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Presenters, and Administrators and Assigns prime, have given granted bargained sold alienated released
conveyed and confirmed a certain tract or Parcel of Land situate lying and being in the Town as
above said and contains by Estimation One Acre be the same more or less, with one Dwelling House
thereupon built and bounded and bounded as followeth beginning at a Heap of Stones at the North East Corner
running Ten Rods South eastbound on the Highway that runs from Fartheron in Bridge down to the
Old Road Four feet of Stones from thence running West Quarter North East on s Highway to a Heap
of Stones from thence running Northwesterly Ten Rods on the Grantors the Heap of Stones from thence
running Southeast Ten Rods on the Grantors to a Heap of Stones from thence lastly running on the
Grantors to the first mentioned bounds to have and to hold all the above mentioned Premises and
Appurtenances once more and forever to enjoy and possess the same as a good Estate in fee Simple And
that of and after the paying of the following and thereby hereof I the William Browning am the true
and lawful Owner of the above said Land Premises and Appurtenances and have in every right full
and lawful Warranty to make make full or above and I shall after the Descending and Delivery of
thes Presents I the sd William Browning do bind and oblige myself my Heirs Executors and Assigns
and Assigns forever to warrant and defend all the above sd Land Premises and Appurtenances
unto the said John Colton his Heirs Assigns Executors and Administrators Assigns forever as
full Owners of any Person whatsoever and the sd William Browning do hereby declare that all
the above Land is clear of all Encumbrances whatever and that the sd John Colton his Heirs
Executors and Administrators and Assigns shall and may after the Receiving and Delivery hereof
peace ably and quietly to have and to hold belonging unto him properly and approp[erly] the above sd Land Premises
and Appurtenances then unto him by Nature heirs and Elizabeth the wife of the
named William Browning set forth right request and demand upon all her Right Claims etc
of the Land in the above mentioned Land and Premises thousand thousand [illegible]
In Witness whereof we have set our Hands and Seals this Third Day of July in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In Presence of
[Signature]
Peter Browning
Step[hen] Browning
William Browning [Seal]
Elizabeth Browning [Seal]
The foregoing Deed was
remitted the 23d Day of
October 1777
p. J. Congdon the Clk
Charlestown in Kingon County sc
Personally appeared the Subscribers to William Browning and
Elizabeth his Wife this First Day of July AD 1777 and
acknowledged the above Instrument to be their Act and Deed Hand
and Seals Before me Peter Co[ll]ins Justice
Know all Men by these Presents that I the within named
Samuel Co[ll]ins for and in Consideration of the Sum of One Hundred and Seven Pounds
Lawful Money to me in Hand before the Evening hereof well and truly paid by
Gardiner Lath[am] of North Smithfield ten and I Charleston in the County of Providence
Person the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and myself Herewith paid full
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seized, contented and said and of every foot and inch being, do forever give
and surrender all my right Title, and Interest of the within Mortgage Did
unto the last Will and Testament of John Gardiner in some Common administrators or heirs &
and their only proper Heirs Beneficiaries and Body heirs forever. And I the said Isaac
Gardiner for myself my heirs Receiver and Administrators do assign transfer to the
said Robert Gardiner his heirs successors forever all the Right and Property of mine
within written Indenture to receive and recover all and every the sums of money
and the sums of money that shall be due upon the same as in the said Mortgage is expressed
and Covenants and Agreements to and appertains as if I had been the mortgagor
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Day of [illegible]
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