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To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting. Know ye that
I Joseph Carter of [illegible] Clerk at Arms in Kings County of Rhode Island & Providence, do and in Consideration
of seven Seven Pounds ten Shillings lawful Money of the said State in hand, well and truly paid by me Lodwick
Santer a Merchant in the County of Kent & Colony after a certain Indenture the seventh day of February anno
domini one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight executed and sealed, and in others of the same, dated and sealed
this day I do hereby convey, assign request and discharge the said Lodwick Santer in Kent for forever
Anno [illegible] [illegible] have given grants bargained Sold conveyed and runned unto him the land
Lodwick Santer in Kent and his Assigns forever lying in north side of South Road in South Kingstown
containing by Estimation ten Acres more or less in length Bordered on the East side on the Highway
called the South Road the said Lodwick Santer in the said parce land grants unto me the said Lodwick Santer and
his Heirs & Assigns forever in said land mortgaged to Simon Fanning Esqr to be included the old Orchard,
thence southerly to the northwest Corner of [illegible] Orchard of my father, ye made north east Corner.
The said Parcel bounded on the Southeast Northwesterly on the Corner Northwesterly on the Corner, on the East, and
Southerly on South Road and Westly to my Pasture Garden and Orchards on the East, and
containing by Estimation ten Acres more or less.
And forever to hold the said land to be bargained Conveyed unto him the said Lodwick
Santer and his Heirs forever and to him and his heirs forever By Purchase and lease: whereas the
said Lodwick Santer did hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Lodwick Santer & his Heirs forever
as follows that he and his heirs and lawful heirs executing heirs shall in due time and lawful Course of the said
leason demand and furnished the said Joseph Carter and his heirs and assigns full and sufficient payment of the same in
money of the realm Great and good gold silver and other lawful coin of Great Britain in the said currency having in
my hand good right full and clear and lawful and sufficient title to any and every part of the same in Manner as above
And that the said Lodwick Santer his Heirs and Assigns have full and any by me and others after
Prevent lawfully search explore and enter into the said land with all the Appurtenances thereunto in any manner
Manner of pasture or other things. Furthermore the said Joseph Carter has dealt duly covenant and agree that
all the heaps Beginnings boundaries marks that he and Lodwick Santer his Heirs and Assigns forever
the bought Canine or Boundaries any or others Device boundaries forever describe her
and defend the above & premises unto him the said Lodwick Santer his Heirs and Assigns forever
In Witness whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal this 1st day of December
Seventeenth Year of his most serene Reign George the third King of Great Britain etc etc etc
Signed sealed delivered and
In Presence of
[illegible]
Ephah Ames
the above Deed was
Recorded in the first Day
of November 1784
by James Cong Don R. D. on the Day and Date first written
the Wind each was entered before signing and fetching.
Joseph Santer End
Charlestown in Kings County of Providence appeared the
Scribner, before me Col Joseph Santer and acknowledged the within
Instrument to be his act Deed Hand and seal that there unto affixed, the
Before me Polcy Cross Justice Peace.
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