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Know all men by these presents that I Welcome Card resident of Charlestown County of Kent stating convenient tenement
of me desire sell to you prime Card by lease hold of leaseholdes Rhode Island the subscript whereof I do
hereby acknowledge to receive and waive forever quit claims unto the said Card for his heirs and
estate a lot of land situated in Charlestown aforesaid containing four acres more or less
bounded on the north by the North by a stake which from the corner bounded by a brook and running a North
West course until it comes to the said Card bounds land bounded that by land belonging to the
said Card bounds until it comes to a brook, thence Souththerly bounded on said brook until
it comes to the bounds four acres more or less
To have and to hold the same together with all the privileges and
appurtenances thereof to the said Card his heirs and assigns forever, so that neither
the said Welcome Card nor my heirs nor any person or persons claiming form
me under me or through me in the name right of a tenant, heir or shareholder will in
any way, or means, have claim or demand any right or title to the aforesaid premises
or their appurtenances or to any part piece of parcel thereof
forever. In witness whereof I the said Welcome Card have hereunto set my Hand
and seal this 11th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty seven from
Welcome Card L.S.
In presence of
Charles Connis
Registered to a
Charlestown Town File 11th 1864
Personally came Welcome Card and ack acknowledged the within instrument
by him signed to be his free act and deed
Before me
Charles Connis Town Clerk
Recorded for Review Feb 11th 1864 at 11 o'clock A.M. and entered
by Charles Connis T. Clerk
Know all men that we Vanun Connis & Phile P Connis
right of the said Welcome of Charlestown County of Kenting of Washington &
State of Rhode Island to assure the payment of money, the to the
Wakefield Institution for savings a Corporation chartered by the Gen
court Assembly of Rhode Island and located in South Kingstown
County of Washington and State of Rhode Island the hereby recognize
all and every convey unto said Institution and its assigns a certain tract
of land situate in said Charlestown containing by estimation forty acres
by the same owner or his heirs and is bounded as follows (beg) beginning at the
Southeast corner of land of the heirs of Jonathan Field thence running
thence easterly
through easterly
to a stake and thence southeasterly to a stake and thence southeasterly on the boundary Estate on
the beginning to land formerly owned by Robert Sprague Estate on said land
land of title of hundred of Conrad Brown Estate and on said land
or great meadow & piece called the corner to land of said Welcome Card on the line
may be bounded.
To have and to hold the same to said Institution and its assigns
forever, Provided. However that said Vanun Connis his heirs
executors administrators or assigns, shall pay to the Wakefield Institution for
savings a certain promissory note of even date herewith, for the sum of Love