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and administrators so command and engage the before named person provide unto him the land
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and Desire Gavis & John Gavis her husband Polly Patterson & Amos Patterson her husband
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wife of Waterford in the County of Washington state of Rhode Island and Sale of the
to Capt Joseph Williams his heirs of Charlestown Recorded Second in consideration of selling and
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the South Eastwardly by the post road bounded by the pasture land in the possession of George George
and bounded on the Northwardly by the wall pond bounded by the Town of Warwick and bounded by the
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one half length of stone wall that divides this land from the pasture Meadows called now
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