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State of Rhode Island & Prov
Washington Ss
In Charleston on this 13th day of
June 1882 before me Voter Browning and winner E Browning Jus
tice personally a specialed beeke we have acknowledged that the foregoing
instrument by their hand signed to be their free and voluntary act and deal
George L Cross
Town Clerk
Received for record June 18th 1882 w 11 shill 9 pittance minutes The
me recorded it George L Cross Town Clerk
Cancellation P. D Ann 11th 1882
Having rec'd the full amt of the note secured by the within
mortgage both Principal and interest I hereby discharge the
same in full Witness my hand and seal
In presence of
Robert Holden. Geo. F. Babesock L. S.
Know all Men by these presents that I Munford L.
now Resident in the township of Washington State of R. I. for and
in consideration of the sum of nil dollars to me paid by Edwin Knowles
of the City and County of Providence in said State the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge and fully released and quitclaimed and for ever quitclaimed unto
said Edwin Knowles presents do grant release and convey other quitclaim unto
the said Edwin Knowles his heirs and assigns forever all the right
title interest property claim and demand certain describe a house or
lot of land or claim in and to all seventy of a certain tract
first entered in Charleston in said County of Washington and
known as the property also set me please in the page known as the
Samuel Brown farm and one single maple shavings on land
which I derive of the Macgregor heirs for a particular description
of the property sequence is hereby made in the Deed conveyed
also in said Charleston To have and to hold the
all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto
appertaining to the said Edwin Knowles his heirs and assigns forever
and I the aforesaid Munford L Knowles for myself and for my
heirs executors for all administrators do covenant with the said Edwin
Knowles his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the
aforementioned premises to the said Edwin Knowles his heirs and assigns
forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming
the same by rights or under me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
my hand and seal this 30th day of June in year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two
Signed sealed and delivered
In presence of
George L Cross Munford L Knowles L. S.
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State of Rhode Island & p[ro]v[ince]
Washington ss
In Charlestown in said county, on this
30th day of June AD 1882 The above named Nimrod & [illegible]
personally appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing
instrument to be his free and voluntary act and
deed.
George L. Cross Law Clerk
Received for record June 30th 1882 at 8 1/2 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George L. Cross Law Clerk
To the Honorable the Supreme Court sitting in and for the
County of Washington, at its February term AD 1881
The undersigned Commissioners appointed under Chapter 800 of
the Public Laws of the State of Rhode Island entitled an act to
abolish the Civil authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett
Tribe of Indians, in accordance with section 4 of the said Chapter
800 of the Public Laws respectfully report
That the said Commissioners, being duly engaged by support the
Constitution and laws of the State of Rhode Island and the
Constitution of the United States deal faithfully, and impartially
to discharge the duties of the said State of Commissioners until
said Chapter 800 of the Public laws being passed having received
from the Council of said Narragansetts a list indicating a joint
claim of all the Legitimate tribal rights and lands under the
said tribe to the State of Rhode Island, appointed Thursday
June 26th AD 1881 at 10 o'clock A.M. as the time and the Indian
Meeting House in the town of Charlestown as the place for hearing
all persons claiming to have an interest in the proceeds of the
said lands sold to the State of Rhode Island and such other
of time and place of said hearing according to the provisions
of section 3 of said Chapter 800 of the Public laws, which
said notice were given in the form hereunto annexed and in manner
following to wit now more than Thirty days notice of the above
time and place of said hearing having been given to the town council of the town
of Charlestown by reading the original whereas the annexed notice
is a true copy the said town council in person and like wise
notice was given to the Council of the said Narragansett Tribe of Indians
in this manner way more than Thirty days before the said meeting and
further the said Commissioners caused to be published notice of
said hearing in the County of Washington in the accepted form
in newspapers viz, to the Narragansett Weekly on May 22nd
AD 1881 and the succeeding issues of said paper once a week
to the said 20th day of June and in the "Provid. River Herald"
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