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156 To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Adam Stanton of Coventry the County of Windham Colony of Connecticut Yeoman Do grant Convey and release Whereas the said is called Son and Heir at Law of John Stanton late residing in Charlestown in the County of Kent County news now 2nd Coventry and whereas in and by the last Will & Testament of said John Stanton late of Charlestown Yeoman bearing Date the 14th Day of January 1744 which Will is duly proved and approved of the said David Stanton among other things did give and devise to me the said Adam Stanton a certain quantity of Land in said Coventry as the aforementioned for as during the natural life of the said John Stanton and after the said John Stanton's decease to his Heirs forever Amen Day by Y^e 3^rd witnessed in the Office of Council Co in the County of Kent Charlestown may and there appears after And whereas it is agreed between John Stanton and me the said Adam Stanton that it shall and may be lawful in the said Stanton's remaining interest for a time and common Recovery in order that the said John Stanton may have a good Marketable Title to such part of the Premises as are in his possession & common Recovery the said Adam Stanton do by these Presents evoke and appoint and in my stead place him Y^e said John Stanton of South Kingston in the County of Kent Gentleman to be my sole Attorney and sufficient Attorney and in my Name to make any act or Convenant of Offer for the Purchasing of Estate in Stances as aforesaid And I Do hereby utterly and fully empower the said John Stanton to make & execute such Deed of Conveyance whatever and actually that it shall and may be lawful in the hands of John Stanton to covenant and agree to the Demandant that it shall and may be lawful for the said Demandant of the aforesaid Premises to demand against the Covenant of the Defendant the aforesaid Lands and Tenements who shall call the said John Stanton to warrant the whole therefore vouch the said Adam Stanton who shall appear by his Attorney John Stanton of South Kingston vouch the said Convenant And I the said Adam Stanton for my self my Heirs my Devise do covenant and agree that whatever the said John Stanton of South Kingston do in the Enclosure shall be to all intent purpose as good and valid as though I my self were lawfully present Witness my hand and seal hereunto for my Hand & Seal this [illegible] day of [illegible] in the Sixth Year of this present August Reign 1771 Adam Stanton L[s] Witnessed John Cornile Windham y County March the 17^th 1772 John Cornile [illegible] Then generally appeared the Adam Stanton the Signer & State of me of aforementioned Covenantment and acknowledged y same to be his Act Deed Before me Ephraim Robt Justice of Peace To all People to whom these Presents shall come I John Stanton now of in the County of Windham Colony of Connecticut Yeoman Do grant Convey Release and John Stanton to divers good Considerations more than sufficient money have constituted appointed and by Y^e said John Stanton of South Kingston in the County of Kent to be my sole and lawful Attorney agent or in me in all cases whatever but more especially to make & execute in my name all whatever Leases of Releases & Covenants of Quit Claim that shall and may be necessary to and for the a Time and Common Recovery to pass sundry Lands and Tenements described in the exemplary

186 of a certain Deed to be had and recorded at the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery to be hold in South Kingstown in and for the County of Kings County the First Monday of April 1787. & the said John Stanton to be hereby seized and impressed the said [illegible] to be and execute all and singular the duties, reliefs, duties & Coroners of his office aforesaid, and shall and may be necessary for the judging the same sum a Recovery in manor as aforesaid, in writ & judge & effectual. And as soon as the say it may be so reasonably present. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand this 21st day of June 1787. Witness [illegible] Carter Halsey [illegible] Chris Thorp [illegible] John Stanton L.S. The State of Rhode Island & Province Kings County for George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth Knoweth That among the Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize & General Gaol for Delivery, begun and held at South Kingstown, within the County of Kings County the First Monday of the Sixth Month of the Year of the reign of our most Gracious Majesty George the Third King etc. Aug 1787 before Stephen Thompson Esq. & [illegible] Justice of the same Court, until the called to wit contained a certain Court to be held at South Kingstown, within the County of Kings County George the Third King Monitor of April, in the Eighth Year of the reign of our most Gracious Majesty George the Third King etc. during which John [illegible] of South Kingstown in the County of Kings County found in his own proper Person demand of [illegible] College in South Kingstown of ten years [illegible] certain two Lots or Parcels of Land lying in the County of Kings County viz a part of one Lot of land of certain Thirty Acres of Plainable Wasteable, and is bounded Easterly upon Samuel Stanton Land, North westerly upon John Stanton's Land, South upon Christopher Bakehouse Land. Easterly upon Daniel Stanton Land. the other Lot East or South of said con's [illegible] Mountain Acres of Wetland, and is bounded Northerly upon Samuel Stanton, Westerly upon Samuel Stanton, Northerly & Easterly upon Daniel Stanton, as the right and to heritance with which the said John Stanton has held not only but also unless after the Devises which English Court of equity and without judgment made to the said Court Stanton within County [illegible] & then and the said John Stanton was found to have the Lands & Parcels aforesaid said viz and with the Appurtenances in Demesne as of Fee, and in Right in the time of Cause of our Lord the King which now is taking full Right thereof to the Value of 5g. and therefore he brings his suit 5g. And the aforesaid [illegible] defendant in his own proper person come & defends he defends his Right which he [illegible] and calls those of common fame now of [illegible] inhabitants upon said [illegible] and Women who being reputed honest in Court, in his own proper Person the said John Stanton demands against the said John Stanton does not by Writ of his [illegible] to be him lawfully found in his Demesne as of Fee [illegible] and thereupon he [illegible] the said thing that now is in taking the full Right thereof to the Value of 5g. and into which Thompson he brings his suit 5g. And the aforesaid [illegible] defends his Right when he [illegible] And further calls Thompson as Warrant Adams Stanton of Coventry