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assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming the same through or under me. On testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of July AD 1884.
In presence of
George L. Connor George Carmichael Jr L.S.
State of Rhode Island sc
County of Washington sc
In Charleston on this 25th day of July
1884 George Carmichael Jr personally appeared before me and declared
acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free
act and deed. George L. Connor Notary Public
Received for record July 25th 1884 at 11 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George L. Connor Tom Cole Clerk
KNOW ALL men by these presents that I William S.
Tucker of Charleston in the county of Washington and State of Rhode
Island for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to me paid by
Abbie S. Carmichael wife of late Carmichael Jr of said Charleston the
receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby remise release,
and forever quitclaim with the said Abbie S. Carmichael her heirs and
assigns forever all the right title interest property claim and demand
whilst I have any right or right ought to have or claim in and to a certain
tract of land situated in said Charleston containing by estimation
seventy five acres more or less with two dwelling houses barns & corrals them
and bounded as follows commencing at a point on the Narragansett Bay
just above the dam of the Carmichael Mfg Co and running easterly
land then southerly to the highway then along said highway to the
corner road of the south side of the lands of Legend R Kenyon thence southerly
along said road to a point or bound in the said fallen lot beyond the
residence of Varnum Curtis thence westerly along the lines of the Foster
farm so called and Abbie D. Benedict to the Narragansett River thence
westerly along said river to the point of beginning meaning and
intending to convey all and same the parcel formerly conveyed to me by
Geo. Carmichael Jr by deed dated July 21st 1884 and recorded in said
Charleston To have and to hold the same to the said Abbie
S. Carmichael her heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforesaid
William S. Tucker for myself my heirs executors and assigns
do covenant with the said Abbie S. Carmichael her heirs and assigns
that I will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises to the said
Abbie S. Carmichael her heirs and assigns forever against the
lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through
or under me. On testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 25th day of July AD 1884
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In presence of
Geo. Le Covery.
Wm S Lucker L.S.
State of Rhode Island ss
Washington ss
In North Kingstown this 20th day of July 1884
William S Lucker personally appeared before me and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free act and deed.
George Le Covery
Notary Public
Recorded for record July 23rd 1884 at 12 oclock PM
and recorded by George Le Covery Town Clerk
Whereas Dwight R Adams, of Narragansett in the county of Kent and
State of Rhode Island, George Lealmichael, of Richmond in the county
of Washington and said state, and William Sheffield of Newport
in the county of Newport and said state were appointed commissioners
under the authority of the Public laws, passed at the January session
AD 1802 of said state, entitled "An act to abolish the tribal authority
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 engaged to the faithful discharge of their
duties until whereas said commissioners after the report
of and plat mentioned in section 6 of said act had been recorded in the
office of the town clerk of the town of Charlestown in said county of
Washington in pursuance 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 at public auction commencing on Tuesday the
eleventh day of July AD 1823 at ten oclock in the forenoon, at or near
the Indian Trading House converse in said town of Charlestown, by advertisement
in the "Westerly Weekly" and the "Narragansett Herald" as well as in
papers published in the county of Washington, in the "Providence
Daily Journal" and the "Providence Evening News" newspapers
published in the county of Providence, and in the "Newport Mercury"
a newspaper published in the city of Newport, for more than thirty
days prior to the time of sale of said sale.
And whereas, said commissioners at said time and place, and
at an adjournment of said sale, of which said commissioners gave
public verbal notice at the place, where such sale had been last
previously notified to be held, of the time and place to which said
sale was adjourned, proceeded in behalf of said state, did make sale
of said lands at public auction to the highest bidders therefor.
And whereas at said adjournment of said sale, one, to wit, the
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