The instrument's own words
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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)
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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