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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 follows,
M. R. Boggs, for
Henry Bellick
Approved, August 11th 1882 Saml 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 the
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 Reservation lands lately surveyed and platted by
Dr. G. 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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assigns, that I am lawfully seised in fee simple of the aforementioned
premises; that they are free from all incumbrances, that I have good
right to sell and convey the same to the said sheffield his heirs
and assigns forever as aforesaid; and that I will and may warrant and defend the same to
the said Sheffield his heirs and any right lawful, against the
lawful claims and demands of all persons. In witness
whereof I the said Benjamin Thomas being a widower have hereunto
set my hand and seal this twenty second day November in the year
of our lord eighteen hundred and eighty two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
H. N. Faber
Joel M. Kenyon
Date of Rhode Island
Washington ss November 22nd 1882
Then personally appeared
the above named Benjamin Thomas and acknowledged the above
instrument to be his act and deed
Before me
H. M. Lanphear Notary Public
Received for record Dec 22nd 1882 at 4 oclock PM
and recorded by George Le Corves Town Clerk
Whereas, Dwight R. Adams, of Northwick in the county of Kent
and state of Rhode Island, Edward Pelton, of Pawtucket
in the county of Washington any said state, and William T. Sheffield
of Newport in the county of Newport and said state, were appointed
commissioners under Chapter 800 of the Public Acts, passed at the
January session A.D. 1880 of said state entitled An Act to abolish the
intertribal authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett Tribe of
Indians, and before entering upon the performance of the duties imposed
the provisions of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge of
their duties.
And whereas, said commissioners after the report
and what mentioned in section 6 of said act, had been recorded in the
file of the Town clerk of the town of Charlestown in said county of
Washington pursuant to the order of the superior 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 may seem good to them likely
to facilitate the advantageous sale thereof and gave notice that said
lots would be sold by public auction and competition on Tuesday the
sixth day of July A.D. 1882 at ten oclock in the forenoon at a near
the Social Meeting House in said town of Charlestown by advertisement
in the "Weekly Echo" and the Narragansett Herald thus newspapers
published in the county of Washington in the "Providence Daily
Journal" and the "Providence Evening News" newspapers published
in the city of Providence and in the "Newport Mercury."
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