The instrument's own words
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586 Know all men by these presents that I Harriet Webster the wife of William
Webster of Providence, in Providence County & State of Rhode Island & Providence's Plantations’
Witnesseth that I
and my Heirs and assigns set over and assign unto William Webster the sole
heir, sufficient and lawful Attorney for me and my heirs to have, hold, sell and
in any other manner convey, all my right and interest in my real estate,
properties & claims in and unto the Real estate now situated and improved as
described in a certain Deed Samuel B. Webster, of said city of Providence, deceased, dated signed &
executed however situated situate and lying and foremost bounded and described, to such
person or persons and for such terms and at such price as ninety years or more shall be subject
and I do hereby set over and name to seek, stipulate, and deliver such deed, deeds &
other conveyances or conveyances for the sole or option of the said Attorney, with such
clauses and covenants therein to be contained as per said Attorney shall think fit
W. Webster satisfying, confirming & allowing all such deed or deeds or other
conveyances which shall henceforth be sealed delivered and delivered by our said Attorney
according the said Real estate of which the said Samuel B. Webster did sign & possess
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and sealed this 14th day of
December A.D. 1856 Delphine B. Webster L.S.
Adeline M. Webster L.S.
L. S.
Mary A. Smith L.S.
William H. Smith L.S.
Samuel E. B. Webster L.S.
William B. Webster L.S.
Harriet S. Webster L.S.
E. Smith H. Webster L.S.
Benj. F. Danville
Thos. G. Burbank
P. R. Burbank of
W. H. Baker Witness
W. H. Baker P. J. W.
L. S. W. M.
State of New York )
County of Suffolk ) S S On this the seventeenth day of January 1860 before me personally
came Samuel B. & E. Webster and known to me to be the persons described in and who executed
the preceding instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes therein
mentioned
Henry A. Barnes Notary Public
State of Connecticut )
City of New London ) S S January First 1861 Personally appeared One B.
Webster, Samuel B. Webster and Adeline M. Webster and acknowledged their signatures
to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be their true and act and deed and for the
purposes therein mentioned before me
Henry A. Barnes Notary Public
State of Rhode Island my Court Westerly December 6th 1861 Personally appeared Edwin B. Webster
of Washington County in the State of Rhode Island to be true and correct, and as to the signatures of Mary A. Smith &
William H. Smith, also one of the subscribers to the foregoing instrument being examined by me found and referred to be by me as the same to be his and correct after having said instrument shown and referred to be by me as the same to be his and correct and that he does not wish to retrieve the same—before me—Samuel B. Barnes
Witness for recovery 12.24th 1861 at W. S. H. B. Samuel B. Barnes
Recorded and recorded By Atas. S. L. Clerk
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