4/13/1799 · DEED · book 4 page 260 doc 11445

260 These May Certify that we Common that we the subscribers being requested by Joseph Stanton sr and Henry Stanton both of Charlestown County of Washington State of Rhode Island, to be Witnesses to the Contractual reasonable and lawful Session in our Presence agreeing given by the said Henry Stanton to the said Joseph Stanton senior of all the real Estate of the said Henry Stanton lying in Charlestown Town called Stantons to the Joseph Stanton senior to Forever have and to hold the Eighteenth Day of February One Thousand Seven hundred and ninety Nine 1799 Jos Gardner Simeon Clark Charlestown Washington County March 6th 1799 Personally appeared Henry Stanton the witness mentioned above and acknowledged the present writing to be his and his signature to the mortgages alluded to in the within memoir Joseph Stanton sr August 6th to the Copy witness on this fact on the other side And that there has been Voluntary assent that the said Lucas signing to the Certificates and for Advice of the same Charles Stanton Before Piley [illegible] Justice Peace The foregoing Certificate and Acknowledgement made March 6th 1799 By Piley [illegible] J. P. To all People & to whom these Presents shall come I Ambrose Lewis of Charlestown in Washington County for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars in current money of Thomas Lewis of said town and also to settle all Account money and other forms until the said Thomas Lewis One Certain Lot of Land lying and being in the said Charlestown called the southern side of my fathers land in the same Lot of Life and in perpetuity and bounded and abutted as follows [illegible] Washington on the Agents Land Westward on Land in Possession of Oliver Rawson and Easterly on High way other way not otherwise bounded or described the Premises Give and grant and promise and convey and assign to the said Thomas Lewis his Heirs and Assigns forever and to the said Ambrose Lewis also my heirs my heirs and Assigns forever warrant and defend the above Premises forever with all the Aftenures to the same belonging or any other Appurtenances with the said Thomas Lewis his heirs his heirs and Assigns forever and the said Ambrose Lewis Give and the Consideration above Expressed Promise sign and move and warrant and Defend the above Premises forever unto the said Thomas Lewis his heirs and Assigns Forever against all Lawful Claims Demands of any Person or Persons whatever In Consideration whereof the said Ambrose Lewis have determined all my deeds and affirmed the same this 30th day March 1799 Signed Isaac Leland Of Presence of Ben Mosley Grove Smithless The said Lewis (in the Presence of the witnesses before the signing and sealing Ambrose Lewis (seal)

261 Charleston March 20th Day 1799 Personally appeared the above named and sworn Amber Moore and she acknowledged the Hand wrote Deed to be her own Act and Deed for the Purpose therein Described before Me Signed Sealed & Deld 20th 1799 By Peleg Coffs for Town Clerk Benjamin Hussey Justice Dunn Be it known That I Thomas Lewis of Charlestown in Washington County Yeoman for the Consideration of one hundred and fifty Dollars paid to me in hand by the Honest George Morgan in fee and conveyance unto him and his Heirs forever the a certain Piece of Land situate in the Commonwealth containing about Sixty Acres bounded North by the Land of Benjamin Lawton South by the Land of Matthew Onslow East by the Land of Benjamin Lawton West by the Land of John Gorton and partly on the Shore of the Great Pond on the Southern Land and part of Henry Lewis Musher Land on the East Shore the same may be further identified by the marks and monuments as follows where and noted the above named and sworn George Morgan from the SE the above and by the Hand of Amber Moore her Foregoing Conveyance from the SE with the said Thomas Lewis from the SE the said Thomas Lewis Entering by the SE with the said Thomas Lewis from the SE my survey map marked boundaries and Dimensions confirm that some Lewis Survey Stay of the aforementioned Order in formerly’s form for some all the boundaries in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 20th Day March 1799 The Condition of the above Deed such that if the aforementioned Hussey has not returned Administrators or Assigns either way by law the said Hand and Seal the aforesaid Hussey has not returned Administrators or Assigns on or before the 20th Day March in the Year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine then the foregoing Deed shall be null and void Whereas the sum shall remain in lieu Fore Signed Sealed & Delivered by the Presence of Benj Hussey George Americas Thomas Lewis LPe Charlestown March 20th Day 1799 Personally appeared the above named and sworn Thomas Lewis and acknowledged the foregoing Deed to be his voluntary Act and Deed and for the Purpose therein Described before Me This Deed Made & Sealed 20th March 1799 By Peleg Coffs for Town Clerk Benjamin Hussey Justice Dunn