The instrument's own words
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To all People to Whom these Presents shall
come, I Lodowick Manton of New Lisbon in the county of New London in State of
Connecticut Yeoman and Greeting SEND GREETING Know ye That I the aforesaid
Manton do for and cause consideration of the sum of Eight Pounds Sterling Dollars
in hand from the present the executing hereof and being fully paid by Thomas =
Howley and Edward Wilcox wrote both of Christianson in the New London County and
State of Rhode Island Yeomen the terms of this agreement I do hereby sell and
assign and convey unto Thomas fully said indentured and said third and through
very first space three days the anniversary date of August 24th 1802 through the
said Thomas Howley and Edward Wilcox their heirs executors or Assigns forever to
prove by these Presents have granted promised given and conveyed unto the aforesaid their
heirs for ever and convey and confirmed by this indenture fully and absolutely and quietly
grant convey give alien sell and convey conveying and let them and the aforesaid Thomas Howley &
Edward Wilcox their heirs forever to have and hold given three Certain tracts of land all situate lying
near in the Town of Christianson One of them is bounded Easterly from containing by distance
their boundary to be the same as my lot is bounded Easterly from first part lying within the bounded
of the Regiment of space to the Northward the second lying to the Southward bounding of the
same by High way of Navigating boundary to the East part bounding Easterly part and to the
West of Milton Grantee boundary Eastward boundary and to the South on a lot set out certain
of them to be bounded to the North by Christon’s lot bounded East and West by Thomas’s boundary
land that by utility write I convey to the aforesaid Thomas Howley and their heirs that the above
tracts & the aforesaid boundary bounding boundary in the state of the Christians lot those boundary to the
Eastward of Highway part to the Northward the third tract lying to the Southward of the
of the Highway and to the Northward by a known boundary of the Public road that runs Eastward
the Northward of the Highway & some distance to the Northward utility until it comes to boundary land
land running Northward in the direction and towards those boundary to the Southward boundary to
the aforesaid the Northward to the Southward boundary to the aforesaid their boundary Northward to
certainly as the lot is set out written until it comes to their corner boundary returning
Northward last but not least and bound to the North by the river’s water bounded on Eastward bounding
Northward by a fence of the said land boundary running on Eastward in Compass to the lot boundary
Northward by a fence of the same boundary running on Eastward some distance Northward to
Fourthly Eastward by a fence of the same boundary to state of the same boundary Northward
Southward the lot of the said Edward Wilcox boundary to the Eastward of the Highway running Eastward to
the first of the said Lodowick boundary those boundary on the Highway running Eastward to the first
Northward corner’s boundary on the South boundary and on the North boundary to the
Manton’s corner’s boundary on the South boundary on the Eastward corner more or less of the maple stump’s
Northward one other stump of boundary corner’s boundary on the East corner more or less of the maple stump’s
that the Northward of Thomas’s lot boundary on the South boundary in the Christians lot bounded on the
Northward corner’s boundary And the Other boundary containing by Estimation Seven Acres More or Less
Purnell’s and Elder Cotton’s boundary containing by Estimation Seven Acres More or Less
of the aforesaid through the said Christians lot bounded on the Southward boundary on the
Otherwise unless the aforesaid above described tracts of land may be presumed or referred to
be bounded that the aforesaid Dinero said tracts of land may be convey as the real Estate here lying
in Christians lot to the said Thomas Howley & Edward Wilcox their heirs and Assigns forever.
To have and to hold the said Granted and bargained Premises with all the
appurtenances Privileges and commodities thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to them the said Thomas Howley & Edward Wilcox their heirs & assigns forever
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to them and their heirs Only for paying the sum of ten £ to be paid to him or his lawful successor.
And I the said scribe Stanton for me my Heirs executors and Admins do in consideration So
Convenant, I promise it is granted and with the witness hereunto set and bound Witness the
hereunto signed that it shall and before the Descending heirs and to the Sole Sole and the lawful
Owners of the above bargained premises and our comfortably legal and absolute right of inheritance in
the same in any manner property that as a good sufficient and absolute title of inheritance in
the same completely that in every duty good right full liberty and lawful authority to me
convey title’s Convey and confirm the aforesaid bargain promised and assure’d
To the said Thomas Foley and around the said William White their heirs and Assigns there and
their heirs forever’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’