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I the said Joseph H. Thrasher do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel N. Cross Commissioner
of said Corporation or his successors or successors in office during my office time my true and lawfully attorney endowed
with full power of substitution & resuscitation at any time after said note & promissory thereof
said he have here due & payable unpaid for the space of ten days in my name or in
his or his successors to sell said premises at public auction first giving notice thereof
for at least three weeks in some newspaper of said state and after such sale shall make
my name or in the name of his successors execute a good & sufficient deed to sell
premises with the usual covenants of Warranty to be as act in the purchase or purchasers
as wrote in off simple for the premises and any collect and receive the purchase money
and after having all the costs and expenses of said sale and the said notes and interest
to him paying me the residue of any to me or to my heirs or assigns hereby ratifying and
confirming all things lawfully done by my said Attorney or attorneys for the purposes aforesaid
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of May AD 1865
In presence
Samuel N. Cross
Joseph H. Thrasher L.S.
State of Rhode Island or
County of Providence
Washington dc
May 1st 1865
The forenamed appeared Joseph H. Thrasher do acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by him signed & sealed and sealed to be the free act and deed
Before me Samuel N. Cross Town Clerk
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$2.00
Recorded for Deed Book 9 K 1865
at 1 o'clock A.M. and Recorded by Obadiah Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I James L. Ward of Wickford
County of Washington in said state of Rhode Island and state of Rhode Island downward dwelling
to said James L. Ward Society of East March merchants in the town of said State of the receipt
witnessing which I hereby acknowledge have given granted bargained and sold and hereby grant
convey all convenient confirm unto the said Peter Potter his heirs forever a certain tract
of land lying in Christianson in a street known as cultivation by extending north east to the
sea more or less or with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing and to bound as followsly
with Peter Potter and boundaries on East side on boundary of Christian Hill and bounded on south boundary
with Peter Potter and boundaries on North boundary on the sea boundary and to bound
the same with the rights privileges and appurtenances thereof to him to his heirs and assigns forever
And the grants for himself his successors his heirs executors & administrators do covenant grant and agree with the
grantee and his heirs forever execute administrators and any assigning that the said tract of land to the
and several parcels of the dominated premises conveyed and agreed pressed in honor of the right on the graphite
and with good right lawfully possessed to hold and convey the same in manner such that the grantee
in some and assigns design right and may at all times forever by peace have and enjoy the quiet and peaceful
enjoyment of said premises forever and free of all other title grants sales commitments and on that the
grantor his heirs executors and administrators the aforesaid premises to the said grantee his heirs and assigns
quietly The lawful claims and demands of all persons to the said state however warrant secure and
against signed sealed and delivered on the 15th day of July AD 1865 L.S.
In presence
Louis L. Currie
Joseph H. Thrasher
Washington sc Certification July 15th 1865 Personally came before me James
Joseph H. Thrasher L. Ward and acknowledged the preceding instrument by him signed to be his
free and voluntary act Joseph H. Thrasher Justice of the Peace
Recorded for Deed Book 11 L 1865 at 1 o'clock P.M. the undersigned Obadiah Cross Town Clerk
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