The instrument's own words
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Know all men that I Thomas A. Barber of Hopkinton, county of Washington
and state of Rhode Island in consideration of one hundred and forty dollars ($140) to
me paid by Mary Lo computer, wife of George B. Lo computer of said Hopkinton the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto
said Mary Lo computer for here and heres and assigns forever a certain lot of land situated
in the town of Hopkinton, county and state aforesaid, it being said Lot No 1
run a plot of land conveyed by deed from Samuel B. Barber dated to said
Thomas A. Barber dated 1st day of May 1850, and recorded in Land Evidence of
said Hopkinton town, Book 40 page 583 to 584 as the plot is measured in
said Deed described East on the highway 50 feet south 58 east a one eighth (1/8) undivided
interest in a street running through said lot from said Samuel B. Barber
to the sea said street being twenty five (25) feet wide and
bounded on the east by lot no 2 and on the west by lot no 3 on southern
side plot the said Mary C computer, Barber and assigns to be helden for one
eighth (1/8) the expense of keeping said street and gate or gates thereon in repair
to have and to hold the said property and boundaries granted to the trustees of said deed from Samuel B.
Barber to others via Samuel B. Barber reserving also to said Thomas A. Barber
for his heirs and assigns a right to freely pass and repass at all times along the
streets laid out on said lot but for the common use of all the furnaces located upon
the said tract to the said Mary Lo computer her heirs and assigns forever
albeit the said Thomas A. Barber for myself, my heirs executors and administrators
in covenant with the said Mary Lo computer, Barber, her heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized
in fee of the premises aforesaid, that I have good right to sell and convey the same to said Mary Lo
computer to hold as aforesaid, and that I will warrant and defend the same to said Mary Lo
computer her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of
all persons - Signed I Sarah J. Barber wife of said Thomas A. Barber in consideration
of the aforementioned sum paid her husband, the consent of Thomas A. Barber to said lot
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 13th day of October in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
Executed signed & sealed
presence of C. A. Barber
C. A. Barber
Thomas A. Barber L.S.
Sarah J. Barber L.S.
S. B. Barber
State of Rhode Island & Washington ss
In Hopkinton this 13th day of October AD 1889 Shore personally
appeared before me J Thomas A. Barber, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
ment being their signatures to be his free and voluntary act and deed
Edward Lo computer
Notary Public
Received for Record November 1st 1889 at 3 o'clock S. B.
and recorded by clerks hours - Samuel Lo computer