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Know all men by these presents that we John C Kenyon and Ann E Kenyon & Thomas G Kenyon & Samuel
Kenyon heirs’s [sic] cousins’s [sic] in the Right of the said Sarah Branch et al former owners of all that certain lot of land situate in the township of Washington
in the state of Rhode Island to wit in one tenement of the same of the above described however whereas all the right title
and interest of the said Sarah Branch et al in the lands aforesaid do hereby remise release and forever condemn
unto the said John C Kenyon & Ann E Kenyon their heirs and Assigns forever all the right title and
interest of the said Sarah Branch et al in the lands aforesaid to wit in one tenement of the same however and
whereas the said tenement containing by the survey of G W Atwater and others and thereafter more or less
of ten rods in width situated parallel to the highway and parcels in said township containing and more or
less of ten rods in width situated parallel to the highway of Samuel H Ward & Francis H Ward’s lately in hand of
John Smith’s lately on the Highway and Wetmore’s lately on Avenue of the Church
and since formerly belonging to the said Sarah Branch with a dwelling house and
other buildings thereon the same described as situated in said township and contain
thirty acres and eight hundred square feet situated on the Highway nearby to the
property of Peter Bailey Richard Frankland’s Authority on behalf of Kenyon & Kenyon are
on the Plot No. 143 in the said township other premises hereafter.
We therefore bind to sell the same with all the furnitures appurtenances and
the same do hereby convey to the said John C Kenyon & Ann E Kenyon their heirs and
Assigns and we Ann E Kenyon and Thomas G Kenyon and Samuel G Kenyon
wife of the said Thomas G Kenyon for the consideration above named further
do hereby release and quit claim any and whatever right and interest we have in the
said premises to the aforesaid premises in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this 29th day of March AD 1858
To premises of
Caroline Cross to Cross
Charles Cross
James L Ward
John C Kenyon L.S.
Ann E Kenyon L.S.
Thomas G Kenyon L.S.
Samuel G Kenyon L.S.
Samuel G Peny L.S.
Harriet C Peny L.S.
Washington in Charlestown March 29th 1858
Personally appeared John C Kenyon and Ann E Kenyon his wife, Thomas G
Kenyon and Samuel G Kenyon and Harriet G Kenyon his wife signers and sealers of the foregoing indenture
and acknowledged set and sealed the same to be their own free act and deed. Given at the
same time and personally appeared one of the signers of the deed stated in the
same time Harriet G Kenyon immediately and again from her husband and homecoming since
went explained to her by me and acknowledged the same to be her free act and sealing
act and seal since she did not wish to sign it.
Before me
Charles Cross Town Clerk
Washington in Charlestown July 1st 1858
Personally appeared Samuel Peny and acknowledged that the foregoing instrument
by him signed & sealed to be his free act and deed.
Before me Charles Cross St. Clerk
Paid for Due Nurse July 4th 1858
at p. Clerk St. RI
Received July 6th 1858
By Chas Cross St Clerk