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To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know Ye that
Daniel Peckham of Charlestown in the County of Kent County in the Colonly
of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation in New England Woman for Divers
good Causes and Consideration me hereunto moved I make known I make Especially to
said in consideration of the sum of Five hundred & Pounds of before the sealing hereof be
of New England to me in hand paid & by the sealing hereof well & truly
paid by the said Christopher the town County & State aforesaid said labour
the said Christopher aforesaid named & signed any office whatever with full seisin
and Contented Have Given Granted Bargained Sold Allowed Conveyed &
and by these presents Do freely fully & Absolutely Give Grant Bargain and Convey
other grants and Confirm unto the said Silas Greenman man his heirs
& assigns one certain Tract or Parcel of Land situated lying & being in
Charlestown aforesaid containing by Estimation Eighty & one rods be the same more
les Broad & following ly Beginning at a Black Oak Tree marked
the East side 12 degrees North 19 degrees west setted upon Robert Johnson
Land thence south 30 degrees west 30 rods in the Greenmans Land then
south 19 degrees East rolled on the Greenmans Land thence East 30 rods up
north 38 rods on Conley Staton Land unto the firsts mentioned Tree
To Have and to hold the said Granted premises with all the Appurtenances
Priviledge & Convenits belonging to the same or in any wise appertaining
unto the said Silas Greenman man his Heirs & assigns forever both to this &
only proper use benefit & behoof of forever and I the said Daniel Peck
for myself my heirs Executors & administrators Do Forever promise &
grant unto the said Silas Greenman man his Heirs & assigns that he shall be
from then the true sole & lawful owner of the above above granted premises as
an lawfully Seized & quieted of the same in unmoved proper Right title
as a good perfect & Absolute state of Estate in the Simple hence
in myself good & Right full Power Lawfull authority to sell and
dispose of the same aforesaid and that the above above Organised premises
and every part thereof is absolutely free from all manner of claims of the
former Right Grants Bargains Sale Leas Mortgage writ Seizures Interdict
Debts lawsuits Maintenance or Incumbrances & Either to Furthermore
I the said Daniel Peckham for my heirs Executors & administrators Do covenant
and Agree the above Demised premises unto the said Silas Greenman man
his Heirs & assigns Against the lawful Claims Terms and demands of any Person
or Persons whatever forever or presume on the one there whereon these
witness my hand authal Date Tested this tenth Day of January in the year
of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third by his Grace of Great Britain
of the Britishs Dominion over his colonies and lands handed & sealed
Right to be Delivered
In presence of
Stephen Saunders
[illegible]
Stephen Saunders appeared this Sixteenth Day of January aforesaid and
acknowledged the above Instrument to be his deed
hand & seal before me Stephen Saunders Justice
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