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Joseph Congdon his Heirs and Assignees, that at or before the Enacting hereof I am the True
Sole and lawful Owner of the above bargained Premises as Promisor, and am lawfully seised and possessed
of the same, in my own proper Right, as a good, perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance
in fee simple, that I have in my own good Right full Power and lawful Authority to bargain
give, sell, convey and confirm, the said bargained Premises, in Manner as aforesaid and that
that the said Joseph Congdon his Heirs and Assignees, shall and may from Time to Time
and at all Times forever have, seize and enjoy, for himself and for his Heirs and Assignees, lawfully possessed
and quietly however, hold by himself, by every fee simple, and void the said demise and bargained
Premises with all the Appurtenances thereunto belonging, and clearly and justly quietly warranted
and defended against all and all Manner of Persons or others what Soever, Justly’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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To have and to hold the above Demised Premises with all the Priviledges and
Appurtenances thereon or thereto belonging or appertaining to him and their only Wife Benefitt
and behoof forever. And I the sd Jeremiah Wording for my Heirs Executors & Administrators
do covenant and grant with the sd Thomas Adams the Heirs Wise and effects etc 18.1 before
the Executing hereof I am the true and lawful owner of the above Demised Premise and
am lawfully seized of the same in manner wne might be as Good Estate of Inheritance in
the Simple and have in my self Good Right Full power Lawfull Authority to Convey
the same in Manner and form as is above Expressed and the sd Thomas Adams the
Heirs and Assigns shall and may forevermore HAVE and hold his wife assigns possess and enjoy
the same fully and freely Quietly Acquitted and Discharged of any and all sums and future
Gifts Grants Sales Mortgages and Estates Executions Seizures Distraints or any what so ever
Tenures and burdensome I the sd Jeremiah Wording do for my self my Heirs Executors &
Administrators do covenant and engage the above Demised Premise unto the sd
Thomas Adams the Heirs and Assigns forever against the lawful Claims or Demands of
any Person or Persons whatsoever do warrant and Defend the same and did Mortgage
Wording only to the sd Jeremiah Wording do for and in Consideration of the same as
is above Expressed hereby give quit and surrender up all my Right of Owner and Title
of Words in or unto the above Demised Premise unto the sd Thomas Adams the
Heirs and Assigns forever by these Presents In Witness whereof have hereunto set our
Hands and Seals the Duplicate Day of August and in the Ninth Year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain &c Ad 1779
Signed sealed and deliverd
in the presence of
Walt Rogers
Christopher Wording
Kings County SS
Jeremiah Wording Seal
Abigail Wording Seal
Recorded the Personally appeared this second day of October Ad 1779 the above
31 day of setty 1779 Jeremiah Wording and Acknowledged the above and within
by’d Confounded & William Lord to be his Notary public and Did witness his Hand and
Seal hereunto affixed Signed Joshua Clarke Justice of the peace
To all People to whom these Presents shall come Either Petitioners to
Joseph Clarke date of Charlestown Deceased and any Champlin Single Woman both of
Charlestown in Kings County and Colony of Westland State and both Daughters of
Joseph Champlin Yeoman also Weaver Late of Charlestown Deceased being Colliers
to Joseph Champlin) and Granting Whereas it is that they the sd Either Potter &
Amy Champlin for and in Consideration of the sum of Sixty Pounds Currency
of the Colony aforesaid to them in Hand before the Executing hereof well and truly paid
by Joseph Clarke of the Town County and Colony aforesaid Namely the Receipt whereof they
do hereby acknowledge thankedly and Thoroughly fully satisfied contented and paid
and thereof and of every part and Parcel thereof is separate acquit and discharge them
the sd Joseph Clarke his Heirs Executors and Administrators forever by these Presents
have given granted bargained sold assigned conveyed and confirmed and
the sd Present do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien assign
convey
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