12/31/1871 · DEED · book 9 page 151 doc 4070

To all People to whom these Presents shall Come, Know Ye, That I the said Oliver L Clarke of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island do grant bargain and sell unto the said Oliver L Clarke for and in consideration of the sum of five dollars in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid and by the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and certify well and sufficiently contented and paid; and of every part of and every part of thereof do execute and acknowledge and declare the said William Cross his heirs, executors and administrators forever by these presents have granted bargained and sold aliened conveyed and confirmed unto the said by these presents to fully levy seise and absolutely have forever great bargain and sale off all estate convey and confirm unto their heirs and assign forever A certain lot of land situated in said town of Charlestown containing one acre more or less bounded and described as follows: beginning at the Northeast corner of the Lot newly surveyed and the Southeast corner of the Land now owned by said Simon Cross running westerly bounding southerly by the boundary line between this Parcel and the adjacent Lot newly surveyed Northwesterly by the last mentioned line at right angles with the last mentioned line at right angles with the last mentioned line Northwesterly by the land of said Simon Thence Northerly bounding Easterly by said Simon's land to the the line of boundary Possession of said premises be presumed to be given on the first day of April 1792 and the said Simon is to make and forever maintain all the fences between the boundaries of the lot hereby conveyed and the adjoining land of the grantor To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to it the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Oliver L Clarke his heirs and assigns forever To be then only proper for his benefit and behoof forever. And I the said Grantor for myself my heirs executors and administrators do covenant promise and grant to and with the said Grantee his heirs and assigns that at any time before the executing hereof I have the true sole and lawful owner of the above bargained premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right and a perfect good and absolute shortage of inheritance in the simple and have in my own proper right full power full right and forever authority to grant sell convey and confirm the said bargained premises unto the said Grantee his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever lawfully be forever by virtue of this deed these premises lawfully and quietly hold occupy use possess enjoy and enjoy the said bargained and granted premises with the appurtenances free clear and free from any claim or demand of any person or persons whomsoever of future other or other great bargain and sale of any nature whatsoever with all estates jointures doweries judgments executions and conveyances of what nature or of what nature in every manner or degree absolute or or make void this present deed. Furthermore I the said Grantor his heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above demised premises to the said Grantee his heirs and assigns the rightful claim of demands or any person whomsoever forever to secure demand and be free from their heirs and assigns And I Anna B Clarke wife of the said Oliver L Clarke in consideration of the sum aforesaid as aforesaid do hereby release my free privileges unless the said Grantee his heirs and assigns all my right of Dower in and to the above named premises In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and seals this Twenty second day of July eighteen hundred and twenty one Oliver L Clarke Anna B L Clarke Witnessed Oliver L Clarke William Cross J R Remington