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KNOW All men by these Presents that I, Nathaniel S. Croft of Study
in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island for and in Consideration
of the sum of one Thousand Dollars to me in hand paid before the Execu-
tion and Delivery hereof by Philip Croft of Stephens and in the County of Bristol
State of Rhode Island, and John S. Croft of Charlestown in the County of
Washington State of Rhode Island, that the Right title and Interest of Sale hereby absolute
belonging to me the seventh fully satisfied etc continued and find do hereby,
Renounce Release and forever Quitclaim unto the said Philip Croft
and John S. Croft their heirs and assigns forever All the Right Title absolute
which I have now or might hereafter have in and unto certain Estate
lying and being in Charlestown containing Four thousand acres
the Same more or less and to contain all my Right in all the Buildings
which may be thereunto belonging etc Philip Croft of Study Charlestown Demure
possessed of Affluence being suitably to the Books of Evidence entered
Dated March 1st 1832 in Charlestown for a particular description of the said
area of the woods rate fields, and forests of said West Plot etc
Do No 499 and to No 110 all the said Plateau and Quitclaimed Premises
together with all the said buildings fixtures and Appurtenances unto the said Philip Croft
and John S. Croft their heirs and assigns forever, to this deed and Agreement
their Heirs and assigns forever, to this deed and Agreement
And I the said Nathaniel S. Croft for me my Heirs executors and administrators
do hereby Covenant with the said Philip Croft and John S. Croft
that I have made in due form a simple deed of Conveyance for all of the aforesaid
Plots of Land or Lot’s to the same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Charlestown this 29 day of December
1839.
Nath'l S. Croft (ss)
Executed in presence of
Elizabeth B. Kendal (seal) State of Rhode Island ss
Samuel Stanton
Washington
Recorded Jan 10 1840 by
Samuel Stanton J. Cl.
C.C.I Charlestown on this sixteen day
above written Certificate apparently approved the above Instrument
Nathaniel S. Croft and acknowledged the above instrument
by him executed to be his free voluntary act and deed for the
purposes therein or expressed
Samuel Stanton Jur. of First
KNOW All Men by these Presents that I Joshua Clarke Administrator
on the Estate of Jesse Comstock late of Charlestown in the County of Washington
len in the State of Rhode Island Deceased By virtue of the Authority vested in me
by the Superior Judicial Court of the said State at their belated term for and acting
of Washington 1838, and furthermore to the nomination of the Court of Probate of
said State of Charlestown, and for and in Consideration of the sum of One
Hundred and fifty Dollars to me paid by Sale and Purchase from the State
town upon the highest Bidder at a publick Auction of the State house by
conveyance held on the 13 day of December 1839 the Right title and Interest of the
hereby acknowledge, Do hereby Convey, in my name and capacity George George
Sellard convey unto the said Sold and bought Roy Taylor their Heirs and assigns
all the Right title and Interest which the said Jesse Comstock had in and to a certain
parcel of Land at the time of his Death lying in Charlestown aforesaid unto
which the first part with part of a dwelling house and other Buildings There
Containing