The instrument's own words
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Signed, sealed & delivered
in Presence of
Joseph Denijon
Poly Cross
Recorded March 1 1782
by J. S. Comdnry for the State
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Kings County S.S. Personally appeared the Subscribers Charles
Church and Susannah his Wife in Charleston the 23d Day
of May AD 1782, and acknowledged the above Instrument
Agreement to be their voluntary Act Dead Hands and
Seals Before me Poly Cross Justr Peace
To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Cordelia Fisher
son of Charles town in the County of Kings County in the State of South Carolina
send Greeting Whereas that I and the said Cordelia Johnson for and in Consideration
of the sum of seventy five Spanish milled Dollars to me in Hand paid after the receiving
house by Ephraim Bardick of Charleston in the County and State aforementioned then
and Right whereas I do hereby acknowledge my self fully satisfied and pleased and
of every Part thereof do execute and assign and discharge from the said Ephraim Bardick his
Heirs Descendants and Administrators forever by these presents Give grant quitclaim
and sell forever and confirmed and confirmed by these Presents do forever fully and absolutely grant
grant bargain sell alien convey and confirm unto him his Heirs Ephraim
Bardick his Heirs and Assigns forever an certain Tract or Parcel of Land situated lying
and being in Charleston town for I containing by Estimation ten hundred acres more or less
Quarterly in the form more or less and is bounded as follows Beginning at
a Least Tree standing on the South Side of the Road from town toward the easternly
to a heap of Stones on the Border of the Land belonging to James Cockham and from
there Easterly on S. D. P. Land’s road to an heap of Stones on the Border of
the Land belonging to Stephen Allen and from there northward to a heap of Stones by
the Road first mentioned and from there Westward as the Road runs to the first mentioned
a Least Tree which is South West Corner of said Tract.
To have and to hold the said bargain Premises with all and app
Privileges thereunto belonging unto him the said Ephraim Bardick his Heirs and Assigns
forever to him and then unto his Heirs and Assigns forever. The said Cordelia Johnson for and
my self my Heirs Leirs Successors Assigns do covenant and grant to him and the said Ephraim
Bardick his Heirs and Assigns that as and before in the Premises here in I have the riv
and Lawful Owner of the above bargain Premises and have lawfully possessed of the same
in my own free Right and good perfect Seisin in the said Land and in every good
Right and lawful Authority to grant bargain sell the same that he said Bardick his
Heirs and Assigns shall and may by force and virtue of these Presents lawfully possessably
and quietly have hold and enjoy & promise with the Appurtenances for pure and clean and
freely and clearly covenanted and discharged of and from every Claim name or Intract
ment of what kind or nature ever what might in any Degree make void the present
Furthermore
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Furthermore I the said Theodaly Johnson for my self my heirs and Assigns do
do covenant and engage the above denounced Remise to him the said Ezraen Brandal his
Heirs and Assigns against the lawful Claims or Demands of any Person whereas
promise to warrant or defend by these Presents in Writing whereof I have hereunto set
my Hand and Seal this 24 Day of April 1781
Signed Sealed and Delivered
in presence of
[illegible]
[illegible] Brandal
[illegible]
Recorded March 1st 1882
C. A. Conradon ca Clerk
State of Rhode Island
County of Kent ss. Notably the 7th of June 1781
Personally appeared the Sufferon hs M. H. [illegible]
Johnson and acknowledged the within and above Instrument
to be his free Act At Dan Land & Sale
Sufferon hs Ezraen Brandal Inst Pres
To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Know ye That I Stephen Allen late of Charleston in the State of Rhode Island but now
residing in Providence in the County of New London State of Connecticut Given under me in
Consideration of the Sum of One Hundred and Two Dollars between Solo witness to me in this Deed
and headquarters of Allen before the Justices of our well and truly laid by Jonathan
Hazard joint of Charleston in the County of Washington and Colony of State of Rhode Island
the Council witness of Else here by acknowledge and my self fully satisfied calculated
and paid and of every heart and soul reserve myself to covenant august and discharge him
Jonathan Hazard jun his Heirs Descendants and Assigns forever And by these Presents
HAVE given grant bargained paid field aimed unleashed convey and confirmed and by these
Presents do freely fully and absolutely by give grant bargain sell alien utmost convey
and confirm unto him the said Jonathan Hazard jun his Heirs and Assigns forever a certain
tract of Land situate lying and being in Charleston also there containing One Hundred
Acres be the same more or less and is butter and bound as follows viz Southerly
by Southly
on a Highway Castly on Thomas Rice Lands Northly on the Heirs of [illegible]
on a Highway Land and partly on James Dickins Land Northly on Theodaly Johnson
Johnson jun Land until it comes to the vicinity bound Bound but the same be there wise Bound
Land until it comes to the vicinity bound Bound but the same be there wise Bound
or reputed to be bounded
To have and to hold the said granted Premises with all the Privileges
and Appurtenances to the same belonging or in any way appertaining unto him the
Jonathan Hazard jun his Heirs and Assigns forever to his heirs and their assigns Respect and
forever And I the sd Stephen Allen for my self my Heirs Reputants and Assigns
do covenant promise and grant to and with the said Jonathan Hazard jun his Heirs and
Assigns that at and before the Expiring term I am the true Sole and lawful
Owner
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