The instrument's own words
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Whereas Dwight H. Brownes, of Narragansett, in the county of Kent and state of
Rhode Island, George Learned of Providence in the county of Providence
more and said state and William Sheffield of Newport in the
county of Newport and said state, were appointed commissioners under
chapter 80 of the acts of the General Assembly of the Session declared A.D. 1809
of said state entitled to enable the state to abolish the tribal sovereignty and tribal
relations of the Narragansett Indians, and before entering
into the execution of their duties, under the provisions of said act
were engaged to the faithful discharge of their duties
to the best of their abilities, first convened together to the purpose of plat mentioning
in reference to a survey of said land, being recorded in the office of the town
clerk of the town of Charlestown in said county of Kent in accordance pursuant
to the rules of the Supreme Court of said state, said surveyors the land surveyed
& the same was laid out as per deed in said survey into parcels in such
manner as was deemed by them to be most favorable to the advantageous
sale thereof, and gave notice that said lands would be sold by public
sale convening on Tuesday the eleventh day of July A.D. 1812
at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the treasury, or some other convenient place
in said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the "New England Herald"
and the "Rhode Island Herald" newspapers published in the
county of Providence in the "Providence Daily Journal" and the
"Hartford Courant" newspapers published in the city of
Hartford, any in the "Newport Mercury" a newspaper published in the
city of Newport for more than thirty days prior to the time
of said sale. Whereas said commissioners at said time
held said sale, and at an adjournment of said sale, of which
and commissioners gave public notice at the place where such sale
have been lately proclaimed to be held, of the time and
place to which said sale was adjourned, and in behalf of said
state did make sale of said lands by public auction to the highest
bidder thereof. Whereas at said sale on Tuesday the 11th day of
July A.D. 1812 lot No 6 (as per Lairs) on a certain plot partitioned Indian
Reservation at Charlestown and surveyed and platted by Mr. G. Greene which
said plot is to be accounted for by the records of deeds conserved in secretary
of Charlestown and which said lot contains twenty four (24) acres
was sold to Dudley Hopkins of this place for the sum of six (6)
Dollars, the being the purchase price the receipt whereof said sum has
been signed and acknowledged by said commissioners.
the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations do hereby grant for and in
consideration of some few Dollars received as aforesaid once
in these presents give grant bargain sell alien enfeoff and convey
to said Dudley Hopkins his heirs and assigns said lot No 6 (as per
above described) to have and to hold the same to him and his heirs
foreverly described.
Dudley Hopkins here by his hand and signature.
By testimony hereof Samuel Daniel George Treasurer of said state
for and in behalf of said state by virtue of the authority conferred
upon him by said act and all other authorities in this behalf enabled
herewith affix his seal his name and year of said state the 11th
(eleventh) day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two.
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Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Saml P. Cort
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Clarke
General Treasurer
L S
The Foreg. Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County, ss
Know All Men By these presents in said county this eleventh
day of September AD 1822 personally appearing before me Samuel
Clarke General Treasurer of said state safe and authentic the foregoing
instrument to be free and voluntary and duly sealed according to said state
and free and acting not void nor individually null in this
capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid
B. M. Bossy with J R [illegible]
Notary Public.
Approved August 11th 1822 Saml P. Cort Notary Public General
Received for record Aug 12th 1822 at 11 oclock and
recorded by George La Cour Clerk Samuel Clarke
Whereas Dwight R. H. Ames of Warwick in the county of
Kent and state of Rhode Island George Gormham Chace of Northumina
in the county of Washington near angle sea state and William R. Pepperill
of New port in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under chapter 6th of the Publics laws passed at the
January session AD 1820 of said state entitled An Act to abolish the
Feudal in tenure and tribal relations of the Narragansett Tribe of
Indians and before entering upon the performance of their duties
under the provisions of said act were employed in the faithful discharge
of their duties said commissioners the
hereby and past processes in series 6 of said act have been received
in the office of the town clerk of the town of congregate town of
Washington pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court of said state
said commissioners assigned the same said state as provided in
said act into lots or parcels in such manner as was deemed by
them likely to facilitate the advantageous sale thereof and gave
notice that said lands would be sold at public auction commencing on
Tuesday the eleventh day of July AD 1822 at ten oclock in the
forenoon but as the said indebted money have in sum total of
$12,000 on my advertisement in the "Weekly News" and the
"Narragansett Herald" his newspapers published in the county of
Washington in the Providence Daily Journal and the Providence
Morning Post his newspapers published in the city of Providence
and in the Newport Mercury a newspaper published in the city
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