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Eight Hundred & Seventeen. Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
John Johnson
Samuel Stanton
John Allen
Abigail Allen
mary
Recorded June
18th 1817
S. Stanton C.C.
Washington Co.
Charleston Court 17th 1817. Personally appeared John Allen
and Abigail Allen wife to the sd John Allen and acknow-
ledged the Above & foregoing to be their free and Voluntary
Act and Deed Signed & Sealed & Sole
Before Samuel Stanton D: Clerk
Know all men by these presents That I Jonathan Allen of Exeter
Town County of Washington State of Rhode Island a Citizen For and
in Consideration of one Hundred Dollars to me in hand well and Truly paid
by David Wilson Esquire of the Town and County aforesaid Have Released Remised
& forever Quitclaimed unto the sd David Wilson his Heirs Assigns
Administrators or Executors one Certain Tract or Parcel of land lying and
being in the Town & County aforesaid Containing by Estimation seventy acres and
Bounded as follows (viz) Beginning at the Northeast Corner of this Tract
& the Southeast Corner of the land known by the name of the will land
on the Highway leading from the Bridge called Pignut Bridge through
Sherman on one hand and now runs from Corner to Corner bounding on northerly
partly by 3 will land partly by Oliver Hazard land & partly by Daniel
Brown Esquire's land until it Comes to Oliver Conrads land from there
Southerly bounding westerly by Oliver Conrads land for south as a
Parallel line with the North line will make the Exact Number of seventy
Acres and bounded Southeasterly by a Corner of the Governor's land to the
aforesaid Highway & Easterly to Highway to the first mentioned bound & Corner
To Wit and Also the above premises Together with all the Privileges
and Appurtenances Hereto belonging unto the sd David Wilson his heirs &
Assigns forever and I Elizabeth Allen wife of the sd Jonathan Allen do Also let
the Right Desire & Gross of whatever I had or Ever could have had in the about
mentioned premises or in testifying Whereunto we have Set our hands & Seals this
seventeenth day of June in the year of our lord one thousand Eight hundred & seventeen in the
presence of
John Johnson
Samuel Stanton
Jonathan Allen
Elizabeth Allen
Washington Co.
Charleston Court 17th 1817. Personally appeared Jonathan Allen
and Elizabeth Allen wife to the sd J. Allen and acknowledged
the above and foregoing instrument to be their free and
Voluntary Act and Deed Signed & Sealed & Sole
Before me Samuel Stanton D: Clerk