5/30/1774 · DEED · book 3 page 175 doc 12849

To all People to whom these presents shall come Greetings Benjamin Hovey and May his Wife, of Charlestown, in the County of Kings County, in the Colony of Rhode Island send Greetings Know ye that we the said Benjamin Hovey and May my Wife for and in Consideration of Variety Acres and one Plott of Land with all fully acquired by Nathaniel Stapleton and his Heirs of the rown County and Colony for void said Day the Receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and ample convenanted the said and constituted All received, released and proven quitclaimed and confirmed unto the said Nathaniel Stapfield, in his actual Possession, in your owning and bearing, to his Heirs and Assigns forever all our Right Title, Estate Property, Claim Challenge or Demand Now have, had or ought to have, in and unite One certain Part or Dwelt of Land Plott Lying and being in Charlestown upon said, containing Winter Acres and One Half of Land’s and bounded as follows North by Thomas Wilson Land, Easterly on Samuel Sanders Land, South by the Grantors Land, Westerly on Jedidiah Davis Land, the boundary is parceled with the Northly Line To have and to hold, the land released, and released Premises with all the Privileges, and Appurtenances to the same belonging, either in any way appertaining unto him the said Nathaniel Stapfield for his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his and their proper Benefit and Behoof forever. In that neither we the said Benjamin, or May our Heirs executors or Administrators any other Person or we them there for or in whom they shall or have Claim, Challenge or Demand any Estate, Title, Right Title or Interest in or with the land hereby released forever, or any or Dual hereof, but shall and will forever consecrate by force and virtue of the Present Indenture and delivered by the Steps Evidence Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals this Eighteenth Day of March in the Twenty-fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, Georg the Third King of Great Britain etc. Anno Domine 1774 Signed sealed and delivered In presence of me Which is Benj. Hovey junr Caleb Grandal Kings County in the above mentioned Benjamin Hovey personally acknowledged to the below written Instrument to be his voluntary Act and Deed, Hand and Seal thus effecting the 18th Day of March ad 1774 Before me Step.n [illegible] Justice of the Peace Kings County Jc. At Charlestown the 28th Day of April appeared the within Subscriber, to wit Mary Hovey and did acknowledge the within Instrument to be her Act and Deed Hand and Seal thus effect before me Willy Collis Justice Peace The above Deed was recorded the 30th Day May 1774 James Congdon the Town Clerk Know all Men by these Presents, that I Silas Coffin of Smithstown, in the County of Kings County Rhode Island Witness to the Present with All Statement of the within named John Coffin, for and in Consideration of the Sum of One Hundred and Ninety seven Pounds Money, to me in Hand paid, by Charles Church of Charlestown, in the County aforesaid said Right Smith Do by these presents quit sign set over full and deliver to the said Charles, as well this present as also, all the Money thereby found to be paid to the said John Coffin, and his Heirs Executors, and Benj. Hovey, L.S. Mary Hovey, L.S.