The instrument's own words
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for the purposes of this lease only accepted
attorneys and administrators their successors covenant to and with the said Lord that he
shall quietly enjoying the premises against the claims of all persons without let imperturbation
whatever from the said Lord even or any body claiming by descent right title claim etc
from the said Lord’s ancestors and all other persons whomsoever
will perform and be performed And that the said lease shall punctually pay the rent aforesaid
and as the same shall become one and all the covenants appertaining shall observe
well and truly fulfill each and every thing
In Testimony whereof the said parties have set their hands and seals
the day month and year first above written to this and to another instrument of
the same tenor and date
Joseph Masterson L S
Humphrey H Knuckles L S
Signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of
John G Chapman
Wm T Griffin
Washington In
Charleston State 17th 1801
Personally came before me Joseph Masterson and acknowledged the within
instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act
Joseph W G Finson Justice of the Peace
Not for Home 1st 27th 1801
Mr. George March 1st 1801
by Charles Dave & Co
Know all men by these presents that I George P Baggs of
Charleston district of Washington State of Rhode Island aforesaid make and bind me
Charleston on the one part & Thomas W Fenim of Charleston aforesaid appear
on the other part witnesseth that whereas the said George P Baggs
and T. H. Lewis known as the 1st of May stage coachman in 1864 agreed and
witnesseth the better part of the body of the house of Joseph Fenim
late of Stapleton state called it having since deceased and otherwise whereas the
said George P Baggs then bargained sold conveyed aliened and dove convey unto the
aforesaid Joseph Fenim his heirs the right they being in fee and there female parts
of eight parts of the land belonging adjacent on his south side however since release
and proven quitclaim unto the said J. M. Fenim his heirs limited remainder
rights or assigns forever for certain notes or parcels of land part of hunting
house & other building thereon standing lying & being situated on said Chase
zone approximate lot containing his extension for some years of the same
more or less boundary as followeth the beginning at the southeaster corner of the
the spring lot 4 North east corner of the line in part of the old home
farm family boundary bounded on East by Connies east there on a line
runs to a Stakes and stone then southerly down for 4 ft 9 inches
to Stake and stone then southerly three rods to three Rods southerly right four 1/2 rods
to Stake and stone then northerly western one and half rods to the line
of the same well then southerly three rods to a well on the northerly line
of lot no 1 of which the 1st part of the same lowers extending to partition
plot made March 17th 1851 the same southerly on that plot line 15 ft east
comes to George N Emrie or Conrad late southerly on said Connies & Fenim’s
boundary westerly on N. P. S. Preston state north southerly on James Connor’s boundary
till it comes to the first mentioned boundary or starting point & to lot No 4 on partitioning
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folio more 24th of November 1849 containing 3 Rooms have conveyed to
Samuel Finch & Wife, in Pawtucket north, both citizens in Thomas's lane
to have and to hold the above described, with all the privileges and appurtenances there
unto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and in consideration of two and one quarter hundred
dollars cash to me paid. And I, in consideration of the above named value given furthermore all my
right title and interest That I have in and unto the above described premises namely the south
room from the dwelling house of the said Thomas W. Benner’s to the north
room from the dwelling house of the said George P Buggs for myself, my heirs heirs forever
and assigns and assigns convenient to convey to the said Thomas W. Benner’s his heirs
heirs and assigns forever without any exception but for chimneys of all furnaces
said Thomas W. Benner’s wife miss of the said George Buggs do per se and considering
appertaining to the above said lot, relinquishing all my right of wife & power of thirds to
in and unto the before described premises promised, however
In witness of the same we have
hereunto set our hands and appeared our seals this 28th day of February the year
of our Lord 1851
Signed Sealed and delivered
Thomas W. Benner
William M. Buggs
George P Buggs L.S.
Mary Ann Buggs L.S.
State of Rhode Island
Washington Co, Charlestown, Part 1st 1851 Personally came before me
George P Buggs and acknowledged the preceding instrument for his signe to
be his own act and volition act and seal
Before me Judge March 1st 1851
S. L. Court L.S.
Recorded March 1st 1851
Charles Cross S Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas W. Benner of aforesaid town
town city or village of Washington State of Rhode Island and Province and State, resident in
the said and George P Buggs of Charlestown aforesaid, on this day just indentured
that whereas on the said Thomas W. Benner and George P Buggs have in the gth
day of December 1851 agreed in a indenture the 1 lot, that was bought in the
line of forty feet long along the street side extending east, in being in common and undivided
whereas the said Thomas W. Benner agreed to divide the said lot and partition it and to
be apportioned to George P Buggs the following part namely one and one quarter part of the lot
without any exception but for hereby conveying, and in consideration of two quarter hundred
dollars cash to me paid, his heirs forever and assigns forever only, without
any right of land beyond and having line situated in said Charlestown aforesaid
extending by following boundary lines as the above described lot bears boundary on
along the line beginning at the boundary corner of said lot extending east and then left
and extending westerly of the boundary corner of the line in front of the above house premises
to be forty rods part 5 inches of stakes and stone lines Thomas Benner’s and then north
north right part 5 inches in the line and stone lines Thomas Benner’s boundary line one lot
which is the home wall twenty four rods east yet the boundary line of Thomas Benner’s
of the line on east rail forty five feet from Thomas Benner’s line the corner part
of the boundary line line which I come to a rock on the boundary line of lot lot of
in part of the house line that hit’s corner to George P Buggs’s boundary line, aforesaid
month ly, in since flat line that hit’s corner to George P Buggs’s boundary line, aforesaid
on said terrain to the said boundary, on Mary Buggs, both party’s to Thomas Benner’s
come to the first mentioned corner. And to hold the same together with
all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and