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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,
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 General Treasurer as aforesaid
Samuel R. Colt
Notary Public
Approved August 11^th 1852 Samuel 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 Fay of Rocky Mount, in
the county of Washington and said State, and William Sheffield
of said Port in the county of said State and said state,
appointed commissioners under an Act of the General Assembly
passed at the January session 1850, A^D 1850, of said state entitling
them to ascertain all the rightful authorities and title relations of the
Narragansett tribe of Indians, and before entering upon the
performance of these duties under the provisions of said act
they 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
Washington presenting to the judges of the supreme court of said
state Evidence that the lands assigned to the said state as provided
in said act were lots or 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 Westly
Herald and the Narragansett News his newspapers
published in the county of Washington in the Providence Daily
Journal and in the Providence Evening Press, these newspapers
published in the city of Providence, and in the Newport Mercury
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a newspaper published in the city of Newport for more than
thirty days prior to the time of said sale. And whereas said
commissioners at said time and place, and at an adjournment of
said sale of which said commissioners gave public notice
of the place where such sale should take place have that previously notified
to be held at the time and place to which said sale has adjourned
for and in behalf of said state did make sale of said lands at
said sale to the highest bidder therefore Whereas
at said sale on the eleventh day of August AD 1882 Lot No 5
(one) in a certain plot entitled "Indian Reservation East side"
surveyed and platted by Md. Greene which said plot is to be recorded
in the records of land evidence in said town of Glastonbury and whereas
said lot contains seven (7) acres was sold to Dudley Hopkins
of said Charlestown for the sum of Ten ($10) Dollars the same being the
highest bid offered therefore for which said sum has since been received by
said commissioners Therefore now therefore that the State of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for and in consideration of said
sum of Ten $ Dollars received as aforesaid does by these presents
give grant bargain sell alien convey and convey to said Dudley
Hopkins his heirs and assigns said Lot No 5 (five) hereinbefore described
to have and to hold the same from said Dudley Hopkins his heirs
and assigns forever In testimony whereof said Samuel Clark
General Treasurer of said state for and in behalf of said state by virtue
of the authority conferred upon him by said act and of all other
authorities in this deed enabling him has hereunto affixed the
signe and seal of said state this eleventh day of August one thousand
eight hundred and eighty two
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel P. Coltt
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Clark
General Treasurer
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County SS In Providence in said county
on this eleventh day of August AD 1882 personally appeared
before me Samuel Clark General Treasurer of said state and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free and voluntary
act and deed of sale and his free and voluntary act and deed
individually and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid
Sam P. Coltt
Notary Public
th Proved August 11th 1882 Sam P. Coltt Attorney General
Received for record Aug 11th 1882 at 11 o clock AM
and recorded by George L. Cross Town Clerk
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