The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Bethlehem Webster of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye That I the aforesaid Bethlehem Webster
three hundred dollars
for and in consideration of the sum of
in hand before the ensuing witness hereby well and truly paid by
Charles Webster of Charlestown aforesaid
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and say thereby fully satisfied contracted and paid; and of there of every part and parcel
thereof do execute release acquit and discharge
the said Charles Webster his
heirs, executors and administrators forever thus have given granted assigned also conveyed conveyed and confirmed; and
by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell and forever convey and confirm unto
Charles Webster his
heirs and assigns forever
a certain lot of land situate in said Charlestown containing by
estimation fourteen acres more or less with a dwelling house and other
buildings thereon standing, bounded Northerly by land of Stephen
Johnson bounded Easterly by land of Stephen Stark Southerly by land
of William He Hard and Jonas Moore Westerly of a highway,
or however otherwise the same may be bounded.
To have and to hold the said grant and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to
the said Charles Webster his
heirs and assigns forever to
his heirs and assigns forever to
his heirs and assigns forever to
do covenant promise and grant to and with the said
Charles Webster his
heirs and assigns that if after this present date any person or persons shall claim or pretend to be the true sale and lawful owner of the above bargained
premises and more, lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right as a good perfect and absolute state of inheritance
in fee simple and free; I have and maintain good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell and forever confirm the said bargained
premises in manner as aforesaid and that the said
Charles Webster his
heirs and assigns shall and may quietly occupy possess and enjoy the said bargained and premises with the appurtenances free and clear and freely and
quietly have occupied seized and discharged of and from all or some of manner of former or other grants leases mortgages grants sales
or any other thing or things whatsoever and that I will and shall warrant to the said Charles Webster his heirs against all such claims or
make or provide this deed present truth the honest promise as aforesaid a forever pleaase.
Furthermore the said
Bethlehem Webster
his heirs executors and administrators do convey and agree the above mentioned
premises to
the said
Charles Webster his
heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatever for the warranty soon and defend by these presents.
And I Priscilla Webster wife of the Grantor in consideration
of the sum paid as aforesaid do hereby release and forever quitclaim all my right of dower in and to the
above granted premises.
the Conditions of this deed is specified that ensuing that I the said Bethlehem
Webster have executed my presentable promissory note for the sum of
three hundred dollars dated event date herewith and made payable
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478 to the said Charles Holden or order three easy after date with interest at
the rate of eight per cent per annum, the interest to be paid annually,
on the 1st day of March in each year.
Now Therefore, if any of the said Grantor or my Heirs Executor, Administrator
or Assignee, or any other person for me or for them shall fail paid note at
regularity together with the interest thereon according to the tenor thereof
this Deed shall be void and voidance shall be and become on full force and
effect.
Furthermore I the said grantor do hereby constitute and appoint the
said grantee his Executed Administrator and Assignee my Attorneys
irrevocable with full power of substitution and revocation for me and
in my name or in the name of my heirs at any time in case default shall
be made in the payment of my said note or of the annual interest due
thereon or breach shall be made of the covenants of insurance hereafter com-
mitted and such default or breach shall continue for the term of ten days
to sell at public auction the premises aforesaid, or any part thereof that first
giving over the expiration of said term of ten days, hereby gives notice of such
sale in one or more of the following newspapers published in State namely and
more in the name or in the name of my heirs to make execute seal acknowledge and
deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof any Deed or Deeds that may be
necessary to put such person or purchasers then in a full and absolute Estate in fee
simple thereon, and no act hereby granting any such my Attorneys power
to continue or adjourn said sale term time I do authorize the said
Attorneys to receive the amount the same may be sold for, and after the payment
of all the expenses incurred to such sale or sales to apply and appropriate that
residue thereof to the payment of the principal of said note and interest of
not being secured I hereby agreeing that no act of a sale for default in the
payment of said annual interest or for breach of said Covenant of Insurance
the principal of my said note shall be deemed due and payable on the day of
such sale according to me or my Heirs and Assignee shall sum over one hundred
above the amount thereof I hereby ratifying approving and confirming such sale
or sales as may be made or caused to be made by the parties hereunto.
Furthermore I the said grantor for myself and for my Heirs Executor Administrator
and Assignee do hereby covenant warrant the said Grantee his Assigns that
Insurance against fire for said house shall be kept and maintained whereas the buildings
on the premises aforesaid are in sum put not less than one hundred dollars and that the
said Grantee shall have such Insurance assigned and transferred to the said grantor
his heirs and assigns as collateral security held in and endorfed thereof hereby agree
that the said grantor his heirs or assigns may effect such Insurance and the Furthermore
or premises provided their shall be a further lien upon the said Note added to the
amount of said note and secured by these Presents. On Saturday the fifth day of March in the year of our
lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy two
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
Charles Moore
William H. Webster
Bethlehem Moore
Adelaide P. Webster
(Seal) (Seal)
State of Rhode Island sc
In Providence this 15th day of March 1872
Bethlehem Moore personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing
ment by him signed separate to be his own act and voluntary act and deed
Charles Cross Town Clerk
Received for Record March 26 1872 at 7 oclock PM
and returned by Charles Cross L Clerk
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