The instrument's own words
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hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of April AD 1891
Witness to signature
A.W. Kenyon Mary E. Howes L.S.
Daniel J. Arnold
State of Rhode Island
Washington County ss.
In Richmond in said county of
Washington on this 2nd day of April AD 1891 Then the
above named Mary E. Howes personally appeared and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument in writing by
her signed to be her free and voluntary act and deed.
Before me Alfred W. Kenyon
Notary Public L.S.
Received for record April 6 1891 at 9 o'clock am
and returned by George C. Lawry Town Clerk
To all People to whom These Presents shall come
I Albert S. Babcock of Hopkinton County of
Washington State of Rhode Island hereinafter called
the grantor, Send Greeting, Know you, That I the
said grantor for and in consideration of the sum of
one Dollar to me in hand paid before this sealing hereof
well and truly paid by Elias J. Babcock of Hopkinton
County of Washington State of Rhode Island hereinafter
called the grantee the receipt whereof I do hereby
acknowledge and am therewith fully satisfied
contented and paid, and thereof last and forever freed
from thereof, do separate, acquit and discharge
the said grantee his heirs, executors and administrators
forever, All these presents, have given, granted, bargained
sold, alienated, enfeoffed, conveyed and confirmed
and by these presents do fully, fully and absolutely
give, grant, bargain and sell all and enfeoff, convey
and confirm unto the said grantee his heirs and
assigns forever, A certain tract or parcel of land
situate in Coventry and Wickford in the town of Hopkinton
County and State aforesaid and bounded
and described as follows. Beginning at the South
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East corner of a cottage lot now owned by the said Elias Do Bulloch
and marked on the plat of Cottage sites on oven in the street
alerts offices in the Town of Charleston as lot No. 6, thence
North westerly in the direction followed by the South line of
said lot No. 5 about 23 feet or until it reaches a fence
40 feet from the wall as it now stands, thence
Southly along the line 40 feet from the wall, thence
(30) feet thence South westerly about 20 feet or until
it reaches the Southeast corner of said lot No. 6, thence
Northly along the line of said lot 30 feet to the
point of beginning together with the right of way to pass
with teams or on foot from the East end of said tract
in a direct line Northly to the corner of the highway
at the wall. To have and to hold, the said
granted and bargained premises, with all the privileges
appurtenances and commodities to the same belonging
or in any wise appertaining to the said granted premises
and assigns forever To them and theirs only
Further and better and before, however, And I
do hereby for myself and my heirs executors
and administrators, do covenant promise and grant
to and with said grantee, his heirs and assigns
that at all and before the executing hereof I am the
true, sole and lawful owner of the above bargained
premises, and am lawfully seized and possessed
of the same in my own proper right as good perfect
and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple;
and have in me good right full power and lawful
authority to grant bargain, sell, convey and confirm
the said bargained premises in manner as aforesaid
And that the said grantee his heirs and assigns
shall and may from time to time, and at all times
forever hereafter, by their force and virtue of these presents
lawfully, peaceably and quietly have, hold, use,
occupy, possess and enjoy the said convened and
bargained premises with the appurtenances free
and clear, and fully and clearly acquitted
exonerated and discharged of and from all and
all manner of former or other gifts, grants,
bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails, jointures
doweries, judgments, executions and encumbrances, of
what name or naturesoever, that might in any measure
or degree obstruct or make void this present deed.
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250 Furthermore I the said grantor for myself and for my
heirs, executors and administrators do covenant and agree
the above demised premises to the said grantee his heirs
and assigns against the lawful claims or demands of any
person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant, seisin
and defend by these presents, And I Leantie A.
Babecock wife of the said Albert S. Babecock in consider-
ation of the sum aforesaid, do hereby release and
forever quitclaim unto the said grantee his heirs and
assigns all my right title & interest in and to the aforesaid
premises, In testimony whereof we have hereunto
set our hands and seals this twenty ninth day of September
eighteen hundred and ninety,
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
John L. Kenyon Albert S. Babecock L.S.
Leantie A. Babecock L.S.
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington sc
In Richmond This 29th day of
September A.D. 1890 Albert S. Babecock personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing
instrument(s) by him signed to be his free and
voluntary act and deed John L. Kenyon
Notary Public
Received for record April 6th 1891 at 11 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George L. Lorres Town Clerk
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