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Rehoboth town R.D. [illegible]
Washington DC September 13th 1875. Then personally
appeared Joseph Th. Babcock and acknowledged the
within instrument by him signed and sealed to be his
voluntary act and deed heard and seal
Before me George G. Gorham
State Senator
Received for record January 17th 1876 at 7 oclock P.M.
and recorded by Lohal Lorres Town Clerk
This indenture made and executed on this seventh
day of February 1876. By and between Henry G
slied of Rehoboth town in the County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island, Ward and Amos P. Green
of said Rehoboth town Witnesseth that the said Henry
do lease both by these presents lease and let to said
A. P. Green his store situated near narrow mills in
said Rehoboth town including all the rooms in said building
above the basement together with the ice box and stove
now used in said building together with two stalls
in the barn on the East end of said barn, said Card
agrees to replace the counters, shelves and drawers, in
said store also the bar counter as they formerly were
also the privilege to erect partitions in the hall, and
to remove the same, at pleasure, making good all
damage done there by and to rent the whole of the
same to him the said Amos P. Green his heirs and assigns
for and during the term of one year from the first
day of March 1876.
And the said Amos P. Green on his
part doth hereby agree to pay to said Henry G. lease
his heirs executors administrators or as signs as rent for
said premises for said term of one year the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars to be paid in
installments as follows one fourth part thereof at the
end of three months from said first day of March
1876 and one fourth part thereof at the end of every
three months thereafter during said term, And
the said Green further agrees that he will not
sell or suffer to be sold any intoxicating liquors
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on said premises during said term, And at
the expiration of this lease, will on the first day of
March 1877 to yield up peaceable and quiet poss-
ession of said premises to said Henry G. Gard
or to his legal representatives.
In witness whereof the said parties have
hereunto set their hands and seals the day
and year first above written.
In presence of
Charles Cross Henry G. Gard L.S.
A. J. Greene L.S.
Received for record Feb 7th 1876
at 12 o'clock P.M. and recorded by
Charles Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I
George W. Colvin total of Cohasset town in the County
of Washington State of Rhode Island and for and in
consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to
me paid by Mary E. Davis wife of George F. Davis of
Richmond in the County I state aforesaid the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have remised, released
and forever quitclaimed, and by these presents do
remise, release and forever quitclaim, waive unto the
said Mary E. Davis her heirs and assigns forever,
all the right title interest property claim and
demand, which I now have, or of right ought to
have, or claim, in and to a certain tract of land
situated in said Cohasset town with a dwelling
house thereon standing, bounded Northerly by a
highway, Easterly partly by land of Jason A. Green
partly by land of Stephen Blake and partly by
land of John S. Browning, or Southing stock from
town line, South by land of said Stephen Blake
& partly West by lands of Hampton Johnson, and Jason
P. Green and Henry G. Gard or however otherwise the
same may be bounded containing by estimation fifty
acres by the same more or less.
So have and to hold the same with all the
rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto
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