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Administrator, do covenant, prom[ise], and grant to and with the said Samuel Stanton his
Heirs
and assigns, that before the Enacting hereof & the time and lawful Owner of the above
Premises and am lawfully seised, possessed of the same in mine own proper Right, had
and perfected a lawful Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple having in my own proper Right had
Own and lawful Authority to sell and dispose of the same even Manner and form as aforesaid
and that the same, & every part thereof is absolutely free and clear, from all manner of
tenures, Gifts, grants, Feoffs, Mortgages, or any other Encumbrances whatsoever.
Furthermore I the said John Stanton for my Heirs, Devisees, Administrators, do covenant
and engage, that the above described Premises shall be free unto the said Samuel Stanton, Heirs and assigns
forever, against the lawful Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons whoever
belonging, to warrant and forever defend, and defend, by which Dorothy Stanton wife of the said John
Stanton for the Consideration above stated paid fully’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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92 and from thence northerly on said Highway to the
mentioned Bounds. To have and to hold the said granted Bounds & Tenements
with all the Appurtenances annexes, and Privileges Comodities to the same belonging in
any way appertaining to him the said Josiah Corden his Heirs Condescendants his Heirs Spouses &
forever, to his and this only proper Use, Benefit Relief success forever and the said Josiah
Corden to me the said [illegible] Administrator do promise reconvey renew and warrant to
and with the said Josiah Corden above named vis, his Heirs Spouses that the Execution
hereof, from the true, sole, and Lawful Owner of the above said granted Tenements, and
hereby, from me lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right, as a good and per-
fect absolute Owner, In Perpetuity, and have in myself, good right it will follow here
to grant bargain convey sell convey and renew the said bargained Tenements in manner
as above said, and that the said Josiah Corden his Heirs Condescendants his Heirs Spouses full and lawful
from Time to Time and at all Times possess hereafter for free and virtue of the step
Severally, lawfully peaceably stably, and quietly have, hold use enjoy possess and enjoy the said
demised Tenements, as well as the Appurtenances free and clear, and perfectly openly acquired
warranted, and delivered from all and all Owners of some or other, Gift, Grant
Devising Sale, Lease, Step, Gift, etc. etc. Granting Devises’ Documents’ Remainder
or something else, of what Nature or how Tenure, forever, Comprised in a manner
or some how, of what Nature or how Tenure, forever, Covenant, and Engage the above
Corden, for any Person, Descendant, and Administrator, to Covenant, and Engage the above
document given to the said Josiah Corden his Heirs Condescendants his Heirs Spouses, against the lawful
Claim or Demand of any and all Persons or others whoever hereafter forever, for some
and defend by Legal Evidence & Process & above hereby’s to my hand & Seal this
first day of February A° 1772 and in the Twenty-fourth Year of his Majesties Reign
George the Third.
Signed sealed & delivered
in presence of
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Josiah Corden
Josiah Corden
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The above Deed was
remanded the 1st day of
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February the First Day D° 1772
Personally appeared the within underscriben [illegible]
and acknowledged the wit Extallment to be his Act & Deed
and Seal the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
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To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Samuel Stanton of
Charlestown in the County of Essex Colony of New England Island [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
Know ye, that I the said Samuel Stanton for and in Consideration of one Hundred
and Fifty Two Dollars, and [illegible] of the other Dollars lawful Money of me well and truly
in the Delivery hereof well and truly paid by Jonathan Davis of the Town of Eighteen in the
County of Essex above said, from me the present whereby I hereby acknowledge and convey
forever with fully [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] part and parcel and more
appurtenant, assigned, and preserve discharge him the said Jonathan Davis his Heirs Condescendants his
Heirs forever, have given, granted, bargained for sale, cleared, and allowed in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
unto him from the said Jonathan Davis, his Heirs & Spouses forever, One certain Tract of [illegible] of
Land situate lying and being in the Town of Charlestown, containing by [illegible] [illegible]
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