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$\text{S}^r 1797$
Signed Sealed and Delivered
in my Presence of
[illegible]
Recorded this 24th Day of February 1797
Washington County, Charlestown the Date and Place above
Written Personally appears the above Obligors namely Joseph Davis
and Barbara Davis who acknowledge the above Instrument
to be their free and voluntary Act and Deed and with their hands and seals have thereunto
affixed before me on
Samuel Moore Justice of the Peace
To All People to Whom these Presents Shall Come Greeting
Know that Joseph Thurgood of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations Ye Gentleman for and in Consideration of the Sum of Seven Hundred
and silver Sterling horse in hand and made to my body by Browning Green of Charlestown in
the County and State above mentioned Gentleman the Right whoever I hereby absolutely and
forever sell convey transfer satisfy and confirmed unto the said Browning Green first and foremost thereof the
hereditary estate and Appurtenances thereunto belonging from the said Browning Green his Heirs Executors Administrators
assigns and Assigns forever namely certain Piece of Land situated in and about the said County and Town
a Certain Lot or Piece of Land situated lying and being in the same Town and State above mentioned
and bounded and contained according to the same More or less with a dwelling House
and Other things thereunto standing and there in a Lot of Land bounded and abutted beginning
Northwest at the Land of George Clarke Osterlong on the land of John Clarke Northward on the
Edge of Common Hill East at the Edge of the Road thence along the road to the North West to the
Hurdman Cove swamp then back by d Swamp to d Swamp to the first mentioned
Premises therefore and to hold all the above mentioned Premises and Appurtenances
forever and abide and Enjoy the same as and against all and every other Person or Persons whatsoever in
full right that of and about the delivering and Delivery hence the said Joseph Thurgood on the
sole and only lawful owner of the above said Premises and Appurtenances and
have in my own proper and just full power and Lawfull authority to sell and Dispose of the same
equal and And also for the further securing and Delivery there of these Presents the said Joseph
Thurgood binds himself my heirs forever covenants and agrees forever to warrant forever warrant
and Defend by these Present all the above Land Premises and Appurtenances unto the said
Browning Green his Heirs forever Administrators assigns and Assigns forever against all and
Claims i Do make of any Person whatsoever and the said Joseph Thurgood do hereby Declare
That all the aforesaid Lands Premises and Appurtenances free and Clear of all Encumbrances
Whatsoever and that the said Browning Green his Heirs forever covenants administrators assigns
shall and may Quietly Possess and enjoy the aforesaid Land Premises & Appurtenances
thereunto
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In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the First day of February in
the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy seven the Thirty first year
(American independence 1797)
Signed and sealed
Before me a Justice of
John Collier
Justice of the Peace
Peter Hodgson
I certify that the
above was signed
before me the 1st
February 1777
Wtg. Pldg. Coft. J.P.
Washington ct
Charlestown Rhode Island
Washington ct
Charlestown Rhode Island
I certify that the 3rd day of February this day conveniently appeared Joseph Kenyon
who signed the said deed the same and witnessed it and further witnessed it and made
acknowledgment of the same to be his own act and deed and hand and seal of his
person
John Collier Justice Peace
Know all Men by these Presents that I Joseph Dennis of Charlestown
in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island Edward & Providence Plantation
upon paying and in Consideration of the Sum of Four Hundred and Seventy Dollars
to me in hand well and truly paid by Daniel Williams of Hopkinton in the
County and State aforesaid the receipt Whereof I do by these Presents acknowledge
and content have Given granted Conveyed and Assigned by this Indenture to give
Grant Convey Alien Give fully fully and absolutely Convey and Conform unto
him the said Daniel Williams his Heirs & Assigns forever Two diverse Certain Parcels
of Land situate lying and being in Charlestown aforesaid Containing by
Estimation Three Sixty Acres more or less in the first part that which is
known as the land Containing Eighty Acres more or less bounded as follows namely
beginning at the Northeast corner of this said Parcel at Northwest corner Thomas Hopky
and there South Westerly bounding Eastly by the said Thomas Hopky's land bounded
by Joseph Kenyon's Land Westly bounding Eastly bounded by Isaac Gardner land
and hereafter by Thomas land and Westly bounding Eastly and Northwesterly region by Both
Granites Land & to the South Northwest corner of the other Lot or Parcel bounded by
State Rhode Island and Containing four acres more or less and is bounded as follows namely
beginning at the Northwest corner of the stake standing on the Edge of the road
for distance from Northward page Pond Westward some Simple Pile Wood
from there Westward bounding Southly by Jonathan Newcomb Lyst
Land partly by Edge Francis Coft Land partly by Daniel Stanton Land
Westly bounded by George Gardner's land and partly by Thirty Rocks Land
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