The instrument's own words
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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