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To all people to whom these presents shall come
Send Greeting. Whereas an execution against
Sorengo D. Gavitt at the suit of William S. Gavitt was
by me the said Chas H. Chapman on the twentieth day
of January 1876 at 8 o clock P.M. levied on a certain tract of land
with the improvements thereon; situate in the town of Fidelity &
Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode
Island containing by estimation one hundred acres more
or less and bounded Easterly on lands of heirs of Nathan
Stanley and land of John G. Nichols, Northerly on lands of heirs of
Nathan Taylor, westerly by road of Davis and common
lot and Southerly by the salt marsh, or however otherwise
bounded or reputed to be bounded, attached on the original
writ on the twenty third day of August 1872 at 8 o clock P.M.
and whereas on the second day of May 1876 all the state,
right, title, interest & property of the said Sorengo D. Gavitt
in the premises aforesaid was by me the said Chas H.
Chapman sold at public auction for the satisfaction of the
said execution, to William S. Gavitt who was the highest
bidder, for the sum of four hundred dollars and fifty cents
which the said William S. Gavitt hath since sold and
surely paid to me the said Chas H. Chapman, Now Know
all men by that force and virtue of the law in such case made
and provided, this I the said Chas H. Chapman, in consideration
of the sum of money paid unto me as aforesaid, do by these
presents bargain sell assign and set over unto the said
William S. Gavitt his heirs and assigns forever all the
state right, title, interest, property, freehold, and in inheritance
of the said Sorengo D. Gavitt in and to the said premises
and appurtenances to the at the time of the attachment on the
original writ. To have and to hold the said premises
and appurtenances to the said William S. Gavitt his
heirs and assigns forever.
On witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this second day of May AD 1876.
Chas H. Chapman S.D.
Deputy Sheriff of W.
Washington Ro S.
State of Rhode Island & S.
in Washington Co S. On Monday in said county on this fourth
day of May AD 1876, then personally appeared the above
named Chas H. Chapman a Deputy Sheriff of said County
of Washington and in his said capacity acknowledged the above
instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act & deed
Before me Thos H. Peabody Notary Public
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