The instrument's own words
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54 In testimony whereof have hereunto set our hands and seals
this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety four.
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of John S. Cooney L.S.
Bev. H. Olney att. to p.b.
Wm. Fannie Cooney L.S.
Olive C. Olney att. to p.b.
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington ss
In Hopkinton This third day of November AD
1894 then John S Cooney to me well known personally appears
before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by
his signature to be his free and voluntary act and deed.
Geo. H. Olney
Notary Public
Received for record Nov. 24, 1894 at 10-40 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George G. Corney Town Clerk
To all People to whom these Presents shall come, We
John S Cooney of Hopkinton and John S Cooney of Charlestown
both in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island
hereinafter called the grantors, Send Greetings Know you,
that we the said grantors for and in consideration of the
sum of thirteen Hundred fold (1300) Dollars to us in hand paid
before the ensuing witness of well and truly paid by John the
Macdonald of Charlestown aforesaid, hereinafter called the
grantee the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, and
are therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid, and
thereof and of every part and parcel thereof do renounce
assign and discharge the said grantee his heirs, executors
and administrators forever, by these presents, have given,
granted bargained sold, altered, suffered, conveyed and
confirmed, and by these presents do fully full and absolute
give, grant bargain, sell, alien, suffer, convey and confirm
unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns forever,
Certain tracts or parcels of land situate in Charlestown
aforesaid described and bounded as follows to wit:
The first track contains by estimation three hundred
(300) acres the be same more or less with a dwelling house
barn and other buildings and improvements thereon
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and is bounded as follows to wit: on the North and East by a
highway on the South by land of Benjamin B. Crandall and
the Cedar swamp and on the West by land of George T. Ennis
the second tract is a cedar swamp and contains by estimation
thirty (30) acres be the same more or less and is bounded as follows
to wit Easterly by lands lots of Isaac Collins and Charles A.
Durgin westerly by the Indian Cedar swamp as called
Velvetly by land of George T. Ennis and northerly by the tract
above detailed Excepting and reserving however from said
premises as follows the lumber burnt lot therefore thirty (30)
feet square with the right of passing to and from the same
at all times with teams or otherwise all right which now
exist or shall exist of the Cedar swamp lots on the South of the
premises hereby conveyed to draw cedar and other wood in
the same and to carry away said Cedar and other wood
else the right to run the mills of the grantor who they
now are and to draw logs to and take and carry away
the products thereof and to take and carry off said hills
with the shanties lumber refuse slate cordwood the pipes in
the rivers wells and the stones on said premises which have
been broken out provided however that the right to run
said mills and to carry away the same and the said
chattels shall not extend beyond the term of ten years from
the day of the date hereof 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 grantee his heirs and assigns
forever to his and their only proper use benefit and behalf
forever And we the said grantors for ourselves and for
our heirs executors and administrators do covenant promise
and grant to and with the said grantee his heirs and
assigns that at 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 proper right at good perfect and absolute estate of
inheritance in 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 aforesaid And that the said grantee his
heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and
at all times forever hereafter be force and virtue of these
presents lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold
use occupying possess and enjoy the said demised and
bargained premises with the appurtenances free and
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56 clear, and freely 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, quitclaims, doweries, Judgments, executions and encumbrances
of what name or nature howsoever, that might in any measure
or degree obstruct or make void the present deed as aforesaid.
Furthermore, we the said grantors for
themselves and for their heirs, executors and administrators
do covenant and engage the above demised premises to the
said grantee his heirs and assigns against the lawful
claims or demands of any person or persons whomsoever,
forever to warrant seise and defend by these presents,
And we Olga A. Corey wife of the said John A. Corey and
Mrs Fannie Corey wife of the said John L. Corey in consideration
of the sum paid as aforesaid, do hereby release and forever
quitclaim into the said grantees his heirs and assigns, all
my rights of dower in and to the aforementioned premises.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this fourteenth day of November in the year of our
lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety four AD
1894.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Geo. H. Olney to [illegible] seal
John A. Corey L.S.
The deed is delivered to E.H.
John L. Corey L.S.
Olga A. Corey L.S.
Olive S. Milnor to M.E.C.
Mrs Fannie Corey L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ss
I, H. Hopkinson in said County on this
fourteenth day of November AD 1894 the above named
John A. Corey and John L. Corey to me well known as
the persons they represent themselves to be, personally
appeared before me and then acknowledged the foregoing
instrument by them signed to be their free and voluntary
act and deed
Geo H. Olney
Notary Public
Received for record Nov 24 1894 at 10-40 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Co. Corliss Town Clerk