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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 5th 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 dues 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 bought
by Blake Orbit here in the tenure of which a reference is hereby had to the plot of the
Indian Reservation on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said town.
Charles Cross
Collector
Charlestown January 31st 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 23rd 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 bills in all final detail 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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taxes, and place the same in the town treasury of said town; and whereas
the heirs of James Hoggard deceased neglected to pay the taxes assessed
against them and suffered in said tax bills amounting to the sum
of one dollar and thirty six cents, and in consequence thereof I did on
the 26th day of January 1880 levy warrants upon a certain tract
of land belonging to said heirs of James Hoggard in said town
and did advertise the same for sale, at three public notices in said
township for more than thirty days previous to sale, and sales in
the Monthly Arrangement Weekly by newspaper published in westerly
in said state and on the 21st day of February 1880 (said sale
having been adjourned to that date) sold the same I have proceeded
to sell at auction the whole of said tract of land (having been
previously authorized by the town council of said town to do)
and Mr Walter Tabodie of Providence R.I was the highest bidder
and for money paid in consideration of the sum of
seventeen dollars paid me by said Mr Walter Tabodie the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I the said collector do hereby
give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Mr Walter
Tabodie his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and
interest which the heirs of James Hoggard deceased had in a
tract of land at the time of assessing said taxes, with all the
rights privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, said
tract contains 17 acres more or less bounded Northerly, and
Easterly on land known as the East Common, Southerly on land
of the heirs of Charles Harmony and westerly on land of bachelor
for further but description reference is hereby made to the
map of the Indian Reservation on file in the town books
office in said town. And I the said Loballes Lorves collector as
officer do covenant with said Mr Walter Tabodie his heirs and
assigns forever, subject to the right of redemption provided
by law, and I the said Loballes Lorves collector as
officer do covenant with said Mr Walter Tabodie his
heirs and assigns that I have advertised said property as
herebefore stated and have complied with the terms of
the law regulating the collecting of taxes.
In my witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this second day of March A.D 1880
In presence of
Isa. Le Lorves, Loballes Lorves
Collector d.s.
State of Rhode Island ve
Washington sc
In Loballastown in this second
day of March 1880, Loballes Lorves collector of taxes personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
to him signed to be his free act and deed in this capacity
as aforesaid
George G. Lorves
Notary Public
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Collector's sale of Real Estate.
The undersigned Collector of taxes of the Town of Charleston
hereby gives notice that he will sell at public auction at Comes
Mills in said Town on Tuesday the 23rd day of February 1886 at 11
oclock a.m. the following described parcel of land, if the levy
upon which notice is hereby given, or no other, thereof or as may
be necessary to pay the taxes assessed thereon for the years 1883
1884 and 1885 and due unpaid of the said hereof amounting
to one dollar and seventy five cents together with interest and
expenses: A certain tract of land situated in said Charleston
containing 18 1/2 acres and bounded to James Coazard's heirs, for the
boundaries of which reference is hereby had to the plat of
Indian Reservation on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said
Charleston.
Charles Course
Collector
Charleston January 25th 1886
Received for record March 2nd 1886 at 6 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George La Course Town clerk
I KNOW All men by these presents, That I Joseph
S. Browning of Charleston in the county of Washington state
of O.R.D. for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar
to me paid by Charles Course of said Charleston the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge having received, released, and
forever quitclaimed and by these presents do remise, release
and forever quitclaim unto the said Charles Course, his heirs
and assigns forever, all the right title interest property, claim
and demand which I now have, or of right ought to have
or claim, in and to a certain farm situated in said Charleston
containing eighty acres, more or less with a dwelling house, and
other buildings thereon standing, bounded as follows, on the
North by the Browning or the road, on the East by the land of James
S. Kenyon, on the South by the land of James S. Kenyon his
on the West by lands of Benjamin B. Belden and George M. Ward
or river stream boundary. To have and to hold
the same with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances
thereto appertaining to the said Charles Course, his heirs and
assigns forever. And I the aforesaid Joseph S. Browning for
myself and for my heirs relatives and administrators of all manner
of law with the said Charles Course, his heirs and assigns do will
warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to the said
Charles Course his heirs and assigns forever, against the
lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by
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