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8/27/1880 · DEED · book 10 page 542 doc 4664

From HISCOX JOHN STILLMAN life
To NEW YORK PROVIDENCE AND BOSTON RAIL ROAD CO life
Consideration one
Premises five and eighty three one hundredths (5.83) acres · tract of land bounded by Hiawatha bridge and railroad tracks (Charlestowne)

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⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

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542 Know all men by these Presents That I John Stillman Resident of Charlestowne in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island do make and acknowledge the sum of one hundred dollars to me in hand paid by the New York Provincial and Boston Rail Road Company, a corporation created by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island the price received whereby I do hereby acknowledge to do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company its successors and assigns forever any certain tract of parcel of land situated in said Charlestowne and bounded land described as follows to wit Beginning at a point two and seven tenths (2.70) feet westerly from diagonal Rail Road Company westerly track and six hundred (600) feet southerly from the westerly abutment of said Railroad Company bridge known as Hiawatha bridge Thence westerly three hundred and seventy seventy (370) feet Thence northerly sixty one and three fourths (61 3/4) degrees Thence northerly seventy nine and one fourth (79 1/4) degrees easterly seven hundred and one fourth (700 1/4) feet Thence southerly sixty one and three fourths (61 3/4) degrees easterly three hundred and seventy six (376) feet Thence southerly twenty eight degrees and thirty three minutes (28° 33') westerly one hundred (100) feet Thence southerly thirty one degrees and forty three minutes (31° 43') westerly one hundred and thirty seven and one half (137 1/2) feet Thence south sixty nine (69) degrees westerly three (3) feet Thence southerly forty nine and one half (49 1/2) degrees westerly forty seven (47) feet Thence southerly sixteen and one fourth (16 1/4) degrees westerly thirty two (32) feet Thence southerly twelve and three fourths (12 3/4) degrees easterly twenty eight (28) feet Thence twenty five and one third (25 1/3) degrees westerly three hundred and thirty six (336) feet to the place of beginning bounded on the south by land of the Grantor, on the East by land of the said Grantee, on the South by land of the said Grantee once on the West by land of the said Grantor containing five and eighty three one hundredths (5.83) acres as shown by the plat hereto annexed and made part of this instrument I have and to hold the
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above granted and bargained premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof to them said New York, Providence and Boston Rail Road Company to successors and assigns forever; and I said John Kelsey do hereby for myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, do covenant with said New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company its successors and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises that they are free of all encumbrances that I have good right to sell and convey the same to said New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company to hold as aforesaid and that I will warrant and defend the same to said New York Providence and Boston Railroad Company its successors and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons whatsoever In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Charlestown this thirtieth day of June 1850 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Mont. Miller Nathan P. Dixon Jr. John S. Kelsey L.S. State of Rhode Island, etc. Washington Ss In Charlestown in said county on this 30th day of June 1850 then personally appeared John S. Kelsey subscriber to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary act and deed Before me Nathan P. Dixon Jr. Notary Public Received for record August 27th 1850 at 3 o'clock P.M. and recorded by Charles Coons Town Clerk For plat see next page
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544 N E W S (Compass meridian) S 61° 45' 30" E 375.0 N 28° 14' 30" W 300.0 John Stillman Hiscox 5 83/100 Acres N 60° 02' 32" S 255.0 0° 36' 5" N 81.9 N Surveyed and Platted by Geo. C. Tingley May 19 1880 Scale 100 ft to an inch measurements in feet and decimals West abutment of Hiscox's Bridge Received for record Aug. 22 1880 at 3 o'clock P.M. and recorded by Chas. Cross Town Clerk N 28° 14' 30" W 355.8 77.11 77.46 Upper Gov. Providence & Boston Rail Road or Providence over Merrimacken Rail Road 608.0

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