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said premises, and that I the said grantor will and my heirs
executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the
same to the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons,
Do In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 12 day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and 79
Signed and sealed in presence of
George Cross
Welcome Le Broker L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
On Westerly on the twelfth day of
August 1879 before me personally appeared Welcome
Le Broker to me known and known by me to be the party
signing the following instrument and he acknowledged
and said instrument, his name specified to be his true act
and deed.
George Le Broker
Johnny Ribble
Received for record August 12, 1879 at 4 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George W. Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these Presents, That
August Leeds a corporation created by law and located in
the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington and
in State of Rhode Island in consideration of Seventy one
Pounds sterling (1820) to it paid by Mr. Russell Baker of
the City of Boston in the county of Suffolk and State of
Massachusetts, Joseph J. Blakely, William P. Buffum and
William P. Sheffield all of the city and county of
Newport and state of Rhode Island, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged said, do hereby give, grant, bargain,
sell and convey over to the said Mr. Russell Baker Joseph
J. Blakely, William P. Buffum and William P. Sheffield as
tenants tenants and not as tenants in common, all
the real estate mentioned by the said corporation in the
said town of Charlestown in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island and together bounded and
described as follows ny Westerly partly on the highway
leading from Pawlet River section to Cross Mills partly
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on the Indian Cedar Swamp, and partly on land of Stephen
Brownell and partly on land of George Briddish deceased,
Southerly partly on land of Stephen Brownell and partly on
land of George Briddish deceased, partly on Cocumpees Pond,
sometimes called Shore Pond and partly on land of
Rogers where the water line stands, Easterly first,
on said Pond, and partly on the land so called and
partly on the Indian Cedar swamp, Northerly partly on
land of Thomas P. Round and partly on the Indian Cedar
Swamp, containing about one hundred and forty acres
more or less, together with the land covered by the waters of
said Pond, within the said boundaries or however otherwise
the same may be bounded, measured or described, for a more
particular description of the herein granted premises reference
may be made to a plat hereunto annexed and hereby made
a part hereof, together with all the personal property on the
above described real estate not especially reserved by vote of
the corporation, To have and to hold the aforesaid
premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging
to the said A. Prescott Baker, Joseph J. Blakesley, William P. Buffum
and William P. Sheffield as joint tenants and not as
tenants in common and their heirs and assigns to them
and their sole and behalf forever, And it the said StringSet
Ledge for itself and its successors and assigns does covenant
with the said A. Prescott Baker, Joseph J. Blakesley, William
P. Buffum and William P. Sheffield and their heirs and
assigns that it lawfully seized in fee simple of the
aforementioned premises; that they are free from all encumbrances
that it has good right to sell and convey the same to the said
A. Prescott Baker, Joseph J. Blakesley, William P. Buffum and
William P. Sheffield and their heirs and assigns forever
as and upward and that it will and its successors and assigns
shall warrant and defend the same to the said A. Prescott
Baker, Joseph J. Blakesley, William P. Buffum and William
P. Sheffield and their heirs and assigns forever, against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
In witness whereof the said StringSet Ledge by Joseph
J. Blakesley its treasurer hereunto lawfully authorized has
hereunto set its hand and seal this fourteenth day of August
in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and ninety nine,
signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Max Leery Revenue Stamp [illegible] by Joseph J. Blakesley L.S.
$2.50 [illegible]
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State of Rhode Island sc
County of Newport SS
In Newport on this fourteenth day of
August AD 1849 then personally appeared the before named Joseph
Blackly to me personally known and known by me to be the
Treasurer of the Winship Lodge, the above named corporation
described in and who executed the before written instrument and
he acknowledged the before written instrument to be the free
act and deed of said Winship Lodge and his own free act and deed
as its Treasurer
before me
[signature]
Hrop Levy
Notary Public
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