The instrument's own words
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Moreof the above Written Instrument and Every Article therein
Contained shall be utterly Null & Void and of None Effect But upon Due
payment thereof shall Remain on full Force and Virtue in the Law & etc
Witness that I Henry Storey have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 20th day
of January 1799 in the Twenty second year of Independence
Signed Sealed & Delivered At Charleston Washington County
In presence of
[illegible]
J. Woodworth
By [illegible] the 18th Augy 1799 - Voluntary Act & did haveal before
me [illegible] Justice Peace
Know All presbyters to whom these presents shall Come That I Thomas J. Hote Law
Thompson of Charleston in the County of Washington Yeaman and on certain
portion of Forty Eight yellow dollars and fifty cents to me in hand paid by the
signing & sealing hereof have fully & justly paid by Joseph Stanton son of a certain
County afforded He have Given Granted & Conveyed One Certain Lot of the
County afforded by Estimation One Acre be it some more or less opposite Lyne
being in Charleston Washington County afforded with a dwelling house Corn
Stroll thereon standing with all the privileges and Appurtenances there unto
Belonging in Any other Any Wise Appertaining bounding as follows the begining
at the Post of Ned’s House then running Easterly then westerly and so to the
on James Congdon’s land & then it Corners to Ned’s House and to the first
the Granted & Conveyed Premises with all the foregoing privileges
& Appurtenances there unto belonging in tenance that the present Grantor
his heirs Executors Administrators & Assigns forever Grant and to forever
Thompson for me his heirs Executors Administrators & Assigns in the before
the Executing hereof Sam the Due on and others flower in my right Good Right
to dwell and dispose of the same bodily and soul and dispose of the same in
manner as aforesaid and that the Granted & Conveyed Premises is clear of
all Incumbrances and the J. Lodwick Thompson for in Disgage of all
Granted & Conveyed Premises to him of his right of disposition then to
their Executors Administrators & Assigns forever Lawfull Clear
of any Common or Common Whatever to warrant secure defend &
Same Hannah Thompson wife of J. Lodwick Thompson done for the
Consideration aforesaid aforesaid undersign her all her right of owner or Bound
Should shift above Granted and Bargained and sold the same in
Token Presence of the Subscriber this 25 day of Juny 1798 and of the
American Independence the Twenty Second
In presence of
[illegible]
J. Woodworth
Hannah Thompson
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H Charleston in Washington County the day & date first written Personally
Ledrew Thompson his wife [illegible] Acknowledged the within and foregoing
Instrument to be their act & deed hands & seals delivered affoared before me