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To all People to whom these presents shall come Greetings
Know ye that we Roger Lashin of Providence in the County of Washington and State
of Rhode Island Providence and Mary Lashin his wife for the Consideration of Five lbs
and Twenty five Shillings [illegible] and to be paid by my [illegible] Warden of
Charlestown in the County of Washington the Freight whose we Acknowledge have the
same with [illegible] Satisfied and Paid in Full and in every part thereof Delegate and De
liver to the [illegible] Roger Warden his Heir successors and Designates by these presents
have Given Granted Bargained and Sold Conveyed and Confirmed unto the said
Roger Warden his Heir and Assigns forever all that
Our Certain Lot of land lying and sitting on the Town of Charlestown containing by
[illegible] survey boundary acres be the same more or less and known and referred to as Lotten
Beginning at a Beech tree whose History she stands five degrees on [illegsible] boundary
by [illegible] Peter Palmer and Samuel [illegible] then runs by the boundary of the
Land Northerly passing by a [illegible] and then South Westing back to the first Minute
Bounds
To have and to hold all the aforesaid Premises and Appurtenances
with all the Privileges and Commodities to the same belonging or in any wise
Appertaining his and her heirs and their heirs forever And as the said
Roger Lashin and Mary Lashin Do give our seal and our better tenure and Promise
Do Covenant Promise and Convey agree and grant with the said Roger Warden his Heirs
and Assigns that for the duration hence forth we are the Lawful and Lawful
Owners of the above described Premises and am Lawfully Seized and [illegible]
of the same having in our own right brought as a good and absolute Estate of inheritance in
shrewdly having in our own right brought to sell and Dispose of the same in the man
ner as it is done and that the said Roger Warden his Heirs and Assigns forever and Mary
forever by fore and Virtue of these Presents here had Lawfully Purchased
and Paid for have held the same with all the Appurtenances before mentioned together
with all Trees Lumberments whateveres forest the right of Dwellings held by
many [illegible] and Elijah [illegible] Furthermore we the said
Roger Lashin and Mary Lashin for ourselves our Heirs their successors Dominion
Do hereby Covenant and Convey agree to the aforesaid Premises and unto the said
Roger Warden his Heirs and Assigns grant the Lawful Owners and Dominions of said
Premises or Owners whatever they be forever hereby hereafter to Appoint
Owners and Behalf the said Roger Warden forever are here named [illegible]
and Seals this Twenty Day of May of 1874
Signed and Sealed the above written
In the presence of Roger Lashin
Samuel Lashin [illegible]
Robert Stanton Mary Lashin
[illegible] [illegible]
Recorded this Washington the Twenty 4th Day of May 1874
Day of June 1874
The [illegible] Roger Lashin & Mary Lashin be personally
[illegible] and acknowledged the above and requesting be the
Act and Deed hands and seals thereunto Affixed
Perfore Robert Stanton J. C. Blow