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and seal this 21 day of April in the year of our
lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight.
Signed and sealed in presence of
George Cross. Daniel H. Babcock L.S.
Charles H. Babcock L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
On Charlestown on the 21 day of
April AD 1898 before me personally appeared Daniel
H. Babcock and Charles H. Babcock to me known, and
known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument
and they severally acknowledged said instrument by them
executed to be their free act and deed,
George Cross.
Notary Public L.S.
Received for record May 20 1898 at 10 o'clock AM
and recorded by George Cross Town Clerk
I the undersigned having received full payment and
satisfaction of the witness mortgage executed in the records of
land evidence in the town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island
in mortgage Book 1993 at page 477C hereby cancel and discharge the said
deed of covenant to and with the party making and paying payment that I have
had a mortgage on said mortgage [illegible] which whereas they
have paid the sum of one hundred and ten dollars this day of May 20 1898
Witness Alfred Moore L.S. Rebecca Miller L.S.
Received May 4 1899 by George Cross Town Clerk
I know All men by these presents, that I Richard
J. Lecone of Richmond in the County of Washington and State
of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration
of the sum of one (1) dollar cotton and other good and
valuable considerations to me paid by William Sloves of
Charlestown in the above named county and State hereafter
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 tract of
marsh or beach land situated in the town of Charlestown and
the above named county and State containing by estimation
one half (1/2) of an acre be the same more or less which is bounded
as follows, beginning at the Northwest corner of said tract of
"Charlestown Pond" (so called) and running Easterly or a
straight line with two (2) stone posts which it comes to the
first stone post which is near said pond, thence still Easterly
forty one (41) feet to the second stone post bounded on the South
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