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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I John Dixon of Newport in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That I the said John Dixon [illegible] for and in consideration of the sum of
Ninety five hundred dollars in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid by
Hammett Dixon of Lebanon Connecticut in the County of Washington and State aforesaid
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and aforesaid thoroughly fully satisfied and paid, and of thereof and of every part and parcel thereof
desire to absolutely accept and discharge forever the said Hammett Dixon his
heirs, executors and administrators foreverly to those presents; have given granted harboured all said enlarged conveyed effect conveyed and conferred; and
by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell also convey confirm and convey unto Brown the
heirs and assign forever
Hammett Dixon his
a certain tract of land or farm situated in said Lebanon town with a
dwelling house and other buildings thereon consisting dwelling containing one
hundred and forty acres for the same more or less and is bounded on
the West and North by land of Nicholas W. Williams, on the East partly
by Isaacs land and partly by land of Jonathan R. Court, and partly by
land of James M. Morgan, and on the South by the highway and for
a more particular description reference is hereby had to former deeds of
said farm in several in said Charlestown
Revenue Stamps
$2.50
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To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to them the said Hammett Dixon the
heirs and assigns forever to him and these other property except for my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant to and with theforesaid Hammett Dixon his the true sole and lawful owner of the above bargained
premises and premises and forever seized and possessed of the same in good right and good perfect absolute and estate substance of inheritance
in fee simple) and have a good right full power and lawful authority to grant sell convey and confirm the said bargained
premises in manner as aforesaid. And that the said Hammett Dixon s
heirs and assigns shall may and shall from time to time and to time to time foreverly have and desire to virtue of these present lawfully possess and
enjoy the said granted and bargained premises with all the said demised and bargained premises with the appurtenances free solemn and clear free and
quietly acquired encumbered and discharged of and from all and all manner of force or other grants gifts bargains sales mortgages writs
estates journals directives judgments executions and encumbrances of what name or nature whatever that ought to nay anyone or degree abstract or
make void the said grant bargain sale.
Furthermore I the said John Dixon
for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above demised
premises to defend the said Hammett Dixon his
against the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant answer and defend by these presents
And I Frances Dixon witnessing said John Dixon in considerations of
the sum aforesaid do presently release and forever quit claim unto the
said Hammett Dixon his heirs and assigns all my right of Dower
in and to the above granted premises
In Testimony whereof we have present set our hands and
seals this 12th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty one
John Dixon s.s.
Frances Dixon s.s.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us the above named parties at the town of Lebanon Connecticut the 12th day of February 1881
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