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To all People to Whom these Presents Come Greeting
Know ye That I Joseph Saunders of North Kingstown in Kent County and State of the said United States
for the Consideration of Five hundred & seven hundred & thirty Dollars paid to me in full Satisfaction of
Nathan Saunders of the same County and State upon a certain Bond given by said Benjamin
Will and Company unto me the said Nathan Saunders his Heirs and Assigns for one
Hundred & fifty of a certain Piece of Land called my Long Meadow lying and being in Christiana Hundred
convening by Situation and by Lines to be the same More or less Being the South Part and
that which belonged to Nathan Saunders the late Samuel Saunders late of Kent County England whose
son he was in his last Will and Testament devised to said Joseph Saunders Nathan Saunders
Daughter Vannah Saunders and Daniel Saunders in equal Division and diverse a
which South Part with the Lands they had Shared and stood in Possession and owned a
as follows Beginning on the South West Corner of my Tract bounded on the East
Part by the West boundary of Nathan Saunders' party bounded on the North
Part by the West boundary of the lands of Benjamin Both late of Kent County England and
partly on the East of the lands of Nathan Norton North boundary Long Right of way and partly
on Land of Daniel Saunders boundary on the North side of Fresh Pond running Westward until it
comes to the South West Corner of my Tract
TO HOLD AND GRANT AND release grant and Repayse Premises With the
Appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said Nathan Saunders his Heirs and
Assigns forever to his and their only proper use for their benefit & Aid and also to the
said Joseph Saunders For my my Heirs my Executors and Administrators forever
covenant with the said Nathan Saunders his Heirs and Assigns that he and they shall
until the leasing of these Presents be our sole and only Seisin of the Premises and
are granted to be possibly Sole Inhabitant and have for right to bargain and
sell the same in manner and manner as a free written and that the same
is free of all encumbrances Whatsoever and furthermore that the said Joseph
Saunders Do by this Present for my my Heirs my Executors forever warrant
and Defend the above Grant and Repayse and promise them that the said
Nathan Saunders on his Heirs and Assigns forever Against all Claims and
Demand Whatsoever And for the Consideration above said Do give up all my right of
Court and Power of thirds of and Unders the above Premises and promise not
to buy the Nathan Saunders his Heirs and Assigns forever
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 27th
Day of December in the 26th Year of Dominion Immanuel For thousand hundred and Eighty
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In Presence of
Nathan York
Desire York
Signed Dec 2d 1782
by J. Coffin J.C.
Joseph Saunders
Mary Saunders
Washington Ct. Personally appeared the above named
Undersigned the Day and Date above written and declared
the Above and foregoing Instrument to be their free act and
Deed Made with their hands and seals thereunto Affixed
Before Nathan Taylor Justice Peace
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