The instrument's own words
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Know all Men by these presents That J Rhode Island State of Chartestown in
the county of Kenty Amounting to and in Consideration of the Summe of Eighty five Pounds Sterling
in hand Paid (and a Quartery of An acre of be amo by lying to the South ward of the Line
between her & her husband at this Deed) by Joshua Truggan of the same Towne and County aforesaid
Deisease the Right whereby I the said Rhoda Hall have for my house center and Accomodations
Be’t’wn by Dorsburghan within the said Southward Truggan has the following Acres and Convenances to be
forever given and for the Consideration above Said I the said Rhoda Hall & her son Gown Hall
all alone except for a Dwelling house to the said Joshua Truggan his Heirs and Assigns for ever
One Colon Lot of land situated between a certain Oak and a Certain Pine lying by the South line
of said Chartestown And also the Right and Title belonging to the following Assignments of Rogers Come’t’h
But whereas some of the Eighty five pounds Said Consideration shall be conveyed back to me the same
with 30 Grains bar’d be laid in the Old Common lot for some Time Ago by the ball common
to be the line for the future Now therefore (and for the aforesaid Sums) hereby grant and release to the said
Joshua Truggan his Heirs and Assigns have and hold by Warranty an Indenture bearing a Signature of
To have and to Hold the above described Premises with all the Privileges & Appurtenances thereunto
Belonging to him & his Heirs substituting unto the said Joshua Truggan his Heirs and Assigns
forever more; & the said Rhoda Hall shall be forever exempt from paying her taxes for the aforementioned
Premises; and the said Joshua Truggan his Heirs and Assigns shall have the said Joshua Truggan
Norman Warren and Diana and the above premises forever free of the lawful Demands of Demands either of
the Same and Assigns for evermore Given and granted Simple forever James Moore simple foremost Hannah w
Rygans and others and grants Premises Simple forever James Moore simple foremost Hannah w
That wife of the said Rhoda Hall for the Consideration above Said I do hereby Grant and release all the rights of
Dower or Powers of title to the said Joshua Truggan and his Heirs forever In Witness whereof we have hereunto
our Seals set and signed and delivered this third Day of May 1790
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In presence of
Binj. Hoppy 91
Stephen Franklin
Tomas Ragman
Rhoda Hall (LS)
Hannah Hall (LS)
Washington County Certifies that the Deed Above Written the
Dated this Day Juny 18 1790
Signed and sealed Rhoda Hall presented on aforesaid to be her voluntary Act and Deed hand and seal since
for the Purchaser therein Dated before me
By Benj. Hoxie Justice of the Peace
To all People to whomse this Present shall come Greeting Please Know That I
Stephen Hoppy of Chartestown of Chartestown in the county of Washington in the state of Rhode Island
40 Acres Land and in Consideration of the sum of One hundred and Fifty pounds Lawful Money
to me in hand Paid and by this Deed by found by Every part of the landment in Remainder and state aforesaid
Convenant and Agreeing that having given the Right whereby I the said Stephen Hoppy claim the same to be
Settled Contracted and By this deed convey presented Of the laws of this country Claim states that the
said Rhoda Hoppy and the His Heirs and Assigns forever conveying that all Future Interest
Property Claim and Demand for and until the Last Return Part of land Estate having be
being in Chartestown Affairs it consisting by limitation One Hundred and One Acres bis
More or Less and it Bound is as follows Beginning On the South East corner of
Daniel Edwards Land and thence Running Easterly by Edwards Land near certain
Trams.
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Chains to a heap of stones there About South 48° 9° Degrees West Twelve
Chains and Seventy links lengths to a Stone Wall there about South 48° 9° Degrees
West Ten Chains & by a Note this South Eleven Degrees West to the Brook called
Pequashquut Brook North Three Dawn Stream 25 Degrees East comes to a Dick the
North side by a Dick between Fourten from there Meeting at the Stones leaving Den Anger in the
Field of Joseph & Moses True that is Quitclaimed by me Edward Hopey, Blend & Stephen
Hopey and from there North easterly by and Three links Eastward 65 & High-head Do brook
Low then North easterly by the Brook-head & for the first Minute distance
To have and to Hold all the above described lands & the same Claiming them
With all the Appurtenances pertinents & accompaniments the same Claiming them
in any Wise whatsoever liking from the said Edward Hopey, his Heirs and Assigns forever
Likewise Conveying & transferring to and Befored the before Mentioned lands for which the
above said Edward Hopey his Heirs and Assigns forever Assigning the same Law full Claim
to Demand and any peace Propos of Propos Malicious Persons however have Claiming the
by Order on the said Stephen Hopey And I’m’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d