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With all the Privileges and appurtenances There on or there to belonging or in any wise appertaining to
to his and their only use benefit and behoof for Ever and I the sd Joseph Kenyon on the 9th do for My Self
My Heirs Executors or Admts to Covenant and Grant to and with the sd Caleb Kenyon his heirs and assigns
forever the Entirety of some Part of the Town of Providence and Counties of the same and any uncertainty of the same
as a Good Estate of Inheritance in Fee simple and liberar in my Sole Self Good right full Power and
Lawfull authority to Convey and Confirm the same in manner and form as above it is said
that sd Caleb Kenyon on his heirs and assigns shall Stay and Enjoy for Ever have after all right
and Enjoy the same freely and Clearly acquitted and Discharged of and from all other the Rights
or Incumbrances whatsoever further I the sd Joseph Kenyon 8 August my Self My Heirs
Executors administrator etc to Covenant and Impugn the same unto him that sd Caleb Kenyon
his heirs and assigns forever against all the Lawfull Claims or Demands of any Person whatsoever
Do Covenant warrant and Defend the same and Ruth Kenyon affecting to set their Seal of her own
free will hereunto and surrender'd ye seal as trustee of Owner and Power of theirs in the same
the sd Caleb Kenyon his heirs and assigns forever In Witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hand and seal this the 12th Day of March sd 1779 Joseph Kenyon Seal
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Joseph
Samuel Stanton Caleb Kenyon Seal
Robert Stanton
Providence County Court March the 12th 1779
Robert Stanton Justice
The forerd Caleb Kenyon the presenter the presenter the within Suffrance
for the Gov Gen’l
was executed and
Compared the 22nd Day of March 1779 by Before Me Robert Stanton Justice
March 1779 the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
To all People to whom these Presents shall come, I Henry whiskers
of Providence in the County of kings County and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation do make know
Know that I that the said Henry Addins for and in Consideration of the sum of fifty
Pounds lawful money of the same in Hand paid before the executing these presents and fully paid by
sd Addins now residing in Charlestown in the County of Kent former the Rhode Island which said
Henry whiskers and my then formerly fully satisfied contented and paid and through and
of some Parcel of land therefore to express assign and discharge the same from the said Henry Addins
his Heirs Executors and Administrators forever by these Presents Will give grant release
quit claim absolutely assigned conveyed composed conveyed and confirmed by the said Henry whiskers
absolutely conveyed grant forever free alien solemn clear and confirm unto the said Henry
Addins his Heirs and assigns a certain Tract or Parcel of Land situated lying on
being in said Charlestown containing by Estimation Sixty Acres be the same more or less
is bounded and abutted as followeth beginning by the Southern line of sd Addins land be to a stake with
the Cedar swamp south there remaining be said John Addison Land run it east to a stake with
Stones about them Then N 45° E by Addins Land run it comes to a Gen’l Lot then
N 65° E four Chains and forty five rods Length by the Cedar Swamp run it comes to Thomas
Anlowers Land then E 6 S I by said Anlowers Land run it to a stake by the Swamp
then N 65° E Eight Chains and 25 Links in said Swamp then S 15° W run it comes
to Nathan Turkers Land by Joshua Corks Corner and Southerly by said Nathan
Turkers
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their land until it comes to said Cedar-Swamp Both, then running by said Both
until it comes to the first mentioned Bounds, or however the same may be bounded
or reputed to be bounded, it being the whole of the Land that I said Henry Addams
or reputed to be bounded, it being the whole of the Land that I said Henry Addams
bought of Simon Shepard, together with the Dwelling House and Barns there standing
To have and to hold the said grant and bargained Premises, with all
the Appurtenances Privileges and Commodites to the same belonging, or in any wise appu-
tening to him the said Thomas Addams his Heirs and Assigns forever, to him & his only
forever. Right Benefit and Privilege forever. And I the said Henry Addams for myself my
Heirs Recouters and Admins forever do covenant promise and grant to and with the said
Thomas Addams his Heirs and Assigns that at or before the Feast of St Michael the Ar[ch]
Sole and lawful Owner of the above bargained Premises, and an lawful person free of
impeshed of the same in my own Right as a good lawful and absolute Estate of Nature
born in the Mother, And have in my own right Good lawful Title forever, and after
rite, to grant bargain sell convey and confirm the said bargained Premises, in Manner as
above said. And that said Thomas Addams his Heirs and Assigns shall have and may
from Time to Time, and at all times Forever have hold, by me, by my Heirs and Heirs Reput
lawfully peaceably pure and quietly have occupy possess and enjoy the said bargained
Premises, with the Appurtenances free and clear, and freely and clearly
acquitted acquitted, and discharged of all and all manner of summons and of
Other Gfts Grants Bargains Leases Leases, Mortgages, Wills, Estates, powers, Devises, grants
ments, Demands or Causes because of what Name or Nature however that might in any Way happen
or Degree, offset or made void this present Deed.
And FURTHERMORE, I the said Henry Addams for myself my Heirs, Recouters and
Administrators, do covenant and agree the above described Premises, to him the said
Thomas Addams, his Heirs and Assigns, against the lawful Claims or Demands of my
Person or Persons whatsoever forever, to warrant forever and defend, by the Present
And Henry Mary Addams Wfe to the said Henry Addams doth join and concur
join, by this Present write and seal and confirm to the above said Thomas Addams all her
Right of Power and Power of thirds of in and unto the above described Premises
In Witness whereof we the said Henry Addams and Mary his Wfe have here unto set
our Hands and Seals, this fourteenth Day of March, in the Year of Our Lord 1779
Henry Addams L.S.
Mary Addams L.S.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
John Congdon
James Gidley
Henry Hall
Rhode Island County L.S.
At Charlestown aforesaid, the day above wrote
the foregoing Deed was recorded
(this presently appeared Henry Addams before me the above
Instrument and acknowledged the above to be his voluntary
Act and Deed, and dated, with his Hand and Seal there to affixed
on the 13th Day of July 1779.
By Jos Congdon Cl. Court)
Before James Congdon the 3rd Justice’s Court
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