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282 Know all men by these presents
That one, Nelson H. Walcott and Sellie Lo Walcott
his wife both of the City and County of Providence in
the State of Rhode Island in consideration of the
sum of ten dollars to us paid by During L. Knowles
of said city & Providence the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby remise release and forever
quit claim unto the said During L. Knowles his
heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest
property claims demand whatever we may now or
hereafter have of right may have to leave or claim in and to
a certain lot of land of beach land situated at Dumfounding
in Cohasset town in said State of Rhode Island containing
approximately five hundred and thirty (530) square feet bounded at
following at a stake at the beach bank
but the said lot is corner off of G. W. Lake and
Lilliam M. Scott thence Northly bounded Westly
by said Narragansett bay seventy (70) feet thence Eastly
at right angle 2 feet folly (80) feet thence Southly
at right angle Liberty (70) feet in such a bend
through Westly Northly along said beach bank to return to
(80) feet to the point of beginning bounded Northly
by land now or previously of Phillip's De Inman etc
but easterly by land of the beach granite with a right
of way to pass and repass with lemons or outfit
over the same of said Phillip De Inman both to this
tract and a right to take water from the
well or said spring during their lives over across his
Easterly forty (40) feet of a certain lot of land
conveyed to these presents by deed from Herbert B.
Parsons dated April 19th 1908 and recorded in
the Land records of said Cohasset in Book 108
page 191 and 192 and the Twenty ten (10) feet
of beachfront lot of land conveyed to said Nelson H
Walcott by deed from Willard L DeInman dated
November 19th 1908 and to be recorded herewith
To have and to hold the same with all the
rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto
appertaining unto and use of them the said
Knowles his heirs and assigns forever
and we the aforementioned Nelson H Walcott
and Sellie Lo Walcott for ourselves and for our
heirs executors and administrators do covenant
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with the said Dwney Lo Haner his heirs and assigns That
we will warrant and defend the aforesaid described premises
unto the said Dwney Lo Haner his heirs and assigns from
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming by, through or under us.
Of the testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this 11th day of November in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and eighty
Signed and sealed in presence of
George h. Bray Nelson K. Whitehall L.S.
Nellie Lo Haner L.S.
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
Certificate of Acknowledgment
On this Providence on the 11th day of November be
St r 1788 before me personally appeared Nelson K
Whitehall and Nellie Lo Haner to me known and
known me to be the parties executing the foregoing
instrument and they acknowledged upon their instrument
by them executed to be their free act and deed
George h. Bray J. Nichols, Justice
received for record charges 2s 6d 1788 at S. Smith's hand
and recorded by George Colbore Town Clerk
To All People to whom these presents shall come,
I the Josephine M Palmer, widow of Heber M Palmer of
the Town of Charlestown, and Walter G Rodman and
Igna M Rodman his wife in her right of woman of
Smith Kingston, Washington County, and State of
Rhode Island in the State of Rhode Island’s
Send Greetings Know you that we the under
signed Josephine M Palmer, Walter G Rodman and Igna
M Rodman hereafter called the Conveyors, for
and in good consideration of the sum of three hundred
and fifty dollars to be paid before the
ensealing hereof well and truly paid by William
G Lorcas and Caleb R. Hyde both of Charlestown
County and State aforesaid receipt whereof ore