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KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I, Edmound R. Whitmore
of Cohasset, in the town of Washington, and State of Rhode Island in
consideration of the sum of ten dollars and other good and valuable considerations
to me paid by Isaac Lawton of Charlestown aforesaid, the receipt whereof
in hereby acknowledged, as fully remise, release and forever quitclaim
unto him the said Isaac Lawton his heirs and assigns forever, all the
right title, interest, property, claims and demand which I have over, in or
of right now to grant, do claim, in or land to a certain tract or parcel of
land with all the improvements thereon, situated in said town of Cohasset
as bounded and described as follows, beginning at a post at the
north east corner of land of Elias Kelly on the highway leading from
kingstown to Charlestown horses running presently along said highway lan
dla and extending the with of the said land and proceeding north southely sixteen
rods, and continuing the said lot of land, running a fraction of the fence
adapted to form a line in a straight line running south 57 1/2° W and being
the same premises conveyed to this resort, by advance the father buy and settled
day 29 1840, and set in a lot by range of fences and boundaries in south
15 1/2 poles 348 rods.
I do hand and to yield the same, with
all the rt’s, pr’s and appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto
and to the said lot of the said Lawton in perpetuity her heirs and assigns
forever, and I the undersigned E. R. Whitmore for myself and
my heirs reps, assigns and co’s, will and do, covenant with the
said Lawton and his heirs etc that I will warrant
and defend the aforementioned premises unto the said Lawton his heirs
and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and
demands of any person claiming by title or lease or
me.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto my hand and seal
witnessed this 1st day of December in the year of our lord one thousand
nine hundred and seventy.
Signed and sealed in presence of Edmound R. Whitmore L.S.
Fran. H. Patterson
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
On Charlestown on the ninth day of December AD 1798
before me personally appeared Edmound R. Whitmore to me known
and known by me to be the party sealing the foregoing instrument
and he acknowledged said instrument, by his signature recitals to be
his free act and deed.
H. G. Kenyon
Notary Public
Received for record Feb. 3, 1799 at 9 o'clock AM
and returned by George G. Cozzens Town Clerk
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