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9/8/1873 · DEED · book 10 page 109 doc 4388

From GAVITT EZEKIEL life, GAVITT JOSEPH C life, GAVITT HANNAH life, GAVITT OLIVER E BY GUARDIAN life, GAVITT LYDIA A BY GUARDIAN life, GAVITT ARMINDA BY GUARDIAN life
To BURDICK FRANK life
Consideration fifty dollars
Premises one acre · one certain tract or piece of land (Charlestown)

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⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

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State of Rhode Island &p Washington ss Before me Benjamin Reason personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument by him desired to be his free and voluntary act and deed. And Eliza P. Reason wife of the said Benjamin Reason, having be- me examined fairly and openly from her own free will hearing and seeingment shown and explaining to her & her dy her signed, declared this deed to be her free act and deed from person which she did not wish to retract. Charles Coxon Town Clerk Received for Record June 13th 1843 at N. office P. M. and Recorded by Charles Coxon Town Clerk Know all men to whom these presents may concern that we Hannah Sprite widow of Joseph Sprite deceased, Elizabeth Sprite Joseph G. Sprite's & Hannah Sprite Sprite Guardians to and for Clara E. Sprite Lydia A. Sprite & Arminda Sprite all of the town of Westerly County of Washington, State of Rhode Island and Parcelled of Naturalization, for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars paid us by Frank Burdick of the town of Washington in said County aforesaid, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge by these presents to give, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Frank Burdick to him his heirs and assigns forever, one certain tract or piece of land lying and being in the town of Charlestown in said County aforesaid containing one acre reserving the right of passing across said lot with horses and otherwise to us our heirs and assigns forever, butted and bounded as follows (viz) beginning at the South East corner of said lot of a shrub on the ground thence Westerly by the boundary to land of Sprites thence Northerly bounded Westerly on Sprites land to make one acre, thence Easterly to and Fartherly on Sprites land to the first mentioned boundary To have and to hold the above described premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the said Frank Burdick to him his heirs forever And we the Signatories for ourselves our heirs executors and administrators do covenant unto the aforesaid Frank Burdick that we have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid and that we will defend the same to the said Frank Burdick his heirs and assigns forever against all claim right or under us In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
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110 and sent this 16th day of June A.D. 1873 Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Hannah Gavitt L.S. Ezekiel Gavitt L.S. Joseph C. Gavitt L.S. Oliver E Gavitt L.S. Lucinda A Gavitt L.S. Herminda Gavitt L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington ss Westesterly June 21st 1873 Personally appeared Hannah Gavitt, Ezekiel Gavitt, Joseph C. Gavitt, Hannah Gavitt Gavitt and to Oliver E Gavitt Lucinda A Gavitt, Herminda Gavitt signers of the foregoing deed and acknowledged that they done the same free voluntarily and did seal hand and seal - before me - Bradford Pelton Bradford Pelton Justice of the Peace Town of Westerly Received for Record 21st 1873 at 11 o'clock A.M. and Recorded by Charles Coxe Town Clerk Know all men by these presents, that we Geo. Kingsley and Jane P. Kingsley's Joseph A. Williams and Lucinda M. Williams, Fannie R. Aye & Caroline Aye, Caleb B. Aye and Sarah B. Aye, Leonard Pearson & Catherine Weaver & Ethan J. Cox, heirs at law of William Cox, late of Charlestown Rhode Island, for and in consideration of some of signed debted amounts, to be paid by William E Cox of said Charlestown, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge as same released, released and forever quitclaimed, unto the said or some releasees and forever quitclaimed unto the said and we remise and reserve heirs and assigns forever now and for ever all the right titles interests property claim and demand whether the one half, or one eighth share or claim in and to all the real estate buildings improvements and tenements which belonged to the said William Cox of Charlestown at the time of his decease of every name nature and whatever thisone may be the detailed reference to for more deeds and records being had for boundaries and description of the same) reserving however for the use of the family one quarter of an acre where the burial ground is situated on, the forementioned mists a right of way to and from the same at all times to drive and or lead the same, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereof or thereunto appertaining, to the said

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