FromWILLCOX PHEBE M ToMARTIN ELIZABETHlife Consideration Seven hundred and fifty dollars Premises ten dwelling orchards on or there more acres · lot or parcel of land with dwelling house (Cornish Hill, Charlestown)
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Know all men by these presents that I Phebe M. Willey of the town
of Charlestown County of Washington and state of Rhode Island for and
consideration of the sum of Seven hundred and fifty dollars to me paid by Elizabeth
Matson of the town of Charlestown County and after the aforesaid the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge have promised released and forever quitclaimed unto her the
said Elizabeth Matson her heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest
property claim and demand which more here or of what right way to have or claim or in
to a certain lot or parcel of land situate in said dwelling house therefore situated in the village of
Cornish Hill said town hundred and described as following to wit Northesterly by lands of Phebe
Robert Morgan deceased Southwesterly by lands of Phebe Northwesterly by lands of Richard Vaughan
Northeasterly by lands of John M. Willey and others whereas the same had been formerly
containing ten dwelling orchards on or there more acres
To have and to hold the same with all the right privileges appurtenances
thereof in therefore or appertaining to the said Elizabeth Matson her heirs and assigns
forever And I then aforementioned Phebe M. Willey for myself and for my heirs
executors and administrators do covenant the same in the said Elizabeth Matson her heirs and
assigns that I will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises to her the said
Elizabeth Matson her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands
of all persons claiming by title or otherwise me [illegible]
$750
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of October
in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Franklin S. Brown
M. S. Greene
Phebe M. Willey L.S.
Washington- In Charlestown in said County on this twentieth
of October 1820 then personally appeared Phebe M. Willey subscriber
to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be her act writing act
and deed
Before me
Miller S. Greene
Public Notary
Entered for Deed October 15th 1820 at 11 o'clock A.M.
and Recorded by Charles Cross
Your Clerk
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