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Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Narragansett of Narrwich in the county of Kent and
State of Rhode Island, George Carmichael jo of Richmond in the
county of Washington and said state and William P. Sheffield jo of
Newport in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under Chapter Two of the Public acts, passed at the
January session, AD 1848 of said state entitled "An Act to establish the
Rhode Island authority and public relations of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians"
and before entering upon the performance of their duties made under the
provisions of said act were obligated to the faithful discharge of their
duties, and whereas therefore said commissioners after the report and
plat mentioned in section 6 of said act had been entered 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, divided the
lands assigned to the 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 by public auction commencing on Tuesday the eleventh day of
July, AD 1850 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at our near the entrance of
the shelling house in said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the
Weekly Weeklyly [illegible] and the Narragansett Gazette newspapers
published in the county of Washington, in the Providence Daily Journal
and the Providence Courant these newspapers published in
the city of Providence and the the Providence Journal a newspaper
published in the city of Worcester and the the [illegible] a newspaper
published in the city of [illegible] in order for more than thirty days prior to
the time of said sale; and whereas said commissioners at said time
and place at an agreement’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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A.D, eighteen hundred and eighty two.
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel P. Lott
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel L. Tarkey
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Providence County ss.
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
In Providence in said county,
on this, eleventh day of August, A.D. 1882, personally appeared before
me Samuel Larkey, General Treasurer of said State and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of
said state, and his free and voluntary act and deed individually, and
in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid.
By M. Boggs, for
Henry B. Smith
Secretary Public
Approved, August 11th 1882 Samuel P. Lott Attorney General
Received for record Dec. 7th 82 at 2 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George T. Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these Presents, That I Benjamin Thomas of
Volunteer in the State of Connecticut in consideration of one hundred
dollars to me paid by William P. Sheffield of the city & county of
Newport in the State of Rhode Island the receipt hereof is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto
said William P. Sheffield and to his heirs and assigns all that certain lot
or parcel of land situate in the Town of Johnston, County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island aforesaid, being lot No 26 on a collation plat
entitled Indian Reservations lately surveyed and plotted by
Dr. S. Greene which said plat is to be recorded in the records of land
evidence in said town of Johnston and which said lot is known as
the School House Lot and contains lately eighty (80) acres together with
the buildings and improvements thereon, being the same premises
heretofore conveyed to this grantor by deed from the State of
Island and Providence Plantations
to have and to hold
the above granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances
thereto belonging to the said William P. Sheffield for he and his heirs
and assigns, for their use and benefit forever. And I the said
Benjamin Thomas for myself and my heirs, executors and administrators
do covenant with the said William P. Sheffield for his heirs and
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