said Charleston i am to
receive Total Remainder from my said Husband inclusive of any debts or advances however
being having to the Devise and Reserves of said husband for anticipation and also all right title
interest I may in any way have any devise herein however therefore and hold the same to said person
Healy his Heirs & assigns forever and said considerations do fully discharge me of all
claims have upon said estate or against said Healy as Administrator upon her husband's
Estate for support of provision for my comfort out of said estate
In witness whereof I have set my hand & seal this 28 day of March AD 1851
Executed in presence of
Witness William G. Case
Joseph H. Potter
Alice T Healy LS
State of Rhode Island
Charlestown March 23 AD 1851 Alice Healy acknowledges
the foregoing to be her free act and deed signed hand and seal
Before me
For and Record’d March 23rd 1851
Joseph H. Griffin Justice of the Peace of the State
1847 at 60d. Alice T. L.
Recorded March 23rd 1851
by Chas Ames Clerk
Know all men by these presents that Benjamin G. Wolcott
of Charlestown in the County of Washington St. of Rhode Island in
consideration of one hundred dollars more than I have already paid to Brighten
man Cantwell of said Charlestown to me have given grant bargained and
sold delivered and convey grant bargain sell and confirm unto the
said Brightman Cantwell his heirs Assigns forever a certain
tract of Land lying in said Charlestown containing two acres more or
less and bounded as follows beginning at the southeast corner of said lot
at the house of Joseph W. Taylor whose home formerly as the well understands
on the east boundary of the 도로 [road] Joseph Cantwell which runs to the
Northeast corner of said lot where Monthly Westly and Fastly 23 rods as
the wall now stands until it comes to a Stone in the wall
marked L. M. West by North North West onto M. M. W. West
to the stone then Eastly on said wall until it comes to said People
W Taylor lot then Eastly on said Taylors Land as the wall now
stands to the first mentioned boundary
To Have and to Hold the same with the rights perquisites and
appurtenances thereof to his Heirs his Executors and Assigns forever and the
agree with the grantor the Heirs his Executors Administrators and Assigns that
the said grantor is the sole and lawful owner of the aforesaid premises
signed has processed herself in the same in right to do so simply with good
and lawful power to sell and convey the same in the manner aforesaid That however
the his Heirs and Assigns shall and may at all times employ People for his own
have peaceable and lawful possession and enjoyment of said premises free from
clear of all other people rights titles and encumbrances and that said Grantor his
Heirs his Executors and Adminsitrator the said premises to said Grantor his
Heirs his Executors and Assigns against the Lawful claims and demands of all persons
to the deed hereof will forever warrant seize and defend sia Cantwell
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is to maintain them all the fence sound set against said Milroys Amos &
Mehitabel Milroy wife the aforementioned Benjamin S Wilcox in consideration
of the sum aforesaid paid me by my Husband & me hereby release and forever quitclaim
to the said Benjamin Wilcox all my right title and interest in my right of Bound
and Tenure of Lands in and to the above described and granted premises
Witness whose hereby we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 14 th
day of March 1857
Signed Sealed &
delivered
in presence of
Charlotte Cross
Caroline G Cross Benjamin S Wilcox L S
Mehitabel Wilcox L S
State of Rhode Island
Washington Co - Charlestown March 14 th 1857
Who appearing before me, Benjamin S Wilcox and Mehitabel
Wilcox his wife and acknowledging the within and preceding instrument
by their signatures to be their genuine act and deeds hers & seals
Charlotte Cross Town Clerk
Received for Record April 1st 1857
By Order April 9 1857
By Chas Cross Town Clerk
Know ALL MEN that I Jonathan Pelety both of South Kingstown State of
Rhode Island having been duly appointed by the Court of Probate of said Town
Guardian of the Estate of my Father Charles Pelety, Thomas P Pelety, Abner & Jonathan
Pelety, hereby for themselves Pelety’s hereby & formally Pelety, by authority from the
Court of Probate of said place for good & valuable consideration & especially
for the sum of three thousand dollars paid will for said Estate without right & remedy of
Contest in the hot lottery after conference made by me with William Case &
Chas Chateaubriand as hereby give grant bargain sell convey and assign forever to the
heirs assigns all the right title & interest which said Estate however have or
more here in and to a tract of Land in said Chateaubriand containing approx 100 acres
more or less, beginning at South West corner of said tract of Property bounded North
running easterly Course, Northwesterly, on land of George Corning running North
running easterly Course, Northwesterly, on land of George Corning running North
South Eastly by Course, bounded Northwesterly, on land of William Case & the
South Eastly by a Course coming to the North West corner of Abner Pelety’s soil,
quarter by a brook which runs the same course as the Brook running south
to Charlestown Clerk Course running Southwesterly, then Eastward second
led to the Highway running thereafter Eastward to the Forge formerly belonging
to the Highway running thereafter Eastward to the Forge formerly belonging
by Lewis Coppe’s Lotage Corner running Southwesterly, & finally by Highway to
Point of Ground, or however otherwise described, it being the same tract of Land known as
Pelety’s Right of Wittness & Memory, granted the sale to said Case & reference
hereby made to his living Deed dated January 11th 1846 to the right of the
said Minor & Case on Rhode Island in said Charlestown, & the Guardianship on
the side Jonathan Pelety, all hereby for good and valuable considerations convey to said
Case & Heirs forever all his right title & interest in the Premises
To Have and hold the same with all its appurtenances to said Case his Heirs
and assigns forever, And hereby a part of the Covenant of convenience that
the said grantor is to give a full & complete warranty express her
after mentioned the side Grantee Pelety acts hereby for himself the said
Executor & administrator covenant and engage to & with said William Case
his Heirs and Assigns that he will hence fully undertake to sell and convey all the
Estate of said Minor and that he has complied with all
the requisites of the Law necessary to the validity of this sale, That the said