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386 maintain all the fences that enclose the within mentioned & described cropland for the same performance of which I here do hereby bind & oblige my self my heirs Executors Adminrs and assigns during the Term aforesaid in witness whereof I have set my hand the Day the Date within written written before signed & sealed in the Ditto Dist. Note also the meaning and intent of the above is that I Promise to make & maintain 2 fences on the north & west side of said lot In Presence of Jo. Gidley Thos Horse [seal] (Asa Condal) Washington [illegible] for & the Date within Written The within subscribing as Notary Toff & Dover Toff has this Day personally Appeared and acknowledged the within Instrument to be their free act and Deed Signed and sealed before me Joseph Condal Justice Peace Recorded the 28th Day of Jan.y 1797 [illegible] [signature] [illegible] Champin Clrk in D. [illegible] To all People to whom these Presents shall Come, I Hen ry Welch of Charlestown in County of Washington & State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Weaver first, Greeting - Know ye that I the said Henry Welch for my and in consideration of the sum of one hundred & fifty pounds lawfull money of my own hand Paid by Joseph Arthur of the same Charlestown Yeoman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and that from this town with fully content satisfied and Paid I have given Granted bargained Sold aliened and passed conveyed and confirmed and by these Presents I the said Henry Welch do for my self & my heirs fully fully and absolutely give Grant bargain sell alien in all ways convey and confirm unto the said Joseph Arthur his heirs and assigns for ever three Certain Tracts of Parcells of land lying and being in the Town of Charlestown aforesaid one of said Tract of Land being the Town aforesaid containing my about forty acres bolted and bounded as now by a Deed made & granted by the vacuum George Winnegot bearing Date June the fourth 1792 unto William Welch will appear, one other of said Tracts lying contiguous to and adjoining the former Tract containing Twelve acres one date

303 By Seventeen Rod, 44 in East & Standard agreeable to & added under the thirtieth Day of August 1771 by the Committee appointed to sell the late Sachem's Lands, [illegible] Effect to William Welch the other Court being 100 acres of land containing about Ten Acres one half, about three acres there of being up Land, the remaining Parts though rough scrubby, wooded Easternly part or diverse in a diverse lotts belonging to Somethings thou [illegible] and partly on a swamp Southly one fourth of Water, Northly & Northly & the South the both together with all the Buildings Houses wells Drains and Water to the aforesaid Desired Premises belonging or any wife appertaining being all the Effects Entitled right & title of all the aforesaid Premises and appur tenances to the same belonging with William Welch of Charlestown, On veyed to me by his deed dated the twenty first day of July 200770 To have and to hold the Land granted and bargained and Premises with all the appurtenances privileges & Convenances to the same belong ing or any wife appertaining with him the J. Joseph Wilcox his Heirs and Assigns for ever and to his and their only proper uses benefit & behoof for ever And I the sd Wm Welch for my self my Heirs Executors and Administrator do hereby covenant grant agree and to with the J. Joseph Wilcox his Heirs and assigns that as and before the Execution of this Present Same land fully seized & possessed of the Premises aforesaid I have in me good Right Title & full authority to sell and Dispose of the Same in manner as aforesaid, and that by these Present’s the sd Joseph Wilcox his Heirs and Assigns shall be seized of the Premises aforesaid in Fee simple, and that the Same land premises and appurtenances are free and Clear of all encumbrances of any Nature kind or Quality whatever And that I will warrant Seize and Defend the Same Premises against the Claims & Demand of all Persons whomsoever unto the sd Joseph Wilcox his Heirs and Assigns. In Witness Whereof I have set my hand and seal this twentyeth of February in Year of our lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty four and in the eighth Year of Independence Signed Sealed & delivered In Pursue of us Robt Crop your George Pe beckham Henry Welch (53)

388 John Champlin Lyda Welch Catharine X Welch mark Washington Do sit South Kingstown February 20 1787 I personally appear the subscriber Mr. Henry Welch and as know ledge the above and afore written Deed to be his fee Act and Deed Hand and Seal thanks affixed Before Beckham Justi Pax Record the Feby 21 1787 by me John Champlin T. Clk 1787 To all people to whom this Presents shall come Know ye that I Joseph Stanton of Charlestown in the County of South- kington Yeoman, for and in Consideration of the sum of Three Hundred Pounds lawful money to me in hand well and Truly Paid by him any Stanton of the same Charlestown Gentleman the Receipt Whereof I do Acknowledge my self there with fully satisfied Contented and Paid do the Leave tennis and forever quit claim unto him the Sd Henry Stanton his Heirs and Assigns for Ever any and my Right Title Interest Property I Claim Should or ought to have unto and Concerning Three Tracts or Parcels of Lands situated lying in the Sd Charlestown One of the Sd Tracts Contains by Estimation Eighty Acres in the same more or less and is bounded & bounded as followeth Viz Beginning at the South Corner of Lands to Christopher Bedlock and the Lands the Granter formerly Sold to George Bedlock being Sd Deed Recited from there Running South Eleven Degrees and a Quarter East ninety Eight Rods to a Stake with stones about it running Sd Bedlock southeasterly from frontier Running East Eleven Degrees and Quarter north ninety Eight Rods to a Black Oak Tree marked on four sides it being the Bedlock southeasterly line from there Eleven Degrees and Quarter East thirty three Rods to a Stake with stones about it being Joseph Stanton southeasterly line from there Running Dexterly by the Country Road one Hundred and thirty two Rods to a stake with stones about it from there Running north Eleven Degrees and a Quarter east one Hundred and and