The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
J. Bruster & Merchant of Charlestown in the County of
Washington State of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That the said Bruster & Merchant
One Hundred & Fifty Dollars
for and in consideration of the sum of
in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid by
Joseph Stanton of said Charlestown
the receipt whereof As by hereby acknowledge and confessed paid and satisfied true and entirely of every part and parcel and part
thereof the premises acquitted and discharge For the said Bruster & Merchant
heirs, executors and administrators shall have for themselves their heirs presents given grant bargained sold alienated conveyed and conveyed; and
by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell aliense convey confirm and convey unto
the said
Joseph Stanton his
heirs and assigns forever
A certain tract of Land lying in said Charlestown
containing by estimation Eleven acres more or less the same more
or less bounded as follows: easternly at the Northeast
cornerly said lot on the highway and at one corner to
Lot belonging to the heirs of Joseph Rhodes thereon bounding
southerly by the [illegible] via a walkway straight by the
side of said highway thence southerly Masters boundaries
southerly partly by land of Christopher M Merchant and
partly by Deeds formerly owned Joseph & Burgess tails till
of Stephen's lands & Summer Rathbone at which of stones
by the side of a wall thence Northerly bounding initially
on said Wallstone Land to the heirs of Joseph Rhodes thence westerly
bounding partly by said road work & partly by said Michaels
land to the place of beginning.
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 the
said Planter his
heirs and assigns forever to hers and their proper use property right and behoof forever. And I the said
Grantor
by myself right
my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant to with the said Grantee their
heirs and assigns that at all times hereafter they shall have
premises in peace and free from all lawful claims and demands of any other person part good and perfect absolute and entire inheritance
in fee simple and free and clear in good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell once convey and confirm the said bargained
premises in promise as aforesaid. And that the said
heirs and assigns shall and may have and enjoy the said granted and bargained premises by force and virtue of these presents lawfully and
quietly have and hold and forever enjoy the said denied and granted premises with the appurtenances free from all and clear freely and
quietly acquitted discharged and exempted of and from all and all manner of for or other grants bargain sales lease mortgages wills
estates contracts jointures dowers judgments executions and encumbrances of what name or nature so ever matter or nature so ever degree or abstract
or estate void null void the same forever.
Furthermore I the said Grantor
by myself right
my heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above denied
premises to
the said Grantee his
heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant secure and defend by these presents.
And I Mary Ann Michel wife of said grantor in
consideration of the same sum aforesaid do hereby release
and forever quitclaim unto the said Grantee his heirs and assigns
forever all my right title of dower in and to the foreground
premises.
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands & sealed this 26 day of January Eighteen Hundred &
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Desired C. Macomber L.S.
[illegible] M. Mitchell L.S.
State of Rhode Island
in Providence county this 26 day of Jan 1807
before me and Isaac Mitchell personally appeared Ally
acknowledged the within instrument to be his act and deed
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Recorded for fees 1rm 170 ct [illegible] [illegible] by 6 am at the
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Know all men by these presents that I Ally A Macomber westerly
county of Providence and state of Rhode Island bound by my consideration of
the sum of three hundred dollars to me paid by John P. Macomber of the
same town, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby remise,
release and forever quitclaim unto the said John P. Macomber his
heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest claim and demand
whichsoever I have in and unto two separate lots of land lying in
Charlestown said county and State the first is bounded on the North
by land of B. G. Mitchell and lands of George Pe and Thomas Sherman
commencing at a stake in the swamp fence north of the house on the East
by land of [illegible] Black on the South and East by land of the heirs of
Samuel Sheffield and the road until it comes to a stone heap under three
wall, east of George P. Sherman's house then a pole north course
to a nail in the wall the North line of the lot then Northly to the first mentioned
bound or stake the second lot is bounded on the North by land of
one [illegible] slope in the hay then west Northly to the first mentioned
bound or stake on the South by lands of Margaret & Thomas P. Macomber and
on the West by land lying in the [illegible] of Ally A Macomber stated or however otherwise
said land lying be bounded on the East by a part of the homestead farm
of the late Joseph Macomber deceased)
To Have and to hold the same to him the said John P. Macom
omber his heirs and assigns forever
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and Seal
this 21 day of May 1865
For presence of
Frances Macomber
William P. Cog [illegible] [illegible]
Ally A Macomber L.S.
State of Rhode Island ss
Washington county ss
On the 21st day of May 1865, personally appeared Ally
A Macomber subscriber to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged
the same to be her free and voluntary act and deed
Before me
William P. Cog P. Public Notary
Received for Primes July 28th 1866
at 11 o'clock A.M. and Recorded by
Charles Cross Second Clerk