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State of New York
County of New York SS
City of New York, May 18th AD 1891
Personally appeared J. Augustus Righes signer and sealer
of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same
to be his free act and deed,
Before me James M. Basine
Notary Public
Said York County
L.S.
Received for record May 25 1891 at 6 oclock PM
and recorded by George R. Rose Law Clerk
Lo All People to whom these Presents shall come
We Charles H. Kenyon of Norwich, State of Connecticut,
Kenneth A. Kenyon and Susan B. Kenyon both of
Richmond, County of Washington in the State of Rhode
Island hereinafter called the grantors, Send Greeting
Know ye that we the said grantors for and in consider
ation of the sum of one hundred dollars to us in hand
before the ensealing hereof well and truly paid by John
H. Kenyon of said Richmond, hereinafter called the
grantee, the receipt whereof one do hereby acknowledge,
land are therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid;
and thereof, and of those sum paid and parcel thereof do
forever acquit and discharge the said grantee his
heirs, executors and administrators forever by these presents,
have given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed,
conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do
fully, fully and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell,
alien, enfeoff, convey and confirm Unto the said grantee
his heirs all assigns, convey, forever A certain tract or parcel
of land with a dwelling house, barn and other improvements
located thereon, which land Parcel of land lies partly in
said town of Richmond and partly in the town of Charlestown
in said county of Washington, and is bounded and
described as follows, on the North by land of Mary A.
Kenyon, on the East by land of Mary M. Kenyon and
George W. Fouger, on the South by land of [illegible] Co.
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Earnshaw, John Lobapell, Charles P. Wheeler, George W.
Colarks, Robert E. Barley, John Kelly, Charles Connell,
George W. Hope et al and Edwin Fisher, and on the West
by land of George M. Hope et al and J. H. Clark, or fence.
The said land may be bounded, and estimated to contain at
least 150 acres the same being the farm of Lewis Kenyon
our father, late of said Richmond deceased, and mentioned
and described in his last will duly probated in said
Richmond April 1st 1839, and recorded in Probate Book
vol 7, at pages 175, and 176, and which said farm was
devised to us by the Will of our mother Ann Kenyon late
deceased, excepting however such portions of said farm
as we have heretofore conveyed as apprentices of heirs of
and further excepting likewise that portion which,
has been set off apart and enclosed as a cemetery for the
heirs of Lewis Kenyon as the same piece of land is
delineated upon a map of a proposed highway
in Richmond surveyed and platted by a committee
of the town of Richmond Dec 22, 1841 and also excepting
therefrom that piece of said farm which lies south of the
roadbed of the Providence and Richmond, wherein stands
the house now occupied by said Hannah and Abraham
as a residence and which said piece is enclosed by the
road bed of said Railroad on the north, by the old highway
running through Kenyon village on the East and by
land of John H. Kenyon on the West.
To have and to hold, the said granted and bargained
premises, with all the appurtenances, privileges and
commodities to the same belonging or in any wise
appertaining to the said granted his heirs and assigns
forever to this and their only proper use benefit and
behoof forever, And we the said grantors for ourselves
our 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 we
are the true, sole and lawful owners of the above bargained
premises and are lawfully seized and possessed of the
same in our own proper right as good, perfect and absolute
estate in heritable fee simple, and have in ourselves
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
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to time, and at all times forever hereafter, by force and
virtue of these presents, lawfully, peaceably and quietly have,
hold use, possess possess and enjoy the said demised and
bargained premises, with the appurtenances free and clear
and frees and clearly acquitted, exonerated and discharged
of whom all and all manner of former or other
gifts, grants, bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails
estates, doweries, judgments, executions and encumbrances
of what name or nature whatsoever, that might in any measure
in any degree obstruct or make void this present deed,
Furthermore we the said grantors promise that our
heirs, executors and administration, do covenant and
engage the above demised premise to the said grantee
his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims or
demands of any person or persons whatsoever, forever
to warrant and defend by these presents.
And I Emeline st K Kenyon wife of said Charles H.
Kenyon in consideration of the sum paid aforesaid
do hereby release and forever quitclaim unto this
said grantor his heirs and assigns, all my right
of dower in and to the aforementioned premises. In
Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety one.
Signed sealed and delivered
In presence of
Leonie R. Loomis
Solomon Lucas
Jos. J. Nichols
Joseph E. Dauphinee
Charles H Kenyon L.S.
Emeline St K Kenyon L.S.
Hannah D. Kenyon L.S.
Susan E Kenyon L.S.
State of Rhode Island & County of Washington Sc
This Recorded this 13th day of June AD 1891 Hannah D.
Kenyon and Susan E Kenyon personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them signed to be
their free and voluntarily act and deed. Joseph E. Dauphinee
Notary Public
State of Connecticut, ss New London County ss
On March 2nd in said County on the Sixth day of June AD
1891 personally appeared before me the above named Charles H. Kenyon
and acknowledged the above seal by him signed to be his free
and voluntary act and deed. Solomon Lucas L.S.
Notary Public
Received for record June 13.1891 at Joseph E. P.M.
and released by R George E Lowe Clerk
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