9/12/1804 · DEED · book 4 page 421 doc 11609

To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that We Arthur Fenner of Providence in the County of Providence and Enoch Crandale of Charleston in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island S.C. By Virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island dated June 2 1803 in the Petition of John Sisson, Augustines Hardy, Christopher Hardy, Daniel Hardy, & John Gorton made to the Magistrates and General Assembly of Rhode Island in Charleston, Praying for Libery to make sale of Merchant or other Lands for payment of their debts - Whereas the said Hardy's are Debtors for the Settlement of the preceding year having neither Money - nor that his Excellency Arthur Fenner & Enoch Crandale of Charleston have appointed a Committee to sell such a much of their Lands as will raise the Sum of two hundred Dollars and seventy five Dollars and that it be done by the said Committee in their names for the purpose of paying their debts all the right titles and interests they have in the Lands - Dollars - and that in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred Dollars fourteen Dollars and seventy five Dollars just received in hand by us and trusty paid by Benjamin Whipple of Charleston in the County of Washington the said Sum is to us both sufficient Satisfaction HAVE given granted to bargain and sold to the said Benjamin Whipple with his heirs and Assigns forever those certain Lot or Lots of Land situate in Charleston containing by measurement twelve Acres and thirteen Quarter by the Dame more or less and is bounded as follows Beginning at the Southeast Corner of the said Lot opposite the Day’s Lot near the Creek 29 rods South to corner of James White North East forty Degrees East 41 rods to the Creek 29 rods North to the Southeast North North East forty Degrees East 41 rods to the Creek 29 rods North to the Southeast east by the Highway and thence South to the Southeast corner of the land and by Authority and lastly by the South Line of said Land HAVE and hold to the aforesaid Dem and Assigns bargained and granted it forever with all and singular the Privileges to the Same belonging any one or more burdensome Whereas whatever until then the Day’s Assignment in Witness whereof We and our Heirs and Assigns forever as Absolute Deeds of conveyance in several parcels Arthur W. the Arthur Fenner and Enoch Crandale the Day witness of the Presence of and Seal of the General Assembly Convened and the above Demised and Bargained Bargains and Premises bind thus the King the Whitefort his Heirs and Assigns against the Lawfull Claims or Demand of any Person or Persons Whatever whose Interest hereafter between these and by these Presents in Witness whereof We have hereunto set our Hands and Seals (but in Due Capacity) this 30th Day of April 1803 Signed Arthur & B. Whipple In Presence of Ply Coyy f.s. Ply Coyy f.s. Samuel lady John Rabins Recorded Sept 12th 1803 by J. S. Coyy f.s. T.C. Washington, S. & Charleston April 28, 1803, before me the Court Evidence of the above written Deed and declared the same done by his voluntary Act and Seal and’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’