FromTHOMAS BENJAMINlife ToDAVIS PRESERVED JR Consideration one hundred dollars Premises one hundred acres · lot of land lying by a sandy cove (Charlestown)
Back — where this land came from
deed Father Samuel Scott and Peter Wright
“deed of the same given to me by Father Samuel Scott and Peter Wright dated March 1860”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land
Instrument David W. Lonsdale $2.5
Charles Cross 475
Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Thomas of Charlestown in the
Town of Washington and state of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of one hundred
dollars paid me in hand by foreground Thomas of said Charlestown the receipt of which I hereby
acknowledge hereby bargain sell and convey quit claim the said David Davis his heirs and
assigns forever a certain lot of land lying by a sandy cove containing by estimation
one hundred acres or the same more or less for the boundaries of which reference is
had to a deed of the same given to me by Father Samuel Scott and Peter Wright
dated March 1860 and recorded in Book B Page 28 evidence in said
Charlestown page 384 I do have and to hold the same with all the privileges
and appurtenances to the same belonging to the same David Davis his heirs and assigns
forever And I the said Benjamin Thomas for myself my heirs executors and
administrators do covenant with the said David Davis his heirs and assigns that I will
covenant and defend to the same to him the said David Davis his heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
The condition of this deed is such that whereas I the said
Benjamin Thomas have given a mortgage promissory note for the sum
of one thousand dollars loving currency due date with these presents and made
payable to the said foreground Davis for or over five years or other date with interest
on the interest to be paid annually on the 20th day of March and each year with
interest I the said Benjamin Thomas my heirs executors administrators and
assigns assign shall pay said note of maturity together with the interest
thereon according to the tenor thereof therefore this clear shall be void otherwise
to be and remain in full force and effect Furthermore I the said
Benjamin Thomas do hereby contract and apportion the said David
Davis for his executors appointed administrators and assigns irrevocably
with full power of substitution and revocators for me and in my name
or in his heir or their names or name of any time in case any default be there
made in the payment of said note or the annual interest due thereon the said
I authorize the said process executors of such default shall continue for the
term of thirty days that is thirty days after the expiration of the said thirty days
twenty days notice of such default in some one of the places where said
premises this Site and or in my name
morele execute seal acknowledge and deliver to the purchaser or conveyer
thereof any deed or deed that may be necessary to convey such premises
or had however a any attorney full power to convey the said sole from time to time
to my said attorneys full power to receive the payment of said sole from time to time
said I shall have and authorized my said attorneys to receive the payment of all the expenses incurred
in such Sale to apply and appropriate the same as well as other things for the payment of the
note hereby mentioned and ordered title to the same hereby agreeing that in case of a sale for less full of the
payment of said note shall be considered the purchase of said note shall be considered
and paid over and on the day of such sale accountably me my heirs or assigns
such sale over and above the amount thereby I hereby ratifying and confirming
such Sale or sales as may be the case or caused to be made to any person or persons
In witness whereof thereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of
March 1864
Benjamin Thomas S.
In presence of
Charles Cross
Richard A. Burdick
Beginning to be Charles town March 19th 1864 personally appeared Benjamin
Thomas and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his proper and
voluntary act and deed Before me
Charles Cross Town Clerk
Received for Record March 19 the 1864 at 3 o'clock P M
and delivered to Lewis bro S. C. L.
The page as recorded
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