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To all people to whom these presents shall come, I Charles Herox of
Charlestown in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, Collector
of taxes of said Charlestown do hereby Declare Whereas the said town of
Charlestown at a meeting duly notified and held on the fifth day of June 1833
voted that a tax of fifty cents on each poll one hundred dollars to be assessed on the taxable
property in said town for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said town and said
tax was assessed on the 23rd day of August 1833 according to law and said
taxes were not all paid and on the 30th day of August 1835 according to law and
said town at a meeting duly notified and held on the 30th day of June 1839 voted
that a tax of fifty cents on each poll one hundred dollars to be assessed on the taxable property in
said town for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said town and said tax
was assessed on the 27th day of August 1839 according to law and
said town at a meeting duly notified and held on the 21st day of June 1840 voted
that a tax of fifty cents on each poll one hundred dollars to be assessed on the taxable property
in said town for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said town and said tax
was assessed on the 28th day of August 1840 according to law and
the said town of Charlestown did cause the soil called with the narrowest
attitudes traced by the town line of said town seeming me to proceed according
to law and describe said taxable lands and place the same in the town records of said town
and place the same in the books of said town Whereas the deceased neglected to pay the taxes assessed
against them and expressed in said tax for the year amounting to the sum of one
dollar and fifty cents and on consequence thereof 2 dollars 10 cents on the 25th day
of January 1846 said town mandates upon certain lots of land belonging to said
estate of late Peter Perin in said Charlestown and did advertise the said for sale
at the publick place in said Charlestown for more than twenty days previous
to said sale and on the 1st Tuesday next following May 1846 proceeded to sale
during the said sale during on the 25th day of May 1846 proceeded to sale at Auction
the whole of said lots of land bearing boundaries established by the town records
said lands sold to said Kinnematt & Brown the purchase price being
the highest bidder therefore I have known that in consideration of the sum of seventy
five dollars paid to me said Kinnematt & Brown the purchase price I do hereby acknowledge
the said polls paid to me and do hereby give grant bargain sell convey and make to the said
Kinnematt & Brown her and his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and interest which the
Kinnematt & Brown her and his heirs and assigns possess at the time of acquiring said taxes to wipe out all the right
of late Peter Perin deceased had and at the time of acquiring said taxes to wipe out all the right
property and appurtenances thereto belonging said lands bound north by [illegible] and east by [illegible]
bound westerly bordering on land of the heirs of Seth Quackenbush boundary on land of George Findley
boundly partly bordering on land of Seth Braddock and partly on land of Gideon B. Hooper and
westerly bordering on land of Seth Braddock and partly on land of Gideon B. Hooper and
mentioning a reference being made to the maps of the town records in possession on file
in the town Clerk's office in said Charlestown for a further description of the same.
to have and to hold the same to have the said Kinnematt & Brown her and his assigns
forever subject the right of redemption provided by law.
And I the said Charles Herox Collector as aforesaid do covenant with said Kinnematt
& Brown her and his assigns that I have advertised said property as herein before stated
and have complied with the terms of the law regarding the collecting of taxes.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of March AD 1846
In presence of
He. L. Herox.
Charles Herox.
Collector Lt sd
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State of Rhode Island &c
Washington &c
In Charlestown on this second day of
March 1886 Charles Cross collector of taxes personally appeared before me and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument to be his free act or deed in his capacity as
above named.
George G. Cross
Notary Public
Collector's Sale of Real Estate
The undersigned Collector of taxes of the Town of Charlestown hereby gives notice that
he will sell at Public Auction at Cross Hall in said town on Tuesday February 25th 1886
at 2 o'clock p.m. the following described parcel of land / of the levy upon which notice is
hereby given / or in the sums thereby as may be necessary to pay the taxes assessed thereon
for the years of 1883, 1884 and 1885, and due and unpaid as the date hereof amounting
to One dollar and seventy cents together with interest, costs and expenses.
A certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown containing 37 1/2 acres and lots
to be sold Orbit here in the boundaries of which appear hereby lead to the plot of the
Indian Reservation on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said town.
Charles Cross
Collector
Charlestown January 25th 1886
Received for record March 2nd 1886 at 4 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George G. Cross Town Clerk
To all people to whom these presents shall come; I
Leopold Cross of Charlestown in the county of Washington
State of Rhode Island Collector of taxes of said Charlestown, do hereby
Whereas the said town of Charlestown at a meeting duly notified and
held on the fifth day of June 1883 voted that a tax of 1/2 per cent
on each one hundred dollars be assessed on the ratable property in
said town for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said town
and said tax was afterwards (wry) on the 21st day of August 1883
assessed according to law; and whereas said town at a meeting duly
notified and held on the 5th day of June 1884 voted that a tax of 1/2 per
cent on each one hundred dollars be assessed on the ratable
property in said town for the purpose of defraying the expenses
of said town and said tax was afterwards (wry) on the 25th day
of August 1884 assessed according to law; and whereas said town
at a meeting duly notified and held on the 2nd day of June 1885
voted that a tax of 1/2 per cent on each one hundred dollars be
assessed on the ratable property in said town, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of said town, and said tax was afterwards
(wry) on the 26th day of August 1885 assessed according to law; and
the tax rolls in hand delivered to me the said collector with
the warrants attached thereto signed by the Town Clerk of said
town requiring me to proceed according to law and collect said
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