1/13/1755 · DEED · book 1 page 308 doc 13802

308 To all people to whom these presents shall come— I Polly Cooff of Charlestown in the county of Kings County and City of Providence Rhode Island Yeoman do make known that she the said Polly Cooff for and Consideration of the Sum of Three hundred and Eleven pounds for the thing current money of Vendling to me in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid by William Clark and Joshua Clark both inhabitants of the said city and by them so paid and delivered the receipt hereof I do hereby acknowledge and my daughter I will fully satisfied contented and paid and hers and of my heirs forever hereafter do covenant agree and Discharge the in the said William Clark and Joshua Clark their executors and administrators forever by this present Indenture grant bargained and sold conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do grant convey fully and Absolutely unto the said William and Joshua Clark their heirs and assigns forever a Certain Tenement or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the town of Charlestown County of Kings by Estimation fully being the same size or bounded as Follows Beginning at the West W. Corner of a Stone wall and runs a little to the close in a swamp and to the N. E Corner of Jonathan Arnold land from thence running N. W by Degree East until it comes through the swamp to the uplands thence throughout Northerly by a spruce pole it runs to the stone mark on the line side from thence running North East by Degree North until it comes to a pine tree in the South mark on the line of some [illegible] until it comes to William Clark land all to be held until it comes to a Stone bound on the line 10 Degrees East by said Clark land until it comes to a stake by a Corn field the said Corner south from thence running South until it comes to a Red stake marked on the line until it comes to a Black horse tree marked on the Red stake running by straight line fast of Jonathan Franklin thence along hedge about 8 poles to the North East until it comes upon the said fence into land until it comes to the first mentioned corner. To have & to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the Appurtenances privileges land and commonite to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to them the said William Clark and Joshua Clark their their Heirs and Assigns forever to them and their Heirs and by my proper Benefits and Behoof forever and I say That they Copy set my Soft my Heirs Executors and administrators Governor and servants and by these presents do warrant the said William and Joshua Clark their Heirs and Assigns that at any time before the sealing hereof I am the true sole and lawful Owner of the above bargained premises and am Lawfully seised and possessed of the same in my own proper right as a good property and Absolute Estate of the heritage in too Simple and have in my self full right full power and lawfull Authority to grant bargain sell convey and alien from the said bargained premises in Manner as above said And that the said William and Joshua Clark they and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may from hence forward and all times forever hereafter be free and clear of all those debts and [illegible]

389 quietly peaceably, and quietly have held in fee simple possess and Enjoy the said demize and bargain’d [illegible] with all its Appurtenances, free and Clear and Free ley and hereby executed Conveyed and Discharged of and from all and all manner of former in other High grants Bargains Sales leases mortgages Wills Entails Dowries Dowries doweries Declarations or Incumbrances of what Name or Nature soever that might in any measure or Degree Obstruct or make void the Present Indenture Furthermore I the said Peter say for my self my Heirs Executors and Administrators do Covenant and Engage that the Above Demised premises to him the said William Fortune and his Heirs their and Heirs against the lawful Title Claim or Demand of any person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant secure and Defend by his person and warranty And that the wife of me the said Peter say doth by this deed and Witness signed up and surrender all her rights to Dower & Power of third part in and to the Above Bargained Premises unto the said William Fortune and his Heirs their Heirs and Assigns forever in Witness hereof we have set our hands and affixed our seals this Twenty ninth Day of April in the Twenty seventh Year of his Majestie Reign George the Second King of Great Britain etc Anno Domini one Thousand seven hundred and fifty four Signed Sealed and Delivered (King’s County Ct. In presence of us. James Congdon Robert Potter Personally appeared the substrily [illegible] this Day and being duly sworn did state in my Presence that she had read and signed the above Instrument to be her Act and Deed Land & seal hereunto affixed Before me Robert Potter Justice The above and foregoing Instrument Was Recorded this 13th Day of January 1755 by Robt Potter Town Clerk