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Know all Men by these Presents, That I Pelag Cross of
Charlestown, in King's County, and State of Rhode Island Yeoman for and in
Consideration of the Sum of Fifteen Pounds well and Truly paid by Daniel Otter
a Mulatto Man of the same town and County above said, the Receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge myself then with fully contented and paid Have forever
remised, released and forever quit claimed, and confirmed into the said Daniel
Otter on his actual Possession, as I began now being, and to his Heirs and
Assigns forever all my Right, Title, Interest Property, Claim Challenge and
I now have, ever had or right to have in, and to one certain Tract or Lot of
Land situated lying and being in the above said Charlestown, containing One
Acre, Butted and Bounded as follows ) Beginning at a small White Oak tree
marked, thence North Eight Degrees West Three Chains and Thirty Links, to a Stake
& Stone about it; thence West One and One Stay Degrees North, Three Chains &
Four Links to a Stake and Stone about it; thence South Eight Degrees East, Three
Chains and Twenty Links, to a Black Oak Tree, thence to the first Stake and
Bounds &d. Bounded Northerly on Lands belonging to the Indians, or Indian
Land for cattle, Easterly Southerly and Westerly on the Governor's Lands.
To have and to hold the said remised and released Premises
with all the Privileges and Appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise
appertaining unto the said Daniel Otter, his Heirs and Assigns forever to him and
their only proper Wife, Heirs, Trustees and Relatives forever; To that neither I the said Pelag
Cross, or my Heirs, Executors or Administrators or Assigns for me or them or theirs
shall or will have claim, challenge or demand any Plate Right Title, or Interest
in or unto the hereby released Premises or any Part or Parcel thereof, But shall &
will be forever hereafter by me and others of myself perfects, precluded and debated
by these Presents. Furthermore I Mary Wife to the above said Pelag Cross for
the Consideration above said, do yield up all my Right of Dower or Power of
Thirds, in the above said Premises &c. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set
Our Hands and Seals this 4th Day of July A.D. 1778.
Signed Sealed and delivered
in presence of the Witnesses
Sam: Dum
Thankful Cross
Pelag Cross L.S.
Mary Cross L.S.
The foregoing Deed was
recorded the 16th Day of
Decr 1778
J. Congdon clk.
King's County Court / Charlestown Decr 8: 1778.
Then personally appeared Pelag Cross Gent. & declared
to the with in Instruments and acknowledged the same to be his
voluntary Act & Deeds with his Hand & Seal hereunto affixed
Before James Congdon th 8th Just Peace
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