The instrument's own words
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State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington ss
In Charlestown this 17 day of November
AD 1892 Bradley Stephens personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to
be his free and voluntary act and deed.
Charllee Cross
Justice of the Peace
Received for record Jan 15 1897 at 10.30 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Colwell Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I
Warren own Merritt of Charlestown, County of Washington
State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of five
Dollars to me paid by Lydia F Saunders of Hopkinton in
said county and state the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged
do hereby remise release and forever quitclaim unto her
the said Lydia F Saunders her heirs and assigns forever,
all the right title interest property claim and demand,
which I now have, or of right ought to have or claim in
and to all and singular those several tracts of land
conveyed to me by said Lydia F Saunders by deed
bearing date September 1st 1887 and recorded in Land
Evidences of Charlestown R.I. in Book No. 18 page 479,
reference hereto being had and made for a more particular
description. To have and to hold the same,
with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto
appertaining, unto and to the use of her the said Lydia F
Saunders her heirs and assigns forever. And I, the
aforenamed Warren own Merritt for myself and for my heirs,
Executors and administrators, do covenant with the said
Lydia F Saunders her heirs and assigns, that I will
warrant and defend the aforesaid premises unto the
said Lydia F Saunders her heirs and assigns, forever, against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming
the same through a root of title under me. And I Emma B
Merritt wife of the said Warren own Merritt in consideration
of the sum herein aforesaid do hereby release and forever
quitclaim unto the said Lydia F Saunders her heirs
and assigns, all my right of dower in and to the
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aforedescribed premises,
In Testimony whereof, we
have hereunto set our hands and seals this second day of February
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one
Signed and sealed in presence of
Enoch V. Vars
Alvah L. Bundick
Warren L. Merritt L.S.
Emma E. Merritt L.S.
(Registered)
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington,
On Tuesday the second day of February A.D.
1901 before me personally appeared Warren L. Merritt and
Emma E. Merritt his wife to me known, and known by me
to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they
acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their
free act and deed.
Enoch V. Vars
Notary Public
Received for record Feb 4, 1901 at 1 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George Colves Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That We Daniel
J. Babcock and Charles H. Babcock, of Hopkinton, County of
Washington State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantors,
for and in consideration of the sum of one Hundred and Fifty dollars
well and truly paid by Peter P. Palmer of Hopkinton aforesaid the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, by these present do give, grant,
bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto the said Peter P. Palmer his
heirs and assigns forever, a certain lot of land situated at
Dumontstown in the town of Johnston in said Washington County,
with a dwelling house and other improvements thereon, bounded as
follows, beginning at the Northwest corner of the lot hereby conveyed
at a stake in the ground about 75 feet South from the line through
and on the East side of the highway nearly opposite and of
Stephen Rookhouse, thence westerly in a line parallel with a
line drawn in continuation of Elizabeth Palmer's line 105 feet
thence Southerly on a line 110 feet from the highway 90 feet
thence Westerly to the highway to a point 90 feet South from the
first mentioned bound, thence Southerly along the highway
90 feet to the point of beginning or however otherwise bounded,
to have and to hold the said granted and bargained
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