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Furthermore the said dirman [illegible] all and singular my house lot & lands
to Tenants and marriage have Given Donated and confirmed to him named Jeremiah [illegible]
for him Heirs & assigns any all Claims or Demands or any Tenures or Demesnes whatsoever
for ever Warrant Some and To Done by these Articles in witness Whereof We
the said Thomas Knegritt have hereunto to my hand and office set my seal this twentieth
Day of August A.D. 1767 and in the seventh year of His Majy's Reign George the
Third Since Signed & Sealed
Signed Sealed & Delivd
In the Presence of
Desire [illegible]
John Engles
Thomas Knegritt
Dated Town Kings County sc
Personally appeared before the undersigned Thomas Knegritt and acknowledged
that the Same and within Instrument is His Own Last and Deed Signed and Sealed
hereunto and offered for the Presence [illegible] the Justice
This Deed was recorded
the 8 Day of December 1767
To all People to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting
I Thomas Knegritt of Charlestown in Kings County & State of
Rhode Island and Providence for Liberties and free and Independent community merchants
Owners and operators Capacity for the One Natural Person whom I have
and Foregoing my house lot Marlborough Stanton and Henry Stanton lane
by Drawing Degrees Given Granted in Perpetuity Conveyed & Confirmed to
the Heirs Residents Freely fully and Absolutely Quite grant and convey
And Enjoin unto me and my heirs Marlborough Stanton and Henry Stanton lane
their Heirs & Assigns for ever running my Spare Tree Bottom Tails
Land Tenures & Privileges running the Town of Narragansett Town the one
Tract containing by Estimation Eighty Pure Perches of
Sand Marsh pond
by the same moreover South Boundary to Tolliver & Viz
East or West running on the Land Game running to Joseph Stanton & his Boundary
on the Easterly side from thence Running South East by a Spring of Water from
the same Course South East to a great old Pine and from there Bounding South
on the Salt Pond Running Westerly to a Pine until it comes to the Westmost
of a Brook to a Rock Marked with two Letters ES with a Rake Standing
By Said Rock
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Rock with Stones a Court from thence Running North Fourteen Degrees
West to the Country Road it’s a Stake with Stones a Court it’s North by the Bounds
on the Country Road Running Easterly from the Last Mentioned Stake by the
Country Road until it comes to the North Line from String Mill Mark
with an Easterly Line By 3 rods the other Part of Land Containing by
Estimation Eighty Acres and a piece of the Same More or less bounded as follows
Viz Beginning at George Babcock’s North West Corner of the Land I Sold
Bat Cock extending Running North East Ten Degrees and a Quarter of a Degree
East Eighty Eight Rods to a Stake with Stones a Court it’s George Babcock’s
South East Corner from thence Running East Eleven degrees and a Quarter
of a Degree North Eighty Eight Rods to a Beech oak Tree Marked on four
Sides it’s Being Bat Cock’s South East Corner from thence Running South East
Degrees to an Elder Tree Three Rods to a Stake with Stones a Court it’s
a Court it’s being of John Line. [illegible] the Seller Owner of the Said Land
from him thence Running Westly in the Country Road One Hundred
and Forty Five Rods to a Stake with Stones a Court it’s from thence Running
North North East Eleven Degrees a Quarter One Hundred & Eighty four
Rods to a Notebook Mark from thence further from thence a Straight Line
to the First Mentioned Corner TO HAVE AND HOLD all the grants and given Land
Enough Privileges and appurtenances thereunto Belonging in the Town of
[illegible]
One Tenancy [illegible] Standing in the Old Road [illegible] and Labor of my
Two Sons Malbrough Stanton & Henry Stanton Their Heirs & Assigns
Forever And my Daughter’s [illegible] Two Fields Land and appurtenances
thereunto Belonging as Quality Given Between my two Sons Malbrough
Stanton & Henry Stanton their Heirs and Assigns In Quantity and also
Quality and if Either of my Two Sons shall Die before They arrive
to the Age of Twenty one years the other that shall be Surviving shall have
the Whole of the in their parts of Land and appurtenances thereunto Belonging
in Confirmation Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal on Tuesday
Day of 17 September in 1751 Year of His Majest Morgan George of Third
King of Great Britain & Ireland One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty
One
Signed Sealed & Delivered
in the Presence of
Stanton York
Mary Stanton
The Deed was Recorded
this 5 day of October
A.D. 1751
Joseph Stanton
Personally appeared the Witness Hans Stanton before Me
& acknowledged the a Fore mentioned Written
Instrument to be his Voluntary Act and Deed Paid
and Seal therefore By Order of said day and Year Written
Written at Greene Stanton York Jp of the Peace
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