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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Jonas Al a [illegible] of East Greenwich in the County of Kent
and State of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That I the said Thomas R Rice sr
for and in consideration of the sum of
one dollar
in hand before the execution hereof well and truly paid by
Morley [illegible] of [illegible] in the County [illegible]
the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge and with the fullest satisfaction completely paid and performed of and every part and parcel
thereof execute and discharge the said Thomas R Rice sr
herein, executors and administrators forever by these presents; have given granted sold assigned conveyed and confirmed and
by these presents do freely and absolutely give grant sell convey and confirm unto
the said
heirs and assigns forever
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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 the said [illegible]
for [illegible] properly her benefit and behoof forever. And I the said
[illegible] my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant to and with the said [illegible] and their heirs the enclosing forever I the true sole and lawful owner of the above described premises and premises possessed of and possessed of the same in my own proper right a good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance
is free and simple in my [illegible] And that I have good right full power and liberty authority to grant sell convey and confirm the said granted
premises unto the said [illegible]
heirs and assigns my and from time to time and at all times now forever by virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably and
quietly have and occupy use possess enjoy and the said denied and bargained premises with the appurtenances there free and cleary and
quietly occupied exempted and discharged of and from all maner of and manner of other or give grants rents leases mortgages with
all other [illegible] executions and encumbrances of what nature or manner whatsoever shall in any manner or degree obstruct
or make void this present deed.
Furthermore I the said [illegible]
heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above denied
premises to the said [illegible]
heirs and assigns
against the claims demands or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant secure and defend by these presents.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
[illegible] day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
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Thos A. Pierce Jr. L. S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Kent
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in East Greenwich
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Recorded for record free 1st Nov 1848 at 12 o'clock the [illegible] Public
and entered a Service of [illegible] Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I Brown Mattson of Hopkinton in the
County of Washington state of Rhode Island select for and in consideration of the summing
firstly forty dollars ($40.00) to me paid by foran Troake of Charlestown in said county
of Washington the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have remised released and
forever quit claimed and by these presents do remise release and forever quit claim
the said foran Troake his heirs and assigns forever all my right title and interest
property estate and claim of all right or rightware to bear or obtain in
and to a certain lot of land with all the improvements thereon situated in
Charlestown aforesaid extending one acre by allotment be the same area or less and
bounded as follows to wit commencing at the Northerly corner of said lot by the
highway thence running southeasterly on the boundary of the grantees a stone and stone
boundary on said granite boundary line to a boundary stone in the wall thence southeasterly on
said wall to granite boundary line to a boundary stone in the wall further southeasterly on
said wall to the corner of the first aforementioned said the said lot his heirs and assigns
forever at his their ever last will and testament or their heirs forever from this date a grant and sell
forever [illegible] stone boundary wall between said lot and the lands of the Granter and shall forever
more join the same
To have and to hold the same with all the right privileges
and appurtenances thereon or thereunto appertaining to the same the said foran Troake
his heirs and assigns forever and after the aforesaid Brown Mattson released for
myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the
said foran Troake his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend
the above described premises to the said foran Troake his heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims state and demands of all persons claiming by through me
more And I Mary Mattson wife of said Brown Mattson in consideration of said
sum said my said husband do hereby remise release and forever quit claim
to said foran Troake his heirs and assigns forever all my right of dower
in and to the granted premises In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seal this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty eight (1868) the write and forer quit claimed
signed first attested
Signed sealed and delivered
In presence of
Geo. H. Olney
Mary A. Mattson
Brown Mattson LS
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Mary Mattson LS
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State of Rhode Island seland ye
Washington be
[illegible] In Hopkinton this twenty ninth day of August
AD 1868 Brown Mattson personally appeared before me and acknowledged the
within instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed
Geo. H. Olney Public Notary
Received for Record August 31st 1868 and recorded
by Charles Cross Town Clerk