The instrument's own words
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Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel P. Cloet
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel R. Clark
General Treasurer
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County $\text{S}\text{s}$
For Providence in said county on this
eleventh day of August A.D. 1802 personally appeared before me
Samuel Clark Federal 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 acknowledged individually
and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid,
By M. R. Brown Jr.
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1802 Saml P. Cloet Attorney General
Received for record May 31st 1804 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George C. Lowe Town Clerk
KNOW all Men by these presents That we Caleb B.
Hopie and Mary E. Hopie wife of said Caleb B. Hopie of Westbury
in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island for and in
consideration of the sum of one dollar to us paid by George F. Bardick
of Charlestown in said county state the receipt whereof we do hereby
acknowledge have received released and forever quitclaimed and by
these presents do remise release and forever quitclaim into the said
George F. Bardick his heirs and assigns forever all the right title
interest property claim and demand which we now have or of right
ought to have or claim or in and to a certain tract of land situated in
said Charlestown known as the "Drowns lot" and containing by estimation
thirteen acres more or less bounded easterly on the highway that leads
from the postroad to Lepanons bridge southerly and westerly on
land of said George F. Bardick and westerly on land of Edward S.
Cone otherwise the same may be bounded measuring and
intending to convey the same tract and parcel of land described as
the second tract of land in a deed of Caleb B. Hopie to Mary E.
Hopie and recorded in record book I evidence in said Charlestown
from page 82 reference thereto being here made,
To have and to hold the saids with all the rights privileges and
appurtenances thereunto appertaining to the said George F.
Bardick his heirs and assigns forever. And we the aforementioned
Caleb B. and Mary E. Hopie for ourselves and for our heirs executors
and administrators do covenant with the said George F. Bardick
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his heirs and assigns, that we will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises
to the said George F. Burdich his heirs and assigns forever, against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by title or
under me.
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 31st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Frank M. Tillingshast
George Burdich
Leabel B. Hopkins L.S.
Mary E. Hopkins L.S.
State of Rhode Island
Washington sc
I, in Westerly in said county, on this 31st day of
May A.D. 1884 the above named Leabel B. Hopkins personally appeared
before me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to
be his free and voluntary act and deed and then and there the above named
Mary E. Hopkins also personally appeared before me, and being by me
examined fairly and apart from her said husband the being so apart
acknowledged the same instrument whom she explained to be by me, to be
her free did voluntary act and deed, and declared to me that she did not
wish to retract the same.
Frank M. Tillingshast
Attorney Public
Received for record May 31st 1884 at 2 oclock P.M.
and recorded by Isyge L. Corn town clerk
Know all men by these presents that I Bowen Briggs of Cohan-
tom Rhode Island administrator on the estate of Bowen Briggs late of said
Cohanstown deceased, by virtue of authority vested in me by the court of
probate for said town of Cohanstown and for in anniversary of the sum
of one thousand and three dollars to pay me my said Abby H. Bowen my
wife I Bowen of said cohanstown the being the highest bidder at a pub-
lic sale of the estate hereby conveyed on the 18th day of November 1813 the
receipt hereof I do hereby acknowledge as thereby in my said capacity,
grant bargain sell and convey and remise unto her said Abby H. Bowen her heirs
and assigns forever, all the right title and interest whole and entire whereas said
Bowen Briggs at the time of his decease had in and to a certain farm situated in
said Cohanstown bounded as follows. On the North by land late of
Gardner Cornwell deceased and land of Gordon H. Hopkins on the East
by land of the heirs of Perry Clearly deceased, and land of Thomas that
and others; on the South by land of Col. John R. Cornwell deceased on the West
by land of Thomas P. Shinn and heirs of Perry Clearly deceased containing
by estimation one hundred and fifty acres more or less,
To have and to hold the aforesaid premises with all the
privileges and appurtenances thereof to the said Abby H.
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