The instrument's own words
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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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appertaining to her the said Mary E Davis her heirs
and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned George
W Holburton for myself and for my heirs executors
and administrators do covenant with the said Mary
E Davis her heirs and assigns, that I will warrant
and defend the aforesaid premises to the said
Mary E Davis her heirs and assigns forever against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming
by through or under me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twelfth day of February in
the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
and seventy six
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of George W Holburton L.S.
Charles Cross
Martha B Cross
State of Rhode Island &c
Washington S.c In Charlestown in said
County, on this twelfth day of February A.D. 1876
the above named George W Holburton personally
appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing
instrument, by him signed to be his free and voluntary
act and deed
Charles Cross
Justice of the Peace
Received for record Feb 12th 1876
at 5 o'clock P M, and recorded
by Chas Cross Town Clerk