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5/26/1762 · DEED · book 2 page 95 doc 13257

From POTTER ROBT life
To POTTER WILLIAM life
Consideration Two Thousand Pounds
Premises forty acres · tract of land bounded by Country Road, High Way, John Hill and Thomas Brown (Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE FISHER MARY F EST · RELEASE PRUCKER ANNE M EST

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▶ 1766 · DEED · POTTER WILLIAM; POTTER SARAH → POTTER ROBERT · book 2 p 280
▶ 1771 · MORTGAGE · POTTER WILLIAM; POTTER SARAH → KINYON NATHAN · book 3 p 45

Bounded by

John Hill · John Hill · Thomas Browning · Thomas Browning · Job Card · Job Card · Elipha Clark

The instrument's own words

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hereafter be current secure and [illegible] dead. And Mary Rinyon on the of the said Nathan Rinyon doth by these presents freely & willingly gr yield up and surrender all her right of [illegible] of [illegible] of in June the above Demised Premise, unto him hera & Benjamin Rinyon his heirs and Assigns forever Corporation whereof we have here unto put our hands and affixed our seal, this thirteen Day of October & in the fourth year of his Majestie Reign & in the Year of our Lord Anno Domini 1761 Signed Sealed & Delivd by Nathan Rinyon & se in Presence of Joshua Rinyon Samuel Rinyon The above Deed was record d [illegible] Day of May 1762 per Home for len King County The above subscriber Nathan Rinyon & Mary his w[ife] both appeared in Cou rt on the Date above & acknowledged the abon and before me William Instrument to be their la ly Act & Deed with their hand & seal hereto affixed before me Sam Rinyon Justice of the [illegible] To all People who shall come before this shall Come Mod Potter of Charlestown Kings County Yeoman Send Greeting Know & [illegible] that I the sd Potter alter for and in consideration of the sum of One Thousand Pound one in hand & the remaining hereof well and truly paid by William Potter of the same Town & County forevour Labourer the Receipt whereof is hereby by acknowledging myself there with fully Satisfied Contented and Rid and hereby ever and ever and Perel therefore do covenant acquit and discharge him said William Potter for his Executors & Admins forever by these Presents Give Grant Bargain fully and absolutely Give Grant Bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto him the sd William Potter his heirs & Assigns forever one Certain tract of Land situate in Charlestown containing forty acres line southerly on the Country Road westerly partly on the High Way & partly on Land of John Hill northerly partly on John Hill's land and par on Thomas Brown's land And Easterly on the frontiers Land to make up to twenty Acres Land I have and to hold said Grant & Bargain of emyes to him the said William Potter his Heirs & Assigns forever
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96 To his and their own proper use benefit & behoof forever and I the said Robert for my self my Heirs Executor & Admr do covenant promise & Grant with the sd William Potter his heirs & assigns that at and before the Enacting hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner between the above Bargains & Sale and am lawfully Seized of the same in my own right of Estate in the Same and have had right to Dispose of the same in Manner & Form and the said William Potter his Heirs & assigns shall from times to time have the use Occupy Repose & Enjoy the sd Demised Remise with the Appurtenances free & Clear Acquitted & Discharged of all manner of some Gift Bargain Said [illegible] Whatever is furthermore the said Robt for my self my Heirs do Covenant & Engage the above demised to him the sd William Potter his Heirs & assigns against the Lawful Claims of all Persons Whatever In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 18 Day of April in the 2nd year of his Majesties Reign George the third over Great Britain 1762 Signed Sealed & Delivd Robt Potter [seal] in Presence of us Gile Rafael Prudence Coleman The Subscriber Aphaead the Day & Year within written & acknowledged the W it to be his Act & Deed hand and seal hereunto affixed The above Deed was recorded Before me Caleb Coggs Justice of the Peace the 11th day of may 1762 [signature] Geo. H. Hopkins Justice To All People whom they shall Come Meeting Know Ye that I William Browning of South Kingstown in Newport County & Colony of Rhode Island and Providence for my Consideration of the love Good will & Affection which I have and do bear towards my loving Son Jno Browning of the town of South kingstown in my County & Colony said Jno Browning have given to be granted to by they presence to be Only and Absolutely free & grant to my sd Jno Browning his Heirs Executors Adminstrone certain Tract or Parcel of Land situated lying and being in the town of therefo fore after containing by Estimation about One Hundred Acres of Land more or less bounded as followeth North by the North part of Job Cards lot’s and partly on the part of Cash Land & Castody bounded on the South Line

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