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498 This Agreement made & entered into by & between Elisha
S. Peckham Jr and Elisha S. Peckham dud his wife Amy A.
Peckham all of Charlestown in Washington County State of
Rhode Island. Witnesseth; That the said Elisha S.
Peckham Jr for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns
in consideration of one dollar, to have paid by said Elisha
S. Peckham wife & in further consideration of the conveyance
to him by said Elisha S. Peckham wife of certain real &
personal estate situated in said Charlestown, hereby covenants
with the said Elisha S. Peckham wife & with each of them
that from the day of the date hereof he will actually support
them & each of them, as long as they or either of them shall
live with a kind comfortable home, good farmers living
food, clothing, care, nursing in sickness & medical attendance
when necessary, all in the family of said Elisha S. Peckham
Jr & that the said Elisha S. Peckham wife & each of them
shall at all times be treated with kindness & respect in
his said family, and that he will at his own expense,
provide each of them at his or her decease with a proper
Christian funeral & burial, and that the house conveyed
this day to him by said Elisha S. Peckham shall be kept
solely for the use of said Elisha S. Peckham or wife & for no
in connection only & for the benefit of the real estate this
day conveyed to him by said Elisha S. Peckham wife,
for the due & further fulfillment of this agreement, all
real & personal estate this day conveyed by said Elisha S. Peckham
wife to said Elisha S. Peckham Jr is hereby pledged and as
charge & a lien thereon & on the same thereof is hereby
created, and this agreement is hereby made a part of said
deed lack of consequence which is conditional upon said
fulfillment. In witness whereof the parties have signed
on this 25th day of November AD 1823 their hands & seals
witnesses
Henry H. Lovey Elisha S. Peckham Jr L sd
Enoch N. Vars Elisha S. Peckham L sd
Amy A. Peckham L sd
State of Rhode Island & ce
Washington County ce
this 25th day of November AD 1823
Personally appeared Elisha
S. Peckham Jr and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by
him signed to be his free act and deed
Before me Enoch N. Vars Notary Public
received for vendes Dec 13 1843 at 2:45 o'clock pm
and returned by George Warren from Clerk
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