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To all People to whom these Presents shall come Mary Lewis of
North Kingstown in the County of Kings County Southwoman Sender Greeting Know ye That
I the said Mary Lewis do for and in Consideration of the Sum of Ten Pounds lawful Money to me
in hand before the Conveyance hereof well and truly paid by Daniel Lewis of Catoctaw in
County of Kenton the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge me by these presents quit
and contented, grant remised released and released, by the right Device degree grant
and contracted, Have given granted remised and released unto the said Daniel Lewis in the
demeane respect and same proportion and Assigns forever all that Piece of land situt
actualy located and known, and termed, to be her Low and Assigns forever all that Piece of land situt
County Kenton Daniel have have, had a right to have in & right to have in & right to have in a certain
Piece of land situate in North Kingstown with the North and South boundary
of said Lewis in the North boundary containing about Sixty Acres in the form more or less Bounded on the North
boundary on the Salt Marsh from the West Side at a Stone, home about Eighty
Degrees East by the following England's Lands boundary bounding by the Sea, Easterly bounded
on the Salt Marsh where the Beach runs in into the Sea West and South bounded
on the Salt Pond, it being the whole of my present Claim or Demand of all the lands there
that was my sole Heritages lying adjoining s Narragansett Beach, however
Bounded or reputed to be bound there
To have and to hold the granted remised and released demise with
all and singular the rights Benefits Privileges and Appurtenances to the same
belonging or in any way appertaining unto the said Daniel Lewis his Heirs and
Assigns forever his Right Benefit and Bequest forever for that neither the
Assigns his or any their sole person or claim exchange or demand any Date Right Title
or Interest in or unto the hereby delivered Demise or any Part thereof, Das shall have a
will leave be utterly forfeited and delivered by this Present.
In Witness whereof I have here unto set my Hand and Seal the twenty second Day
of March Anno Domini 1771 Mary Lewis [seal]
Signed sealed & delivered in
Presence of
Piley Coggs
Rep Lewis
Kings County Ct at North Kingstown the Day and Date
first above written personally appeared the above Subscriber
Mary Lewis & acknowledged the above and foregoing
Instrument to be her Act & Deed, Hand & Seal there
affixed Before me Piley Coggs Justice of the Peace
The foregoing Deed was
recorded the 24th Day of
April 1771 by
Jas Longston Clrk