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To all People to whom these Presents shall come, I Amos Green of Charlestown
in Kings County and State of Rhode Island Govern[or] an Greeting: Know Ye that I the said
Amos Green for and in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred and ten Pounds lawful Money of the
County of said State aforesaid paid to me in Hand actually paid by William Browning of said town in the
County and State aforesaid from whom I receive the Right whereof I am hereby seised and possessed and am entitled to
convey with all of the said aforesaid and containedly and therefore I do grant and agree and do demise the said William
Browning of said Townships there, Executor & Administrator of the Goods Estate of said Parts with grant
bargain give alien sell convey and confirmed with the said William Browning his heirs and assigns
forever a certain Piece of Land lying in and being in Charlestown in the County and State aforesaid
containing Eleven Acres of said Marsh Land, be the same more or less Bounded as followeth lying
at a Place with some Trees about it bordering by the side of the Rd Branch Brooklet, Eastward, and unto Eastward
Southwards by said Branch Brooklet until it comes to William Brownings March path, southly on the
said Path and Eastward to an Elm Tree Bach's Marsh side till it comes to the first mentioned Boundary.
To have and to hold the said piece of Land or Parcel found to gather with all rivers privileges and
Emunencies in the same lying together with the only water privilege Brooklet and Bechet from the said William
Browning for their Heirs, Executors, Administrators etc and Assigns forever And that the said Amos Green
doth hereby putsell and declare himself to be the true & lawful Owner of all the above granted &
bargained Demised or goods right useful and comfortable Habile Body of Water in the same Land
to have in my possess good Right full Power and lawful Authority to fish and distill the same in any manner
and way that then and every east That then and every east That then at the Breeding and stirring
time and so on for perpetuity And that the same are acquit and free and discharged of all Tenures of forever and
other suits, Mortgages, Dowries Demises Boundaries whatsoever that can or may in any way attachage
defect mode mutter or void this legal Bargain and Sale, or any other thing.
And further the said Amos Green with hereby covenant bind and obligate himself
his Heirs Executors and Administrators to warrant and defend the above described Premises
and every Part thereof unto the said William Browning his Heirs and Assigns forever against the
against the lawful Claims and Demands of all and every Person and other whatever
And Dorcas Green the Wife of the said Amos Green doth hereby alsoign convey and warn over
unto the said William Browning his Heirs and Assigns provide all Right of Power and Owner in
the said Marsh although the said Amos Green or Dorcas Green his Wife here with set their Hands
and Seals this Ninteenth day of August 1799.
Signed Sealed and delivered
in Presence of
Elizabeth P Phillips
Catherine Gardner
Kings County Richmond April 19th AD 1799.
Presented the 24th today
By Jos Longdon Noty
The above written Amos Green personally appeared and acknowledged
the above Deed to be his Act and Deed Hand and Seal then and there
Before me Robert Carter Justice of the Peace