The instrument's own words
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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 5 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 highway or the road, on the East by the land of James
A. Kenyon, on the South by the land of James A. Kenyon his
on the West by lands of Benjamin B. Belden and George M. Ward
or several other individuals. 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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through or under me. In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and seal this second day of March in
the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
six.
Signed sealed and delivered
In presence of
Geo. L. Corvesse Joseph L. Browning L. S.
State of Rhode Island sc
Washington sc
In Charlestown in said county on
this second day of March A.D. 1886 the above named Joseph
L. Browning personally appeared before me, and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free and
voluntary act and deed. George L. Corvesse Notary Public
Received for record March 2nd 1886 at 5 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George L. Corvesse Town Clerk
I know all men by these presents, That I Charles Corvesse
of Charlestown in the county of Washington State of R.I. for and
in consideration of the sum of one dollar to be paid to me by Emma
A. Browning wife of Joseph L. Browning of Charlestown aforesaid,
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have received,
released and forever quitclaimed and by these presents do remise,
release and forever quitclaim unto the said Emma A Browning,
her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title, interest,
property, claim and demands which I now have or of right
ought to have or claim in or convey a certain farm situated
in said Charlestown containing fifty acres more or less with
a dwelling house and other the Buildings thereon standing
bounded as follows, on the South by the Post road on the
East by land of James A Kenyon on the north by land of said
James A. Kenyon, and on the West by land of Benjamin B.
Kenyon and George W Ward a hundred others hundred,
To have and to hold the same, with all the rights
privileges and appurtenances theresunto appertaining to the
said Emma A Browning her heirs and assigns forever,
And I the aforesaid Charles Corvesse for myself and for
my heirs, executors and administrators do covenant with
the said Emma A Browning her heirs and assigns, that
I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises
to the said Emma A Browning her heirs and assigns
forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all
persons claiming by through or under me.
In Testimony whereof I have herento set my hand
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