6/5/1877 · AGREEMENT · book 10 page 340 doc 4532

340 This contract made this 20th day of June 1876 by and between Oliver Davis of Wickford of the first part and Stephen Polkhase of Charlestown of the second part. Witnesseth that the said Oliver Davis of the first part agrees that for the sum of four dollars to be paid on the beginning of this contract, and one dollar paid yearly afterwards, the said Davis will obtain said Polkhase to build a house upon the East end of High Bank to be called in convenient Beach and move owned by said Oliver Davis Oliver Davis Witnesses Oliver S. Polkhase John S. Potter Wm F. Polkhase Received for Record June 8th 1876 at 3 oclock P.M and Recorded by Charles Cross Town Clerk Know all men now that I Charles Cross of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island Administrator on the Estate of John Nuttingway, late of said Charlestown deceased, by virtue of authority vested and me by the Court of Probate for said town of Charlestown, and for and in consideration of the sum of thirteen hundred and forty to me paid by the said Phebe A. Nuttingway of Charlestown aforesaid, the highest bidder at a Public sale entered by the said Court convened on the twentieth day of March AD 1887 the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby in my said capacity grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Phebe A. Nuttingway, her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title and interest which said John Nuttingway at the time of his decease had in and to a certain fund situated in said Charlestown containing by estimation Eighty acres more or less, with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing, bounded Northerly partly by land of William Spearman & partly by land of John Le Stephane, Easterly partly by land of the first land of Phebe A. Nuttingway & partly by land of the name of Stephen Polkhase Southerly by land of Albert H. Nuttingway and Samuel G. Cross, to the high way, Westerly by said highway to the place of beginning, or however otherwise bounded. To have and to hold the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto, to the said Phebe A. Nuttingway her heirs and assigns forever to her and her own only proper use benefit and behoof forever In witness whereof I have hereunto in my said capacity set my hand and seal this twelfth day of June AD 1887 In presence of George G. Cross Charles Cross Admin Ex L