The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that we
John Harvey we say here his Wife (she being Daughter of Thomas and Ester Sachem,
late of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island
Deceased) for consideration of the sums of Nine Pounds lawfully acknowledged to be
paid to us in hand paid before the executing hereof by Gideon Burdick of said
Charlestown Clerk smith the receipt whereof we hereby acknowledge our
selves to have satisfied contented and paid have given granted bargain sold
conveyed and confirmed by these presents for our selves our heirs executors
& Assigns all that we convey and confirm unto the said Gideon Burdick his heirs
and assigns forever one acre of a certain lot of Land lying in said Charlestown
containing by estimation one acre the same more or less bounded as follows
Northesterly on the highway Eastesterly on the Meadow brook and Westerly on a
former highway Southesterly on however otherwise the same may be bounded or
be bounded lying the same Lot of land which Thomas Ning bought from the late
= cham bought of Isaac Thayer of may more fully appear by the Deed or more
To Have and to Hold all the one or all our right to 1 Acre of
Land with all the appurtenances privileges rights and Commodities to the same
Belonging in or any wise appertaining unto the said Gideon Burdick his
heirs and assigns forever to him and his heirs only proper use delight and benefit
for ever and no not the said John Harvey nor Mary his Wife for our selves our
heirs executors and administrators do covenant grant and to warrant to and with the
said Gideon Burdick his heirs and assigns that at the above and before the impelling here
of we are the true and lawful owner of the above bargain pumferise are
of land and are lawfully seized or possessed of the same in our own proper right
as of good property and absolute Estate of inheritance in the same simply however in
our selves good right to sell and Dispose of the same in manner above said and
that the sd Gideon Burdick his heirs and assigns shall and may at all times here
after by force and virtue of this present peacefully and peaceably Have and
rise and possess the same with all the appurtenances free from all manner of
former or other Incumbrants bargains Sales Leases Mortgages Wills Entails Jointures
Dowries Judgments executions or heritaments Whatever More we the
sd John Harvey and Mary his wife for our selves our heirs executors and
administrators do covenant & agree the before bargain pumferise to him the
said Gideon Burdick his heirs & assigns against the consent for all be’s
proofs purchases or conveyances forever to be convent’d whereas a deed’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d