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and that my Sea the Sea Joseph Clark his heirs & assigns shall at all times forever Warranty
peaceably possess & enjoy the saids court with the Last Endurence Millitation of the sa
Samuel Clark my heirs or assigns any other persons from or under me or them of that
or any part of him and promise & covenant that none of it is absolute free from any Man or
inconvenience whatever should come or may arise in or may Mayor of Degree absolute or
Mal what void this present Grant & its contents lawfully of have have put into my hand
And seal the seventh Day of May in the 14th year of his Majesties Reign George
the Second King of great Britain Anno Domini 1747 Signed Sealed & delivered
In the presence of
Elias Bailey
Caleb Bateman
Samuel Clark
The Subscriber Samuel Clark appeared in
Columbia in Kings County 20th day
year above written acknowledged and declared the
above consider’d to be the seal to his act and
Deed hand and Seal before Saml Story Justice
So all people to whom these presents shall Shew Give greeting know that James
son of Colletian in Kings County of New York in the Colony of New England and a resident
Plantation in Newport state of Rhode Island [illegible] to me holding forty Acres of land of which
my brother settled in the 18th of July 1694 in the town of Pawtucket and’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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And assigns for ever May have sole occupy Dispose of & enjoy all the above Named parcels
free & Clear of and from any whatso ever claims of inhabitants’s other former or now any heirs executors
& administrators since & Void Null & Void for ever Giving & Making over to my $\text{b}^t$ Robert [illegible]
his heirs & assigns for ever any more lawful Right $\text{t}^l$ title with all the land now in his $\text{p}^s$ of $\text{L}^2$
I gave witness in presence of here of $\text{L}^2$ signed & Sealed this 5th day of May in
the year of our $\text{L}^d$ 1741 and in the $14^{\text{th}}$ year of the reign of His Majesty King George the First
By the grace of God King of great Britain $\text{e}^t$
Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of
[illegible]
John [illegible]
John [illegible]
David C. W. Role
Recorded the above $\text{a}^d$ $2\text{d}$ day of May
of May 1741 $\text{p}^b$ Case
I know all men by these presents That I Samuel Congdon of Providence in the province of
Providence in the colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations In husbandry of the town
of Providence in the said province the son of their humble $\text{p}^s$ [illegible] Current Men
of the said town in the said province of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
In the said County in the said Province of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Given granted bargained & sold full right entered & full amount of any & every piece of land
Free purely freely & absolutely unto Samuel Gorton for self alone enough & to his heirs
$\text{t}^l$ the $\text{p}^s$ in the Common his heirs executors administrators & assigns for ever all that my
whole Right Title & Interest whether legally Title gained in and of one whole parcel of
a lot of land $\text{t}^t$ Tract or piece of land $\text{t}^t$ the whole of Land lying in and near the town of
the same Moore or part of the said land lying in and near the town of Providence
between $\text{L}^2$ King’s road along a bound $\text{t}^t$ $\text{L}^2$ south eastly exactly opposite
Line South westernly for said $\text{L}^2$ and then easterly upon Samuel Gorton’s boundary line the
said Street of East Side was given by my cousin formerly known as [illegible]
my Brother James Congdon the $\text{s}^t$ & only other part of any land given to me
by Gift from under the hand of my $\text{L}^d$ father of my $\text{L}^d$ father [illegible] for the use
& benefit all the above $\text{a}^d$ land $\text{t}^t$ $\text{L}^2$ and all land now lying facing
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