The instrument's own words
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440 Know all Men by these Presents That
we Rowland Tucker & Patience A Tucker his wife of Southam
let Thomas J Champlin & Laura E Champlin his wife
of South Kingstown & Henry D Green & Mary la Green his
wife s Charleston let for and in consideration of the
sum of seventy five dollars to be paid by Jason P Green of
Charlestown aforesaid the receipt whereof we hereby
acknowledge have remised released and forever quitclaimed
and by these presents do remise release and forever quitclaim
unto the said Jason P Green his heirs and assigne
forever all the right title interest property claim and
demand which we may have hope of or right ought to have or
claim in and to a certain tract of wood land situate
in said Charlestown family known by olden time as the blanks
now deceased containing by estimation seven acres the
same more or less and known as Toms lot of land of the
heirs of Jason P Green deceased East by lands of Isaac
Tux & Mary D Croning & Southwesterly by lands
of Mr Ella Davis or a presage thernase boundar
To have and to hold the same with all the rights priviles
and appurtenances appertaining to the sum the said
Jason P Green his heirs and assigns forever And we the
aforenamed Rowland A Tucker & Patience A Tucker
Thomas J Champlin & Laura E Champlin & Henry D
Green and Mary la Green in ourselves and for our heirs
executors and administrators do covenant with the said
Jason P Green his heirs and assign that we will warrant and
defend the possession of the premises to the said Jason
Green his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful full
claim and demand of all persons claiming same through
or under us In Testimony Whereof we have here
set our hands and seals this 2 day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
eight
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Rowland Tucker Ss
Patience J Tucker Ss
Thomas J Champlin Ss
Laura E Champlin Ss
Henry D Green Ss
Mary la Green Ss
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State of Rhode Island
Washington county ss. In Charlestown in said
county on this 28th day of December AD 1847, the above named
Portland Tucker, Thomas J. Champlin & Henry S. Deere
personally appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing
instrument by their signatures to be their free and voluntary
act and deed; and then and there the above named Alice
S. Tucker, Laura C. Champlin and Mary C. Deere also
personally appeared before me, and being duly sworn declared
privity and part from their said husbands act acknowledged
the same instrument, shown and explained to them by me,
to be their free and voluntary act and deed, and declared
to me that they did not wish to restrict the same,
Charles Cross
Justice of the Peace
Received for record Jan 27th 1848 at 1/2 o'clock
A.M. and recorded by Chas. Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these Presents That sd
James S. Kenyon of the City & County of Providence in the State
of Rhode Island sold for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty
dollars to me paid by Rufus M. Pierce of Westerly in the County
of Washington State aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged I have remised released and forever quit claimed to
and by these presents do remise release and forever quit claim to
unto the said Rufus M. Pierce his heirs and assigns forever
all the right title interest part property claim and demands whatever
I now have, a right ought to have, or claim, in and to a certain
tract of land situated partly in Charlestown purely in Westerly
aforesaid, containing thirty five acres more or less, and is bounded as
follows, beginning at the South east corner of said lot and the North
East corner of Henry Healy's lot by the highway thence North 86°
West 14 chains & 49 links as the wall now stands to a piece of
old wall at the South west corner of that lot thence North 6° East
22 chains & 29 links to a wall that runs North West thence
North 66° West 14 chains & 32 links in the wall now stands to a
stake & stone thence North 9° East 11 chains & 64 links to a
stake & stone near the end of a wall by land belonging to the
heirs of Jared Babcock thence South 65° East 11 chains & 19
links to said highway (as the wall now stands) Measured by