The instrument's own words
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Whereas Dwight R. Adams, of Narragansett in the county of Kent and
said Narragansett land, George Orringe hacket Jr. of Kingstown in the
county of Washington in said state, and William R. Sheffield the Clerk of
the court in the county of Kent in said state, were appointed
commissioners more over for the purpose of the legislative body passed at the
General Assembly AD 1848 of said state whereas i.e. not to establish the
said commissioners and other officers of the permanent committee of
said act and before entering into the performance of their duties
the provisions of said act were considered to be insufficient to the faithful discharge
of their duties whereas said commissioners after the first
act passed and mentioned in section 6 of said act had recovered in the
free fee of the town clerk of the town of Cranston in said county of
Kent from previous searches in the office of the Common Court of said state divided
the lands specified to the uses of the said state as provided in said act into lots or
parcels in some manner deemed by them likely to facilitate the
advantages of sale therefore and gave notice that said lots should be sold
at public auction convenient to be held on the eleventh day of July AD
1849 at 12 pm on the porch in the promenade at or near the Brandreth House in
said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Providence Daily Bulletin and
the Providence Gazette "two newspapers published in the county of
Washington in the Providence District journal" and "the Providence
Daily Bulletin" two newspapers published in the city of Providence and
in the Providence journal a newspaper published in the city of Newport
for more than thirty days prior to the time named for said sale
as well as whereas said commissioners at said time and place and at an adjournment
thereof of said sale of which said adjournment gave public notice at the
place and the place where such sale had been first previously noticed for the
time and place where in such sale were adjourned for and in
behalf of said state made sale of said parcels at public auction
to the highest bidders therefore now Whereas at said sale on
to wit the eleventh day of July AD 1849 the lot comprised of that part of the common
common" on a certain plan entitled "wooden Reservation West side"
surveyed and plotted by M. G. Greene which said plat is to be recorded
in the records of land evidence in said town of Cranston and which
said lot is east of the coast of Kent Common so called and contains fifty
(50) rods square was sold to George B. Goodrich of said state for the
sum of twenty five dollars he being the highest bidder whereas
said sum paid since then received by said commissioners
i now know that the state of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations for and in consideration of said sum of twenty five
dollars received as aforesaid deed by these presents grant bargain
sell alienise convey and confirm convey to said George B. Goodrich his heirs
and assigns quit claim herin before described To have and to hold
to him his heirs assigns forever I foreach his heirs and assigns forever
By signing witness of Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said state
by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by said act
or any other authorities in this behalf enabling him has
hereto affixed the name and seal of said state the eleventh
day of August AD eighteen hundred and forty nine
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Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel R. Colt
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Colbath
General Treasurer
Ss.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss.
In Providence in said county on this eleventh
day of August A^D 1852 personally appeared before me, Samuel Colbath
General Treasurer of said state and acknowledged the foregoing
instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said State
and of his free and voluntary act and deed individually and in his
capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid
Samuel R. Colt
Notary Public
Approved August 11^th 1852 Saml R. Colt Attorney General
Received for record Aug 12^th 1852 at 11 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George L. Converse Town Clerk
Whereas, Dying R. Adams of Warwick in the county of Kent and
State of Rhode Island, George Earnest Rail foy of Rocky Mount, in
the county of Washington and said state, and William Sheffield
of the city of Port in the county of State and said state, while
appointed commissioners under Chapter four of the Public Laws
passed at the January session 1850, A^D 1850, of said state entitling
them to ascertain the rightful authorities and other relations of the
Narragansett tribe of Indians, and before entering upon the
performance of these duties under the provisions of said act
were engaged in the faithful discharge of their duties,
And whereas, said commissioners after the report and plat
mentioned in section 6 of said act had been recorded in the office
of the town clerk of the town of Charlestown in said county of
Washington pursuant to the order of the supreme court of said
state, provided the lands assigned to the said state as provided
in said act into lots & parcels in such manner as was deemed
by them likely to facilitate the advancement of said tribe, and
gave notice that said lands would be sold at public auction
commencing on Tuesday the eleventh day of July, A^D 1852 at
ten o'clock in the forenoon at a near the Sholish meeting House
in said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Westerly
Winds, and the "Narragansett News" his news papers
published in the county of Washington, in the Providence Daily
Journal" and the "Providence Courier-Budget," these news papers
published in the city of Providence, and in the Newport Mercury,
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