The instrument's own words
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forever To appertain, accrue and defend by these presents
In Testimony Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this first day of April eighteen hundred and eighty two
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Charles Cross
George E. Cross
Joseph Ammons L.S.
Fanny Ammons L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ss
Washington DC
On Charlestown this first day of
April AD 1882 Joseph Ammons personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument, by him signed, To be
his free and voluntary act and deed and that at the same time Fanny
Ammons wife of said Joseph Ammons being otherwise formally and
a part from her husband and having the above instrument by her signed
known and of her own free will acknowledged the same to be her free
act and deed from which she did not wish to retract
George E. Cross
John Clerk
Received for record April 1st 1882 at 12 oclock PM
and recorded by George E. Cross Town Clerk
KNOW all men by these presents That Whereas Albert Burdick of
Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island is the owner
of a certain mill with privileges situated in the town of North Kingstown and Charlestown
in said County of Washington and is commonly called and known as Burdickswill
said estate consisting of the tracts or parcels of land one being in the town of
North Kingstown aforesaid containing eight acres more or less and aforesaid Burdickswill described
as follows Firstly the North by the highway Certainly by land of privately of Oliver Longworthy
and by the West by North westerly by land of the heirs of Albert Converse Readily
by the South formerly belonging to Lydia Calledge and land now formerly of the
heirs of James Ross with a highway running through the same highway starting from the
Factory gate most westerly lining the river and the buildings thereon land
of the said tracts is situated in Charlestown containing about one eighth of
an acre with buildings thereon and is bounded Northly Eastly and Southly by
land now a formerly of Geo. Kenyon and westerly by the Pawcatuck River bounded
the lot on the East side of the Pawcatuck River now Perrins bridge from which the
Burdickswill mill starts and whereas this said estate comprises also a cotton mill
Privilege and damy and water rights and privileges appertaining to said
lands and whereas John F. Gleason of Westerly in said County of Washin
gton is the owner of a certain other manufacturing privilege and estate
called Dorrnvill situated just below said Burdickswill privilege on said
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Reserved to River, and having a run and certain water rights and privileges opposite
out thirds. Now therefore in consideration of the sum of Seven Hundred
dollars to me the said Albert Burdick right paid by the said Thm E. Holden the
receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge to be true that I there reserve grant, bargain
sell and convey unto him and his heirs and assigns the said Thm E. Holden and his heirs and assigns all that piece
of land situated in the town of North Providence and the state of Rhode Island which
properly is a pasture in the field known as the lot and absolute right and license
forever to fish in the river with him the said Albert Burdick and all privileges the
varieties of fish in the river from the said river north through the small creek from
the reservoir to the river in the area by said Dorville farm at the north east
and in the west to the line of my farm with me the said Emma J. Burdick it is stipulated that I
do say it is about 12 rods white in measure about the cap by the cap of the hall dam at
Dorville at the north east the gap of running of the mill by the hall dam [illegible]
unto the second creek and due and sufficient claim of all failures or any of any damages
on damages on the part of the grantor of his right as a possessor of right of water’s
will and damages and privileges’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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It be their free and voluntary act and deed,
Before me [signature] Jno M. Douglass
Justice of the Peace.
From Clerk's office Westfield R.D. Received the foregoing deed
for record March 11th 1882 at 30 minutes past eight o'clock a.m.
and recorded same in Land Evidence of Westfield R.D Book 20 page
pages 177-178 & 179
Witness & Receiver Town Clerk.
Recorded for record in Charlestown April 4th 1882 at 11 o'clock a.m.
and received by George G. Cross comm Clerk.
Whereas the court of Probate of the town of Charlestown in the county
of Washington and state of Rhode Island by their decree
passed 11 March 1847 hath authorized Newman B. Card of Charlestown
foresaid Guardian of the person and estate of Rosina Card (widow
and wife of John B Card late of said Charlestown deceased
and also Guardian of the persons and estate of Susan A. Card
Daughter of John B Card late of said Charlestown deceased to sell at
Public Auction all the right title and interest which the said
John B Card at the time of his decease had in and to a
certain farm situated in said Charlestown containing by
estimation two hundred and fifty acres less bounds to the north more or
less bounded to the north by the Right by hand
formerly of Joseph Saylor and land of William E. Card on the
East by land formerly of Conrad Heaton on the South by land
of John H. Jones James H. Cardwell and on the East of Almon
Allen in the west by land of the heirs of Joseph Potter and
by the heirs of Nathan B. Allen or however other way bounded
Now therefore know all men that i the said Newman B. Card
Guardian as aforesaid and by the authority aforesaid and for
consideration of the sum of eight hundred dollars to me paid by
Clark Burdick and Mercy A. Burdick his wife of said Charlestown
(they being the highest bidder at a Public auction duly notified
and held on the premises aforesaid on the eleventh day of April
1882 do hereby in my capacity of Guardian as aforesaid bargain
and sell and convey unto the said the said Clark Burdick and
Mercy A. Burdick their heirs and assigns forever all the right
title and interest which the said Rosina Card (widow
as aforesaid) and Susan A. Card Joseph B Card (above Card
and Fannie E. Card (minor as aforesaid) had in and to the
above described and granted premises at the time of said said
Card
To have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and
appurtenances to the same belonging to them the said Clark
Burdick and Mercy A. Burdick their heirs and assigns
forever
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