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To all People whom these Presents shall come we W.m Tilling-
hast of Charlestown in the County of Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island &
Providence Plantations in New England & Connor, & Martha his Wife, & Robert Wardell
of Pawtucket, and Hannah his Wife, and Elizabeth Clark of Middleborough Massachusetts
& Elizabeth her Wife, and Anne June peers of Charlestown and Dorcas her Wife, all in the County and
colony aforesaid which Martha, Hannah, Elizabeth and Dorcas, be the Daughters of John
Hill late of Charlestown Rhode Island deceased whose sealing [illegible] that we the s
d Wm Tillinghast & Martha his Wife, Robert Wardell and Hannah his Wife, Elizabeth Clark
& Elizabeth her Wife, and Anne June peers & Dorcas her Wife, for and in Consideration of the
sum of One hundred and fifty pounds Sterling paid to me in Hand and before
the Colony & government here by Governor John Crandall of Charlestown aforesaid & John
the said Clerk of the said Court decreed the County Court sitting day be hereby acknowledged
and deemed that we have fully satisfied, contented, satisfied, and paid, and as thereby, and thereby every
and several thereof’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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Any Court thereof We do alltogether execute and forever Deliverd by these Presents
In Witness whereof We the J. Tobias Saunders, and Martha his Wife Robert
Durdick and Hannah his wife, Ichabod Clarke and Elizabeth his wife, and Amos Freeman and
Dorcas his wife have here unto set their Hands and Seals the Twenty sixth Day of March, in the
Eleventh Year of his present Majestys Reign Close. 1771
Signed sealed & Delivered
in presence of
Robert Manton
William Green.
Tobias Saunders [seal]
Martha Saunders [seal]
Robert Durdick [seal]
Hannah Durdick [seal]
Ichabod Clarke [seal]
Elizabeth Clarke [seal]
Amos Freeman [seal]
Dorcas Freeman [seal]
Kings County March 2nd 1771
The Day and Year before written Personally
appeared the above named persons Tobias Saunders, Martha Saunders, Robert Durdick, Hannah
Durdick, Ichabod Clarke, Elizabeth Clarke, Amos Freeman, & Dorcas Freeman and
acknowledged the foregoing Deed to be their voluntary Act with their Hand and seal
there unto affixed
Before Robert Manton Justice of the Peace
The above and foregoing Deed was recorded the Eighth Day of July 1771
By James Congdon Clerk Off.
To all People whom these presents shall come Greetings
I that is to say Joseph Stanton of Chariestown in Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island America
for me and my consideration of the Premises in the foreground my Wife and my Eightye Eight years and other
Debts, to me in Hand by the Evening before this day by my son Henry Saunders &
Joseph Saunders in the city of New York America [illegible] and by the said parties fully paid and absolutely
given quit bargain forsall alien espouse convey grant and release unto the above named Henry Saunders
his Heirs Descendants Administrators and Assigns forever One certain Piece or Tract of Land situate
lying and being in the Town of Chariestown above said city containing by Estimation Fifty Acres more
or less bounded as follows viz Beginning at the Beginning of the Northwest corner of the
County Road, it being the Land that is here Lawfully to James Congdon from hence running
along the County Road it comes to the south East side, then running from the South East corner of said
as the Corner Road come now Southward to the South East corner of Robert and from there
running East until it comes to the Line of the Land that I gave to Mother and Henry Saunders
then running Southward to the Line now belonging to me and then West over Mother & Henry
to the North East. And to have and to hold the said parcel and forever granted with all the
Appurtenances Privileges and the medows to the same belonging in or any other appertaining
unto the said Henry Saunders his Heirs Descendants and Assigns forever to him and his forever
Wife Descendants and heirs of forever and the said Joseph Stanton for me my Heirs Successors
and Administrators do promise and grant to and with the said Henry Saunders his Heirs
and Assigns that before the Executing hereof I am the True Sole and Lawful Owner of the
above described Land & premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same
[illegible]