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404: State of Rhode Island
County of Washington sc
On Richmond Rd. on the first day
of December A 1827 before me personally appeared Charles
W. Burford and Emma W. Burford to me known and known
by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument
did severally acknowledged said instrument their
recorded it to be their free act and deed.
Herbert E. Loomis
Whitney Robbins L.S.
Received for record Dec 13 1827 at 3 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George Holloway Town Clerk
Know All Men, that I George Colross of
Charlestown R.I. Guardian of the person and estate of
Fanny Armrose of said Charlestown, by virtue of authority
vested in me by the court of probate for said town of
Charlestown above for and in consideration of the sum of
two hundred and twenty five dollars to me paid by Henry
P. Burford of said Charlestown, the highest bidder at a public
auction of the estate hereby conveyed on the 11th day of
November 1827 the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
do hereby grant bargain sell and convey unto said
Henry P. Burford his heirs and assigns forever, all the
right title and interest which said Fanny Armrose had
in and to a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown
containing fifty acres more or less with a dwelling home
thereon, bounded as follows, on the North and East by a
highway, on the South and West by land of James H.
Cotterdell. To have and to hold the aforementioned premises
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto to him said
Henry P. Burford his heirs and assigns forever to him and
their only use, benefit and behoof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 15th day of November 1827
His presence of
George Colross L.S.
meant En dross
Guardians
State of Rhode Island
Washington Sc
In Charlestown this 15 day of
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November 1897 George Belosses to me known and sworn by me to
be the party who executed the foregoing deed, personally appeared
before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him executed
to be his free act and deed, individually and in his capacity as
guardian as aforesaid,
John D. Kenyon
Notary Public
I, George L. Belosses, Guardian of the person and estate of
Fanny Ammons, in morte defunct, and say that four weeks
prior to the day of making sale of the premises described
in the foregoing deed, I caused notices thereof to be published
in the Bristol Daily Sun a public newspaper published
in Bristol R.I. that said notices were published in said
newspaper for four successive weeks prior to the day of sale;
That said sale was on the 10th day of November 1897 at 10
oclock A.M. on said premises made in my presence and
under my direction by Samuel B. Norris an auctioneer of
said East providence, pursuant to the notice of sale aforesaid
a copy whereof is here annexed and is as follows
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And I further depose and say that I am duly qualified
by law to sell said premises as aforesaid and that the
statements made in the aforegoing deed are correct
George L. Belosses
Guardian.
Subscribed and sworn to in East providence R.I. before me this
15th day of November A.D. 1897.
John D. Kenyon
Notary Public
Received for record Dec 14. 1897 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Belosses Town Clerk