The instrument's own words
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338 Know All men by these Presents That I Hattie T.
Kennyon of Charlestown in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island have made constituted and appointed
and by these presents do make constitute and appoint
Charles J. Greene of Richmond in said county my true
and lawful attorney for me and in my name place and
stead to represent me in the settlement of the estate of my
grandmother Fanny Benedict late of said Charlestown
deceased and to take charge of my right title and interest
in and to a certain farm in tract of land situated in said
Charlestown consisting by estimation one hundred and
ten acres bounded Northerly on a highway Each party
on land of George W. Kennyon and partly on land of
John Benedict Southward party on land of said John
Benedict and partly on land of William Hiscox and
Easterly on the Pawcatuck River or however bounded
excepting a lot of land included in said boundaries
belonging to said George W. Kennyon meaning to describe
all the real estate of which said Fanny Benedict died
seized and possessed with a dwelling house and other
improvement thereon my interest being one undivided
third part thereof And I do hereby authorize my said
attorney to sell and dispose of my said right and interest
therein and execute and deliver proper deeds thereof to
make partition either by agreement arbitration or court
and I shall deem best to purchase the rights and
interest of the other owners therein at such prices as he
shall deem just or expedient and in the premises one to
represent before all offices magistrates courts and
persons and to make and execute all due receipts and
acquittances and also to receive and recover all moneys
and property real and personal which may belong due
me from any and all persons and offices for the
settlement of said estate and partition of said real
estate either by metes and bounds or by rate or by purchase
as aforesaid giving and granting unto my said attorney
full power and authority to do and perform all and
every act and thing whatsoever requires and necessary to
be done in and about the premises as fully to all
intents and purposes as I might do if personally
present with full power of substitution and revocation
hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said
attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof In witness whereof
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389:
I have hereunto set my hand and seal the second day of
April in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven,
Sealed and delivered
in Presence of
Nathan B. Lewis
Warren McHale
Hattie T. Kenyon L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ss
Be it known That on the second day of April
one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven before me
Nathan B. Lewis a Notary Public in and for the County
and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn dwelling
in the town of South Kingstown in said County personally
came and appeared Hattie T. Kenyon of Charlestown in
said County to me personally known and known by me
to be the same person described in, and who executed the
above Power of Attorney and acknowledged the above Power
of Attorney to be her free act and deed.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed my seal of office the day and year
last above written.
Nathan B. Lewis
Notary Public L.S.
Recorded for record May 1st 1897 at 4 oclock P.M.
and returned by George Glover Town Clerk
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