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4/3/1857 · DEED · book 8 page 174 doc 10815

From WILLCOX BENJAMIN F, WILLCOX MEHITABLE
To CRANDALL BRIGHTMAN life
Premises two acres more or less · tract of land bounded by house of Joseph W. Taylor and road (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED HEALY JONATHAN

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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1849 · DEED · WILLCOX OLIVER → WILLCOX BENJAMIN F · book 7 p 324

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⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

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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175. 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

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