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To all People whom shall See these Presents, shall come Greeting. Know ye this 3rd
of June 1773.
Adame of Charlestown in the county of Kent in the state of Rhode Island I am and
in Consideration of the Sum of Five Pounds lawful Money in Hand paid to me by John Harvey office
the said County and Colony above named, the Receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge my sufficient
and paid and in current specie and perfect currency, do hereby execute, acquit and discharge to
the said John Harvey the same forever. ALL that certain piece of Land situated in the Town of
Lynde in the town of North Kingstown containing by Estimation Three Acres and a half Acre
be the same more or less bounded and described as following. Beginning at the Middle of a Road
with Course East by North east to the said John Harvey until it reaches running North East by east
East by the said Road and then in Course South East Line, towards the Easterly Land bounded
to the said Robert Lawton’s Land North east by Thomas Fairfield said North easterly in the pasture’s side
to a Stone wall and hold all the above mentioned Boundaries and Appurtenances pure and clear as
else and signed the same and given my present Seal in said North Kingstown the 3rd day of June
and Delivery hereof the 3rd day of June Adame on the Seal and lawful Owner of the above Sample
and Appurtenances and have in my present hand and lawful Owner’s behalf of the same
& and last after the Executing and Delivery of the said Adame to hereby bind any
my person forever to warrant and defend the bargain I Describe and Appurtenances until the
said John Harvey its Successor Determinate and Assigns forever, against all lawful
Claims of any person whatsoever. That the said John Adame do hereby Declare that all the
above Land is free and clear from Incumbrances whatever, and that the said John Harvey
his Successor Determinate and Assigns, shall have and may after the Executing and Delivery of
his Law Successor Determinate and Assigns, shall have and may after the Executing and Delivery of
peaceably and quietly to have hold use enjoy forever the above Sample and enjoy the
Appurtenances by virtue hereof. Of which witness of have hereunto set my Hand and Seal
on the 3rd day of June in the thirteenth Year of our August Age N. 1773
Signed sealed and delivered
in Presence of
Simon Cutler
Robert Stanton
John Adame (L.S.)
Seal
Rhode Island County
At the Day and Year above written Everly on the
the above Deed were presented
before John Adame and acknowledge the above Deed
the 19th day of June 1773 to be his voluntary Act and Deed. Testated this 19th day of June
George Compton J.P.
Dybe in Robert Parton Lockes of Love
I Scott Wye to whom this Indenture may be known. I Daniel Eban of Charlestown
in the County of Kent in the state of Rhode Island and Province. Know ye this 3rd
of June 1773.
the said Daniel Pekham for and in Consideration of the Sum of Five pounds lawful Money in Hand
Declare to me in the said North Kingstown and by me paid to me by James Ephraim of Welsmouth in the
County of Newport in Colony above named, the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge my
and myself free thus fully subject, contented and of and of every part and parcel
do execute, acquit and discharge from the said James Ephraim his Heirs Executors and
Assigns for ever by these Presents, Slave given, granted, bargained, paid, sold, ceded, assigned
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conveyed and confirmed and by these Presents fully grant bargain sell alien release
convey and confirm unto him their son James Wickham his heirs and assigns forever One vein containing 10 rods of
Land lying and being in the Town of Charlestown aforesaid partly in the Town of Westerly
conveyancing by Elevation that One Acre & Three quarters of an Acre be the same measure lot’s Plotted and the
containing by beginning at First Post of Stone by a Stone Wall running a North & North East Corner of
Old Lot mark Land from hence North West Eighty four degrees North East Six rods and then to the first pin in
the Corner of One Wall from hence North East Six rods & Six inches to a Stake One fence running
the North West Corner of Daniel Wickham’s land from hence running South East Sixty four degrees
Course nw 46 links to the Highway along the Stone Wall joining the road till the last link & re-tracing
hence running South West Eighty four degrees North east it return to Edward Narratic’s Land bounding the lot
& Delaware Land lying and partly on fence George Giffard’s Lot to the first mentioned
To have and to hold the same granted and bargained Demised with all the Rights Privileges &
Appurtenances belonging to the same belonging in any manner of Appurtenances unto him the s^d James Wickham &
Oppose heirs to the same in due proper the Draft Sub’d hereof prove And the s^d Daniel
Wickham for my part my Name, witness and attest the same several times and grant and convey the lot
James Wickham his Heirs and forever and at this and before the Secretary’s office from the same sole and
except Cause of the above has banished’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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