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Signed Sealed and Delivered
in Presence of
Simon Ray
Thomas Ray
Recorded this Day
Novr 29th 1801
by Poly Rely Coft Justr of the Pce
Jonathan Tucker
Joshua Tucker
H. Russell witness in Washington County
the 29th day of November 1801 before witnesses personally appeared
Jonathan Tucker and Joshua Tucker and acknowledged
to have given executing the instrument to be his signed and sealed
and Deed Indenture and Sale Conveyance of the same
Before me Poly Rely Coft Justr of the Pce
The Acknowledgment of Washington Co
Recorded and filed this 29th Day
of March 1802
by Poly Rely Coft Justr of the Pce
State of New York in the County of Washington and
Town of Salem the 29th Day of November 1801 personally
appeared before me in the Parish Beckett Resident and acknowledged
to have signed the foregoing instrument to be his for a Deed Indenture
of Sale to execute and deliver
Joshua & Jonathan Tucker
Acknowledged before me the Day and Date above written
Simon Ray witness
To all people to whom these presents come
Come Crossing Knowles of the Town of Cortland in the County
of Washington and in State of New York Dimension and in consideration of the
Sum of One Hundred and seven and one half Dollars in hand Paid will and hereby
grant bargain sell convey and assign unto him and his heirs foreverman
the Premises of the boundary of the Parish Beckett Resident and acknowledged the
of the Municipality of the boundary of the Parish Beckett Resident and all other part
Contenances and appurtenances of any nature and of every part of the inhabitants
or Districte within the D' Polye (Coft) Justr of the Pce Conveyors and Administrators
forever but however these Premises Grant warrants to all Extended to the Heirs’
and Successors unto him the said Polye (Coft) Justr of the Pce Heirs and Assigns forever
One certain Parcel of land situate lying and being in the Parish of Beckett in the County of
Washington containing by Estimation only about five acres more or less situated on the
North side and boundary as follows beginning at the East side of Highway
west north west boundary of the Washington and by Poly Rely Coft Justr of the Pce
thence Southwesterly as the Highway runs South for a length of Seventy rods thence
North by East or North by East about Seventy rods thence South east through the
North by East of the lot of Thomas Ray and thence South east through the
North East by East two hundred feet thence North East by North East a length
North East by North East sixty five degrees West thence South East through the
of more than South eastern boundary Court to the first point of the first boundary
the said Knowles promises same and secure the property conveyed to be quiet
Mentioned boundaries North east by Highway North east by on the second
East by other boundaries on the second land and parties on the third side to the first
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Know all men by these presents that I James Allen of the town of Scituate in the county of Providence in the state of Rhode Island do hereby for myself my heirs executors and administrators do hereby covenant promise and
agree that I and my heirs and with the said Peleg Coggs for his heirs and assigns and that before any court or justice to the
Executing and Delivery hereof his hand I save from the said Peleg Coggs and lawful heirs of the said person
Demised and Conveyed Premises and am forever lawful seised in fee simple of the said premises
in my Memory I agree not to act as a good prudent and absolute tenant of the habitation in
Simple tenure having any right good will houses and parcels sufficient thereunto and
Devised and conveyed the same in memory of the said Peleg Coggs for his heirs and his Husbands
Successors and assigns my heirs forever by these presents and by these presents lawfully
Seised in fee simple and fully able to convey and transfer the same free and clear of
all encumbrances whatsoever known either natural or artificial
FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of five shillings paid to me James Allen of the town of Scituate in the county of
Providence in the state of Rhode Island by the said Peleg Coggs for his heirs and
Demised and Conveyed Premises and am forever lawful seised in fee simple of the said
have the said Peleg Coggs for his Heirs and assigns forever by these presents and
I do hereby the said James Allen lawful heirs of the said person
or Persons Whatever And the said James Allen with the said James Allen with both For
Conversation Afterwards hereby fully and entirely by way of quit claim and forever do
his right of tenure and in lawyers of third of an acre in the said Peleg Coggs Demised
and Conveyed Premises located in the said Peleg Coggs for his heirs and his Husbands
successors and assigns of the said James Allen and James Allen his Wife have
witness whose hands and seals this first Day of April in the
year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven
and twenty first year of American Independence 1797
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In the Presence of
Abraham Allen
Elizabeth Allen
James Allen
Anna his
wife Allen
Recorded this Day
November 30th 1797
by Peleg Coggs for me S.C.
W. R. Kingston S. J. of Charleston the Day and
Date in the text written Presently appeared before me there
James Allen and James Allen his Wife
Signatures and confessed that the within and foregoing Instrument
& he the free voluntary act and Deed with their hands and
seals the same affirmed and sworn before
Peleg Coggs Justice of Peace