The instrument's own words
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Knuig and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his
voluntary act and deed.
Lehel J. Greene
Notary Public
Received for record May 2nd 1846 at 3-30 oclock P.M. S.S.
and recorded by George blower Town clerk
KNOW All Men by these Presents, That I Annie M.
Sloper of Pittsfield Berkshire County, Massachusetts hereinafter
called the grantor in consideration of fifty five dollars to
one paid by Edward Price of said Pittsfield hereinafter
called the grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged
do hereby give, grant bargain sell and convey unto the
said grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, a certain
hectare of beach land situated in Cohassetown County of Washington
State of Rhode Island containing three square feet bounded
as follows, beginning at the highest part of the beach bank
and at the Souterast corner of land of Warren B. Merritt
thence Easterly along said beach bank 40 feet; thence
Northerly 78 feet; and thence Westerly 40 feet to the North
east corner of land of said Warren B. Merritt thence Northerly
78 feet bounding Westerly by said Merritt to the place of
beginning bounded Northerly Easterly and Southerly by
land now or formerly of Billings D Incomber. Granting
unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns a right to pass
and repass either with horses or on foot over the premises of the
said Billings D Incomber to the beach hereby conveyed, also
a right of way 4 feet wide to pass on foot from said land
to the Ocean, also a right to take water from the well or
in the form of the said Incomber for use on said beach Being
the same premises conveyed to me by Billings D Incomber
by deed dated December 8 1827 and recorded in the Town
Clerks office in Cohassetown Rhode Island in Book 13 Page 62
To have and to hold the aforesaid premises with all the
privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging unto and to
the use of the said grantee and his heirs and assigns
forever. And I the said grantor do hereby for myself
and my heirs executors and administrators covenant
with the said grantee and his heirs and assigns that
I am lawfully seized in the wife of the said grantee
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210. premises: That the same are free from all incumbrances. That
I have good right full power and lawful authority to sell
and convey the same in manner as aforesaid: That the said
grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by these presents
at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy
the said premises and that I the said grantor will with
my heirs executors and administrators shall warrant and
defend the same to the said grantee and his heirs and assigns
forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
And for the consideration aforesaid I Charles H. Sloper
husband of the said Eunice M. Sloper do hereby release all
my right of in an estate by the curtesy in and to the said
granted premises unto the said grantee and his heirs and
assigns forever. In witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our hands and seals this eighteenth day of May in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety six
Signed and sealed a
In presence of
James H. May
Eunice M. Sloper L.S.
Charles H. Sloper L.S.
State of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire
On Pittsfield on the eighteenth day of
May, AD, 1896 before me personally appeared Eunice M.
Sloper to me known and known by me to be the party
executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said
instrument by her executed to be her free act and deed.
James H. May
Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire SS.
I Henry M. Leist Clerk of the Superior Court of said
County of Berkshire the same being a Court of Record, do hereby
certify that James H. May Esquire, whose name is subscribed
to the certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the instrument witnessed
and therein written, was at the time of taking such proof or
acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace within and for said Commonwealth
duly authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to take and
certify the acknowledgment and proof of deeds to be recorded
in this Commonwealth: That he resides in said County: That
I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said
May and verily believe that his signature to and certificate
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