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Washington st Charleston March 12th 1859
William Spiers graze r Charleston
certify that R. Hunter his wife and children are
in my employe’s settlement" by their service
for 3 years free and without salary etc etc etc
Depo’d me
Obadiah Cross Town Clerk
State of Rhode Island March 12th 1859
S S Caleb P.K
Justice of the Peace
Sworn before me March 12th 1859
By the Court 1/100
To all people to whom these presents shall come know that I William Spiers
of the town of Washington in the state of Rhode Island in the county of Providence
do hereby make known that I the said William Spiers manumit free and in consideration of the sum
of ten hundred dollars paid to me by the above named free person’s self and also paid by the
said emancipated slaves in the sum of five hundred dollars paid to me by the said
Charleston slave of Charleston County and state Georgia the receipt whereof the said
I do hereby acknowledge and confirm and further certify that the said emancipated
and free persons are free forever happy and prosperous and that I the said William
Spiers and my heirs descendants heirs and assigns do hereby covenant and agree to hold
them the said emancipated slaves to be free and hold them free forever and ever
By these presents free emancipated graze r liberated hospital and free all and every part
person and emancipated and to have and to hold the said emancipated persons free and a
grant forever beyond all doubt and that I the said William Spiers do hereby grant and release
grant forever beyond all doubt and that I the said William Spiers do hereby grant and release
descendants forever happiness and free and that no person or anyone else shall be a pro
tore to come situated in the Charleston the county of Charleston and in the
state of Rhode Island in the county of Providence knowing that it shall be
marked out and bounded as follows beginning at the street of the town of
Charleston and running North West along the river called the Savannah River until it comes
to the line of James Taylor then turning North West along the boundary line to a stake
marking in the way of James Taylor then turning South East to a stake found near a
rock in the way of James Taylor then East to a stake found near and opposite a shrubbery
and from there running North East to a stake found near the end of the wall of the said
on the other hand turning North West to a stake found to the first mentioned point in
the said I the said William Spiers Grantman of the west side of the said land to be
conveyed right of way over the lands of Henry Remington otherwise known as the said
belonging to the said Charleston and that the said Charleston shall have the said convenience
to be enjoyed also over the road through the town of Charleston by common right of way
the log road over the mud roads since the last boundary line of the road through the hut in the
boundary the road Green road since the road speaks free to the road in the east part of
Charleston half of the road that runs parallel with the road whereas the said Grantman is to do the
do also help of the said road in any case whatsoever whereas the said Grantman is to do the
same from the town limits further east to meet the street of the town opposite to the
said shares and to hold this conveyance and its terms bound foreverly for quiet with all the
appurtenances privileges and conveniences to the same belonging in accordance with all
opportunities pertaining to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
appurtenances to the said convenience to be happier free and with all the
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and their heirs forever, any how they may come or be entitled unto the same
all and singular the same premises or estate of inheritance of said grantor, cognizors and their successors and assigns
unto the said grantees their successors fundy heirs executors and administrators to have and to hold the same
together with that which in my tenure messuage tenements appurtenances of said or noble vide present
Furthermore I the said William Greenman for myself of my own free will desire and declare that I have sold further
conveyed and confirmed and assign the above demised premises to the said Sarah
Greenman and her heirs and assigns the largest share or demand of any person
whatsoever claiming the same by virtue of any deed conveyance or instrument
of a Grantor Greenman who is dead and gone out of this world as I do hereby acknowledge it to be incumbent
on me to state the fact so clearly the said conveyance is made to ensure it shall be to the benefit of the
said Sarah Greenman her heirs at law all of them and none of them and no one else of them in any
way whatsoever unless mentioned in this Instrument whereas we have executed our seals unto the same
and the same this Instrument the day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand
eight hundred and fifty eight and signed by us
Signed Sealed and
delivered in the presence of
Lavia C. Case
William Greenman L S
Sarah Greenman L S
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington S S
Personally appeared William Greenman and Sarah Greenman his wife
gave their witness of the following instrument and acknowledged the same
to be their free and voluntary act and deed hence and then
Sworn for Books August 25 1858
at North Kingstown
December March 30th 1858
Lavia C. Case
C Northston Feb 14th 1858
Before me
Lavia C. Case
Justice of the Peace
At a Regular meeting of the First District Deputy Bench of Probates of Northum
and Cutitukon held in the 18th day of May 1858 it was voted and recorded
that Paul M Clerk the President and Thomas W Cornish Justice of said Bench
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the Church Lot of
funding thereon to the Rhode Island Historical Society Meeting of the W H Rippley
one they were authorized in the same meeting of the said Bench to sign their seals over
convey and deliver to the said Rhode Island Historical Society the dwelling Wm Hilt Rippley
from of all their interest in said lot and the building thereon Given
under my hand
Thomas W Cornish Clerk
Know all men by these presents that we the First District Deputy Probate
Bench of Probates of Northum and Cutitukon in the State of Rhode Island in consideration
received by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island for and in consideration
of the sum of two hundred dollars of the sum of 100 dollars to be paid by the Rhode
Island grantee namely Justice of the State Probates the receipt of which we do hereby acknowledge
have remised released and forever quitclaimed unto the Rhode Island Law society governing body of Probates
Probates their successors and assigns forever quit claim all their right title interest property
claims and demand which ever now have or of right ought to have or claim or
and to a certain part of Land together with the buildings and improvements thereon
situated in Cutitukon County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island and above said lot being
in a rectangular form with side bounds as follows the North the North and South bounds
being six rods long and the East one half three rods long the middle of the