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George the Third, King of Great Britain &c. Anno Domini 1773
Signed sealed & delivered
in the presence of
Christopher Wording
Benjamin Wording
The above grant Deed was
recorded the 11th Day of July 1774
By Me the Regd. Clerk for the Town of [illeg لمعان] on one hand.
Kings County
Richmond Decr 22nd A 1773
Then personally appeared the Subscriber, Samuel Wording, and
acknowledged the above and for giving Deed to be his voluntary Act
with his Hand and Seal thereunto affixed. Before me Robert Stanton Justice of the Peace
To all people to whom these presents shall come Elraim Hall of Constitution, in the County
of Kings County and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence, send Greeting Know ye That I the said Elraim Hall
for, in the Consideration of the sum of ten Boy Dollars in Hand, before the Execution hereof well and sufficienty paid to me by Samuel
& Constitution, in Kings County and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence, acknowledge that I do absolutely make,
convey, transfer sell & deliver and reduced and passed and pass & transfer and convey all my part and Parcel thereof to convey again,
and discharge’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d
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Whatever, forever warrant secure and defend, by these presents. And Penelope Hall ye Wife,
of me the said Ephraim Hall with by this present deed, justly, and willingly, to give, yield, and
Surrender all her Right of Dower, and Power of Widow of and unto the above named Ye Sampsey
unto the said Thomas Hall his Heir and Assigns forever. In Witness of the said Ephraim
Hall and Sealor, have set our Hands and Seals, this Tenth Day of January, and in the
Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred Seventy four.
Ephraim Hall L.S.
W^m Baptist Kings County
February the 7th 1774. Penelope Hall L.S.
May Court
The aforegoing Deed was then presently assigned the Subscriber Ephraim Hall and acknowledged
recorded the 17th day 1774— by the above Deed by him signed and sealed, to be his will & Deed, Signed
by me J^o Cong. for the Court and Staff. before me Nathan Benduck Justice Peace
To all People to whom these presents shall come, know Ye that Job Taylor in Charlestown in
the County of Kings County and Province of Rhode Island, and Subject, send greeting. Know ye that
I the said Job Taylor for and in Consideration of the sum of Fifty Pounds lawful Money to me in Hand well
and truly paid by Thomas Hall of the said County and Country and above named Thomas Hall the newest of
a’s duly acknowledged and rightful seventeenth the 7th day of February, contained and paid Have given granted
bargained sold, altered, transferred, conveyed and confirmed, and do by these presents fully and absolutely
give grant bargain sold full, alien sell, convey and confirm unto the alone named Thomas Hall L.S. his
Heirs, Executors, Adminstrators, and assigns a certain East or Parcel of Land, situate lying and being, in the Town
of Charlestown aforesaid containing by Estimation County four Acres, and a Quarter, both fore more
or less, bounded as followeth, namely Beginning at a marked Oak Tree marked on Iron’s land, further north
bounded by land of John Gorton, to a large White Oak marked with a Hatchet in the Water and
tree Easterly bounded partly on W^m Gorton’s Land, and partly on William a Miller, abutting upon
said Robert Hall’s Land until it comes to a Stake with some about it, Westerly bounded upon
Ephraim Hall’s Land to a straight Line to the first mentioned Bound.
To have and to hold the said grant and bargain Demise, with all the Annexes, Heritages
Rights, Appurtenances and appurtenances unto the fore belonging, in any order appertaining unto
the said Thomas Hall, his Heirs and assigns to him and his other only proper Heirs and lawful heirs
And I the said Job Taylor in my name, behalf, Executor Administrator, do remise and grant to and
with the said Thomas Hall his Heirs and assigns that before the Evening coming on the day with
lawful Owner of the above bargained Demise, and as lawfully Seized and possessed of the same in the
our own proper Right Title and Power and lawful Authority to sell and dispose of the same in the manner
as above said purposed, at the bargain Demise, and convey Any Right Interest in appurtenance free and clear
of and from all manner of former, or other Acts, Grants, Bargains Sales Job Taylor L.S. unto the
Jointure Dowries Judgments, Recognizances, Incumbrances and Claims. Ruthomale the Seal
Job Taylor, for myself, Heirs, Executors, Administrators do covenant and engage the above named
Demise unto the said Thomas Hall his Heirs, Country and assigns, against the lawful Claims and
Demands of Dower or Power or whatever, forever, hence forth warrant secure and defend by these presents.
And also Sarah Taylor, the Wife of the said Job Taylor, doth hereby agree, convey and make over
all