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Know all Men by these presents That I Joshua Tucker and
Elizabeth Tucker his wife of S[t]tingham in the County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, in consideration of the sum
of One Dollar to be paid by Ply Card his son of Charlestown in the County of Washington
and State Rhode Island and Providence Plantations named The Parcel
whereof I do hereby Acknowledge to be Owner Named Poland and squares
But otherwise called in Rhode Island Rhode Province Plantation Atlas and further Untill
Bound with the S[t] Ply Card his house and office and further true
tenure Bound with Parcel of Land lying in Charlestown in Washington
County belonging to some Area in the same month as it runs on the east
as follows First Bound on the North with Land of Job [illegible] three
hundreds of feet at the North and further to Land of L[e]banning
South forty five Degrees East 30 rods and thence three South 8 East One
hundred Rode to P[a]ssegasset Brook three hundred leading before the North
house to some 10 rods land Und. The Other side Bound on the North
by Land of Augusten Lawon on the West and South on Land of Henry Berry
on the East the Passegasset Pond
To have and to hold the same together with all the
Privileges and appurtenances Tenements belonging to him the Said
Ply Card Card his successors and assigns forever.
In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our
Hand and Seals this 14th Day of March A.D. 1815.
Signed Sealed & Delivered
in my presence of
Joshua Cost
Jeffrey Champlin
Joshua Tucker - Seal
Elizabeth for Tucker Seal
Westington fo. Court at Charlestown March
14th 1815. Personally Appeared the within named
Joshua Tucker and Elizabeth Tucker his wife and signed
And Sealed to the within Instrument And acknowledged
the Same to be their free Voluntary Act and Deed
and Seal and Solemn Affirmed Before
Joshua Card Justice Peace
Recorded August 31, 1815.
By P. Cost /s T. C.