The instrument's own words
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Person any office and ll [illegible] at North & Hill & House on [illegible]
South Hill the Day and year a above written and Acknowledged
their Instrument to be theirs Written to and Deed hand and
Seal before me
Stanton York Justice of Peace
The above Deed was recorded 7j Day of December 1787
By Jos ph & Hovey Depy Co [illegible]
Capt Daniel Munson of Charlestown in the County of Kenye [illegible]
Citizen of Rhode Island & Being Duly Sworn in Oath Doth Depose
that some time in the Lot of April 1784 Day at Noon [illegible]
Broad Street in the St. Charlestown and there was then Capt Cardinal of late
[illegible] and found talking with some other about a boat for that the
said Capt had bought of Samuel [illegible] on Nelson Man and a Cardinal said that
he had a [illegible] and he had a Suspicion that the said boat was [illegible]
stolen from the box where he might have laid it and said Munson Related to
Deliver the News to Capt [illegible] and Cardinal said that the boat was [illegible] to be
You may have it [illegible] Proof it to be your boat and Cardinal said to [illegible]
the [illegible] and the boat it states to get some Money for the boat and Either in the
Door Loves got the Boat and say you May carry the Boat home your self and
Have a Dispute between [illegible] and [illegible] other which should carry the boat
and so Finally agreed to Leave it to the Which should carry the boat
Capt Daniel Munson and after that they said that they would carry the Boat home
as as my Agreement that so far as I should carry the Boat home for the office of [illegible]
I Gave me Engagement I Signed my Agreement by my Signature and then
went away and left [illegible] Cardinal at St. [illegible] & Daniel Munson
Jos ph Solomon Engagement in Charlestown in the County and Town of
the Tenth Day of December [illegible] of the Year For Perpetual Memory of the thin
Before me Caleb Champflin Justice of Peace Stanton York [illegible]
Lucy Stiles offered at above said Time and Place and made oath to [illegible]
of the above as a Forgoing Substance
Lucy Stiles
Jos ph Solomon Engagement in Charlestown in my County and
above on 7th Day of December [illegible] of the time before me
Daniel Munson [illegible] Caleb Champflin Justice of Peace
Jos ph S. [illegible] Stanton York Justice of Peace
Lucy Stiles [illegible]
10.0.17 The whole cost 10.9.1
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[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] 12 December 1764 by Joseph Moore, Clerk Ct.
To all People to whom these Presents shall Come
I, Mo[r]is Nugrett of Charlestown in Trengee County in the Colony of S. C.
[illegible] Chief Clerk of the Magistrates Country Send greeting. Know ye that I, Mo[r]is
Nugrett aforesaid for and in consideration of Eighty five thousand two thousand and six
hundred Pound Current money of the sd tenor to be in Hand before the
[illegible] and Seal, Paid by Thomas Shearman of South Kingstown in the Co[un]ty
and Colony of Providence [illegible] (the receipt whereof I do hereby act acknowledge
and my self therewith fully satisfied contented and Paid all and all thereof) and of
the first and Peril Thereof do Remise release Acquit and Discharge unto the sd
Said Thomas Shearman his Heirs Rector and Administrators forever by
these Presents have given granted and set aside aforesaid (see)
(confirmed) and by these Presents decently fully and absolutely quit rent
Bargain will shall evoke convey convey and Confirm unto him the sd Thomas
Shearman his Heirs and Assigns forever one certain Tract or Parcel of
Land situate lying and being in the Town of Charlestown aforesaid
containing by Estimation fifty Acres be the same more or less as follows
(to wit) Beginning at Southwest corner thereof of a white
pine Tree from hence Running South 78 Degrees west 44 chains and
[illegible] in the Land Description of James Daniel to a large rock
about 12 chains it thence S 29 Degrees E 12 chains to a Stake and Moreover
it thence S 28 Degree East 18 & 40 to a Stake and Hence about
[illegible] W 4.28 to a Stake and Hence Hence N 89 Degrees West 42.6
[illegible] in possession of John Stacy to a Stake and that of hence South 34.40
[illegible] to a white oak leave marks Hence N 81 Degree West 38.50 all
Job Clarke's Land to a Brush Swamp or Tree by the Dear Swamp and from
thence a Straight Line to the Place of Beginning
To Have and to Hold the said grants and Bargains Premises with all and
[illegible] appurtenances Privileges and conveniences to the Same belonging or in any wise appertaining
to him the Said Thomas Shearman his Heirs and assigns forever to his and her
Thereby Proper use a benefit and behalf forever and the said