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3/28/1870 · DEED · book 9 page 402 doc 4253

From KELLY SARAH A life, KELLY HENRY M life, CHURCH ASA N BY GUARDIAN life
To CHURCH ALBERT life
Consideration Seven hundred and eighty nine dollars ninety cents dollars and thirty cents
Premises 43 acres 144 perches 3 rods and 55 3/4 acres · Two lots of land and one mill (Charlestown, Story's Field)

Back — where this land came from

probate Asa Cobb
“minor heir of Asa Cobb late of said Charlestown, deceased”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1867 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE W → KELLY SARAH A; VARS HARRIET N; WARD GEORGE H; WARD JAMES L; WARD RICHA · book 9 p 226

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1870 · DEED · CHURCH ELIZABETH N; CHURCH ALBERT → CARD WILLIAM H · book 9 p 400
▶ 1878 · DEED · CHURCH ELIZABETH N; CHURCH ALBERT → HOXSIE GEORGE W; HOXSIE ALBERT F · book 10 p 385
▶ 1894 · DEED · CHURCH ALBERT; CHURCH HANNAH E → CHURCH ASA · book 13 p 17

Bounded by

Rufus R Newberry · Samuel Spencer · Edward J R Williams · George Atwater · Joseph R Noffcutt

The instrument's own words

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402 Revenue Stamp 8100 Whereas the Grant of Probate of the last Will and testament of the late [illegible] by their decree passed February 15th 1870, authorized George W Ward, Guardian of the Real Estate of Nathan H Cobb, minor heir of Asa Cobb late of said Charlestown, deceased to sell all public auction the Real Estate of said Nathan H Cobb, Now therefore Know all men that I the said George W Ward, Guardian as aforesaid, by the authority aforesaid, and for and in consideration of the sum of Seven hundred and eighty nine dollars ninety three cents and ten cents paid by all Church of said Charlestown, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, the said Albert Church of said Charlestown, being the highest bidder in public auction Sale duly notified and held on the premises on the 15th day of March 1870 do hereby in my capacity of Guardian as aforesaid bargain sell and convey unto the said Albert Church his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and interest of the said Nathan H Cobb in and to the following described Real Estate, at the town of said Charlestown, to wit: one lot of land con- taining forty three acres, one hundred and forty four and three rods and bounded as follows, beginning at a white oak stump at the North west corner of said lot thence south 17 1/2 East 17 chains 18 links to a stake and stone near the crossing of a wool bounding roadway land of the said Asa Cobb deceased, thence south 11 1/2 West 21 chains 39 links to the highway bounding Eastly on land of Richard P Rogers, thence south 86 1/2 West 24 rods to a fence bounding South land of [illegible] thence north 86 1/2 West 24 rods to a fence bounding South land of [illegible] thence north one chain westerly by said fence thence to the place of beginning Also one lot containing fifty five and three quarter acres to be the same more or less bounded North by the highway bounding North Eastly on said lot by the highway then running South Eastly bounding North Eastly on said highway till it comes to fence of Samuel George, thence South Eastly bounding Eastly on said George's land to land of Edward J B Windmill Vanes North bounding South Eastly on said Windmill's land till it comes to the Story's Field (so called) thence by said field it comes to land of George Atwater thence North Eastly bounding Windmill's property on said Atwater's land and partly on land of Joseph N Potter to the place of beginning And also one mill and one lot of land to wit a right of way land of said Albert Church his heirs and assigns forever quit claim with the said Albert Church his heirs and assigns forever all the right of enjoyment in the said road A formerly known as the road from Charlestown deceased And it is understood and a covenant of this deed that one quarter of an acre of land where on the barrel’s are now located in the first described lot which is not included in the measure of said lot shall be reserved for the use of the barrel’s with a right of way to and from the store from the store the remaining part of the Barrel and the wood provided for her use the last Will and testament of the deceased I reserve and not to hold the same to the said Albert Church his heirs and assigns forever we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty fourth day of March 1870
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