The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come,
I William Gosbee of Christiana in the township County Providence State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations & Servant [illegible] Bond Giving KNOW Ye That the said
William Gosbee for himself & his heirs executors the said County of Providence and County Deccan
more in hand by these presents have the Conveying Indenture of Will and solely bound by the Namee Vaughan of
Newport in the county the say state aforesaid from the [illegible] of the Third of January 1824
and my Servant [illegible]’s estate contained in and near, and of every part of every inch thereof
these of the Indenture aforesaid & the Demisees therein as he has been
Executors and Administrators forever by these Presents Have given grant to
Marguerite [illegible] the said Indenture being and conveyed unto him & the said Samuel Vaughan
his heirs & assigns forever One certain Waste old field Land situated in the town of Christiana
with a vacant Dwelling house there standing containing by Estimation about
Forty Acres be the same more or less in and bounded as follows saying
Northwesterly and Easterly on a River stream Southwesterly by the field of Stephen [illegible] and Westly on
Southwesterly against the said Samuel Vaughan the [illegible] Land northwesterly and
partly Northwesterly and partly Northeasterly on the field of Samuel Vaughan’s Land or
more exactly in the same way as in the said Indenture to the Recitals
So have I also intended to the said grant and promised Precisely all the
Appearances privileges & Conveniences to the Same Belonging or in any way app
Appertaining unto him & the Convene Vaughan with his heirs & assigns forever &
by this my party absolute forever his Heirs and his heirs and his heirs and
The said William Gosbee for myself my heirs executors & Administrators do Covenant and promise
hand to the said Samuel Vaughan with his heirs & assigns that in and support the Conveying
hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner of the Above mentioned Demise and
am lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right most august and absolute
Absolute estate Sufficiently and in my own right I have in my sole good right of full
power Marguerite [illegible]’s authority beyond my [illegible] all Convey and confirm the said
Marguerite [illegible] as witnessed above & I do further to the said Samuel Vaughan
his Heirs and Assigns warrant to him & all time from all claims whatever,
by four copies of this present instrument fully manually & Precisely have the
entirety Possess & enjoy the said Demise & promised Premises with all the
Appurtenances with it & others and fully and clearly unencumbered and
Discharged of all form all and manners of claims either Gifts grants bargains
Sales leases mortgages Wills better rights of Conveyance to tenants and
Remembrance of what Names or Nation however they might be Claims or
Demands Restrict to make void this present Deed And furthermore I the said
William Gosbee for myself my heirs Executors & Administrators do Covenant
and engage the Above Demised Premises to be the said Samuel Vaughan
his Heirs and Assigns Against the lawful Claims or Demands of any Person
of Persons whatsoever proved & Warrant Secure & Defend by these Presents.
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I promise to pay the sums and these Presents are upon Conditions that if
Void William Goitman his Heirs executors Demisees creditors or Assigns or
of them Shall Do well and truly pay by Law to be paid unto the said Samuel
Vaughan his Heirs executors Administrators or Assigns the within mentioned
Sum of two hundred and twenty Dollars On Demand and to the intent
without any payment of further Interest which will be as full Discharge of
an Obligation by the William Goitman Only deemed void the said Samuel
Vaughan continued for the payment the above mentioned Sum of
two hundred and twenty Dollars bearing were Said herewith
then this Present Deed as well as the said Obligation shall be forever
Void and null utter and void whereas Whereas whatever Estate there be and
remainin in full Possession and Seisin of William Goitman in the town of
Gotman have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 30th Day of June 1808
[illegible]
by me name of
Daniel Vaughan
Daniel Edwards
Recorded in the Town Clerk's Book May 24, 1808
I read this Mortgage D. S. at two o'Clock P. M. this Date in Order & be
proved
July 11, 1808
July 11, 1808 Presently appeared the within
Wm Goitman
July 11, 1808
Daniel William Goitman & acknowledged the above instrument to
be his Voluntary Act and deed to Seal
Before Daniel Edwards Justice Peace
Articles of agreement made and entered into by and between
Mary Lewes alias Mary wife of William Lewes and Thomas and them as
Lewes his Wife for Whereas that the said Mary and the said Thomas have mating
agreed that the said Mary have for her Body in Law of his Life the following
said lands of his but first provide a lot with a white line from the small
line runs to the East 22 rods now be the Street and then North 22 rods
June starts a dog by the meadow and take in the small pasture in the
Orchard and a small yard and west of the house and East to the northwest
Corner of the house and East down from the North east Corner of the house a
Neighbour line to the South east of the Doorway that leads from the house
the Pasture then Eastward then as the pole and further East to some
stone heap near a close of a straight Line Southward further East to some
stone pile on the boundary line between the said land and the Southward
of the first mentioned the aforesaid the aforesaid the aforesaid Thomas Lewes
have Utterly relinquishing his rights for the ground as the good and true warrant
but provided some right of way over the field of the said Mary to have the liberty
to be lead the house to make and maintain a fence taking such wood as
Land provided in the above mentioned bounds the said Thomas is to have the improvement
of his for lands and remnants however the above to be the improvement
Liberty to fish water from the stone heap to the wharf whereas we have hereunto set
our hands this 20 Day of April 1807
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Mary Lewes
Thomas Lewes