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In testimony whereof Samuel Colark, General Treasurer of
said state, for and on behalf of said state, by virtue of the authority
conferred upon him by said act and of all other authorities in
this behalf enabling him, has hereunto affixed the name and
seal of said state this eleventh day of August A.D. eighteen hundred
and eighty two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
B. M. Bosworth Jr.
Ls. S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence Plantations
By Samuel Colark
General Treasurer
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County
of Providence in
said county, on this ninth day of January, 1883 personally
appeared before me Samuel Colark, 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.
B. M. Bosworth Jr. Notary Public
Approved Jany 5th 1883 Saml P. Holt Attorney General
Received for record January 22nd 1883 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George H. Corliss Town Clerk
I Know all men by These Presents That I Benjamin Thomas
of Charlestown in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island
for and in consideration of the sum of twenty eight dollars ($28.00)
well and truly paid by George Carmichael of said Charlestown
the receipt of thereof is hereby acknowledged, by these Presents do
give, grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto the said George
Carmichael for his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract of
land located in said Charlestown laid out and delineated as lot
No 1 (one) on a certain map entitled "Indian Reservation Coast line"
surveyed and platted by W. Greene and recorded in the records of
land evidened in said Charlestown, being the same lot purchased
by me at public auction July 18th 1882 of the land of the
Narragansett tribe of Indians, containing twenty seven (27) acres
and conveyed to me from the State of Rhode Island by
Samuel Colark, General Treasurer by deed dated August 11th
AD 1882 which is to be received in the land evidence records
of said Charlestown. To have and to hold the said
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granted and bargained premises, with all the privileges, and
appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining
to the said grantee his heirs and assigns, forever. And I the said
grantor for myself and for my heirs, executors and administrators, do
covenant to and bind the said grantee his heirs and assigns that
at and before the ensealing hereof I am the lawful owner of
the above bargained premises, and am seized and possessed of the
same in my own proper right as good, perfect and absolute estate
of inheritance in the simple, and have in myself good right to
sell and convey the said bargained premises, in manner as
aforesaid. Also that the said devised and bargained premises
with the appurtenances are free from all encumbrances of
what nature or malice soever. That ought in any measure or degree
of whatsoever make void this present deed.
Furthermore I the said grantor for myself my heirs executors
and administrators, do covenant and engage the above devised
premises for the said grantee his heirs and assigns, against
the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever
forever to warrant, secure and defend by these presents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 18th day of January AD 1883.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Albert Magee
Owen Shathplin
Benjamin Thomas S.S.
State of Rhode Island viz
Washington Co
In Richmond this eighteenth
day of January AD 1883 Benjamin Thomas personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument
by him signed, to be his free and voluntary act and deed.
W. H. Sanderson
Notary Public
Received for record January 23rd 1883 at 11 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Latcross Town Clerk.
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