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of are Premises. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15 Day
of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand and eight hundred and seventeen 1817
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In my presence
John Kealie
Saml Clark
Joseph Clark [seal]
Washington Co. sc.
State of Rhode Island ss.
Before me the Justice of the Peace
appeared the within named J. S. Clark the Clerk signed and sealed the within instrument and
acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary act and deed hundred and one
and eight hundred and seventeen 1817
Witness my hand and official seal this 15 Day of January A.D. 1817
Before me John Anderson Justice Peace
Know all Men by these Presents that we John S. Stanton and Hannah
Stanton his wife agree both of them being in the county of Kent in the state of Rhode Island citizens of the town of
good heirs and conveyances there and then and me appearing for the sum of Two thousand four hundred
dollars to us paid in full of the sums of William Green of the town of Coventry in the county of Kent
4 plots of State Island have caused signed released and forever quit claimed and by these presents
do sell and convey have and by these presents absolutely renounce excess forever our claims and rights to the
William Green the above named person and his heirs forever with each other all the plots of State Island situated in the
hubdship of our said city and town in the district of the state of Rhode Island being lying on and
Chatterton's Point in the state of Rhode Island containing about two hundred acres being the same land and being
bounded by the State of Rhode Island bounded by the state of Rhode Island on the north and on the south
bound by the town of Coventry in the state of Rhode Island and on the east and west on the state of Rhode Island
bounded by the state of Rhode Island Consider the following reservation being made that the rights of burying
ground are by the region road of land state in the north bound from the burying place on the
east side of the said road and the place above described North ground is reserved
Furthermore and to hold the above described land to the said William Green and his heirs and
assigns his heirs and to be held by the said William Green and his heirs forever full and clear in the plots of
State Island in the county of Kent not to be used nor any other thing to be remaining in any other part of our estates
or other lands since we once forever our claims of land and rights of the state of Rhode Island for four hundred
and ten ways and every way that by these presents be settled of payment by J. W. Wilson attorney
be hereunto set our hands and seals this 23 Day of January Anno Domini 1817
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In Presence of
Gilbert Bouchard
Jpher Mason Jr.
John S. Stanton [seal]
Hannah Stanton [seal]
State of Rhode Island
Washington Co. ss.
Before me Jesse Mason attorney of the Clerk
personally appeared John S. Stanton & Hannah Stanton his wife being duly sworn state that
the foregoing instrument is their act and acknowledged the same their free act and deed
Sworn and subscribed 23 Jany 1817
per P. B. Wright F. Clerk
Before me Jesse Mason attorney of F. Clerk