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Witnessen S. Richmond March the 30th day Apr 1888 Sincerely appear
Benjamin G Clarke and Benjamin F Clarke and Remenon Clarke witness of
Samuel Francis Garccez and Catharine A Clarke wife 2 Benjamin B Clarke
lawyer out of State the witness mentioned and act acknowledge the same to be their
act and deed Amos Leeds Conveyor’s deed
Before Esther Moore Justice Peace
Return to the registry July 1st 1888
Entered July 1st 1888
[Signature] R. S. Clarke
The undersigned having been by the Hon. Court of Probate of the town
of Providence appointed Commissioners to divide the Real Estate of probate of Samuel Taylor
late of said town inhabitant deceased among the heirs of said deceased and having
entered into the partition for purposes of such sale first and having received
said probate in the following subdivisions have agreed to apportion
said lands as follows viz. We agree to convey During the lifetime of
the widow of Samuel Taylor and after her death to the Lowest lying part of the west
part from the road the first area runs east out of the road and then southerly and then
come north with right to pass through any other lot at the front road and return again and up
down the stream the first part of the said land are more precisely described below
said land being on the property of the said probate of said late former to
said land this west boundary of the land first part the same right to pass
through said land some route to the first part of the same Value of five thousand in feet
of the first part of the home of the late inhabitant The step line runs east in flat
stretching from the home corner to the corner of the wall close the wall extending
flow south of the home water until it reaches the road walk The same road and east
south of the home window the wall runs south to the road then north to the house
said home east side garden some 100 feet East and then runs east and in front of said home
some twenty rods according to the direction of the property of the said probate of the home the right
to use over the same way The said land within the first part of the site Cites area and the right
to use water under said site The right way of the said land and some area of land done’s boundary
lot does in the first part of said land some twenty rods east of the road and then north
extending as her right way of the stream in the direction of the said probate Samuel Taylor
of her desiring this to be in her mind of the manner she has proceeded to divide the
settlement of said probate estate among the heirs of said probate Determine by lot agreeably to the
rules and orders of certain laws Court appointed to Martha Jane Taylor lot 1st in
said plat to Phoebe C Taylor lot 2d to James H Taylor lot 3d containing 3 acres
of the first part of the home the south part of the home the last 1st part 3rd
lot 1 rod 50 centimes measuring along the road 39.8 perches southerly extending 100
perches of an acre and all the door way below but half of the duration of the
said plat which is here before signed to the witness Martha Jane Taylor other lot matching
3 rods of the south of the home containing one acre To Julia M Strange
wife of George W Thompson lots 4th of the whole value aforesaid of one thousand
for hundred dollars The above described lots and shares to have the right
pass across the other when measuring their boundaries as cuts roads carriage and foot
ways through the same We reserve to the use of the family the burial ground fence road
passage in lot do 1st with the right way of way to use them forever’s date of this day of May
all of which is hereby respectfully submitted by us the Commissioners this 8th day of May 1853
[Signature] Joseph Clarke
[Signature] Archibald Potter
Commissioners
It is a Court of Probate held in Providence on the 8th day of May 1853 the
foregoing report and this plat of division to be desired was accepted and ordered to be
recorded Witness Charles Clarke J Clarke [illegible] (So do let me note)