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or proof or acknowledgement is genuine; and I certify, That the said
instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this
State.
In testimony whereof, I have here set my hand
and affixed the seal of said town at Pawtucket the seventeenth day
of May AD 1896. Henry M. Taft Clerk
of S.L.
Received for record May 20 1896 at 11 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George La Toise Town Clerk
Know all Men by these Presents That I
David la Tofft of Richmond in the County of Washington
State of Rhode Island, in consideration of the sum of ten
dollars to one hand by deed Jl White of the City and County
of Providence R.I. the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
have received, released and forever quitclaimed, and by these
presents do remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said
Joel W White his heirs and assigns forever, all the right
title, interest property claim and demand, to which I more
hence or of right ought to have, or claim, in and to a certain
piece of land called saticated in Lebanon in said Washington
County, bounded and described as follows, beginning at
a stake at the edge of the bank at the Southeast corner of
said lot and at the Southeast corner of land of heirs of
J. Atmeny, thence westerly fifty feet and thence northerly
about one hundred feet, thence Easterly fifty feet
and thence southerly about one hundred feet to the place
of beginning bounding northerly by land of James A.
Watson, Easterly by land of heirs of J. Atmeny, southerly
by the Sea and westerly by land of the grantor,
however otherwise bounded, I have and to hold
the same, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances
thereto appertaining to the said Joel W. White his heirs
and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned David la Tofft for
myself and on my heirs, executors and administrators do
covenant with the said Joel W White his heirs and assigns
That I will warrant and defend the aforesaid described premises
unto the said Joel W White his heirs and assigns forever,
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming the same, through or under me. And I
Caroline A. la Tofft wife of the said David L. in consi
of the sum aforesaid do hereby release and fore
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quieting unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns,
all my right of Possession to and to the aforesaid premises
In Testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this 17 day of August in the year of our Lord
one Thousand eight hundred and ninety four
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Leonora C. Roberts
State of Rhode Island ye
County of Washington ss
In Charles town this 17th day of August
A.D. 1894 David S. Gifford personally appeared before
me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by
him signed to be his free act and deed seal
Leonora C. Roberts
Notary Public
Received for record May 24, 1896 at 2.30 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by Leonora C. Roberts Town Clerk
Know All Men by these Presents That I
Lose W. Andrews of Charlestown in the County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum
of one dollar to me paid by Mary E. Shepard of said
Charlestown, sole heiress of George W. Shepard, the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge, have remised, released and forever
quitclaimed, and by these presents do remise, release and
forever quitclaim unto the said Mary E. Shepard her heirs
and assigns forever, all the right title interest property,
claim and demand nowich I or my heirs have, in or right ought
to have, or claim, in and to a certain farm situated in said
Charlestown and known as the Haston farm, bounded and
described as follows, on the North by the lands of Polly Baker
and Duncan Field, easterly by land of Joshua Allen and the
highway, Southerly by land formerly the heirs of Adelaide
Lubin, Duncan Field and land of Matilda Perley, Westerly
by brook which separates it from land of Matilda Perley containing
by estimation one hundred acres more or less,
To have and to hold the same, with all the rights
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