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To all People to whom these Presents shall come, I George Hazard Bucknam
of Southkingstown, in the County of Washington St Day and Sarah Bucknam his Wife, for
consideration that Zenonas Winthrop, James Smith and John Aldrich all of Southkingstown
in the County of Providence Delaware have given Lot Number One in the aforesaid Bucknam's lottery
as now laid out and plotted containing about three Acres, to the said more or less bounded
and described as follows Northerly partly on a Highway, Half yearly partly on a Northward
Thicket, Easterly partly on a Fourth Road, and otherwise however bounded on residue to be
bounded which said Lot Number One the Donors to the Bucknam's lottery have given
a deed to Zenonas Winthrop, James Smith, & John Aldrich, Now I the said George
Bucknam & Sarah his Wife their Heirs, Devices Administrators and Assigns do hereby
Quit claim all their Right Title Estate Property Interest Claim & demand of and in the aforesaid
Premises with Zenonas Winthrop, James Smith, and John Aldrich their Heirs and Assigns forever
In Witness whereof where of they have here unto set their Hands and Seals in the things herein
contained Day of April AD 1780
Nb. The Word "Premises" wrote between the
nineteenth & twentieth lines here interrelated
before Signing & sealing here of
Executed in Presence of
Nictolas Eaton
Saml. P. Potter
Recorded June 2 1783
Jas. Congdon Regr
Washington Co. Court Southkingtown April 10th AD 1780
Presently appeared the within Subscribed Geo. G. Bucknam
and Sarah his Wife, and acknowledged the within written
Instrument to be their Act and Deed
Before Samuel Babcock Jt. Comr Pleas
Charlestown Feby 7th 1783 Know all Men By these Presents
that I Joseph Stanton of Charlestown in County of Washington for the better & good
will I Bring to my sister Mary Stanton do agree that the Right and Title with Share
of Two Certain Tracts of Land bounded as follows one Tract Bounded as follows
Beginning at a stump of wall measured a chain Through Brush Direction South, will to
the first Old Road Westerly & Easterly By a P. Oak Witnessly on the Land of said Mill
thence will continue to the County Line Three chains westerly to the aforesaid
bounds the other Tract Bounded as follows At a Stone Boundary on the land of
Bucknam Westerly northerly & Easterly to the fence more stands One Tract of Land
Lying above the County Line Three Chains By the House of the Little meadow and
for the Life of & Heirs Stanton the Privilege of having a Moore on the north part of the Town
Now in my Possession During Natural Life in Consideration of which I have Signed my
own hand and sealed this Seventh Day of February in the year of our Lord
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