The instrument's own words
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Whereas Abel F. Stanton and Susan N. Stanton his wife
both of Westerly in the county of Washington and State of
Rhode Island, and diver other persons brought a bill in
equity against George H. Noyes and Alice M. Noyes his wife
both of Charlestown in said county of Washington, and diver other
persons in said bill in equity mentioned which said bill in
equity was filed in the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court in said state of Rhode Island, within and for the county
of Washington on the 18th day of March AD 1902 and is entitled
Equity No 249, Abel F. Stanton et al vs George H.
Noyes et al etc, for partition of certain real estate in
said bill described, and whereas upon hearing and consideration
thereof the said court on the 14th day of April AD 1902 adjudged
that the complainants were entitled to partition of the premises
described in said bill and ordered partition thereof to be
made by the sale of the real estate described in said bill
and a division of the proceeds among the several parties
entitled thereto, and entered a decree accordingly in said
cause and therein appointed Oliver H. Williams of said
Westerly Commissioner to sell the same at public auction
on or before the 21st day of August AD 1902 in such
parcels and at such times as in his discretion should
seem most advisable; and whereas said Oliver H.
Williams, Commissioner as aforesaid, notified the premises
hereinafter described for sale at public auction in
accordance with the provisions of said first mentioned
decree, and on the 14th day of August AD 1902 at
11.15 oclock in the forenoon sold the same at public
auction to Joseph H. Noyes and Cora T. Noyes for the sum of
Seventeen Dollars the said Joseph H. Noyes and
Cora T. Noyes being the highest bidders therefor at said
sale; Now therefore I now attest more by these
presents, That I, the said Oliver H. Williams, Commissioner in
as aforesaid by the virtue of the power and authority vested in
me as aforesaid by the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court and in consideration of the sum of seventeen Dollars
to me paid by said Joseph H. Noyes and Cora T. Noyes the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant
bargain sell assign and convey unto the said Joseph
H. Noyes and Cora T. Noyes their heirs and assigns
forever, a certain lot of woodland known as the
"Paddock Wood Lot" containing by estimation twenty
acres more or less, lying a little northerly from said
Post Road, and bounded westerly on land of Horace
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N. Burdick: Easterly on the Samuel Browning farm; Southerly on
land of Asa T. and Joseph H. Hopkins, and Westerly on land of
Breligs & I. Macleish, being the south part of land described in
said will.
To have and to hold the same together
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof to them the said
Joseph H. Hopkins and Asa T. Hopkins their heirs and assigns
forever, to their use, benefit and behalf.
And I the said Oliver H. Williams, for myself and my
heirs, executors and administrators do covenant with the
said Joseph H. Hopkins and Asa T. Hopkins their heirs and
assigns, that I was and am lawfully empowered to be
its agent aforesaid to make use of the premises, and that in
the sale thereof I have pursued the instructions of said court and
the law in the premises.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 20th day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and two.
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Oliver H. Williams
Commissioner
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington ss
In Westerly in said County on this
20th day of August AD, 1902 personally came before
me, Oliver H. Williams, to me known, and by me known
to be the person of that name described in and who in
his capacity of Commissioner executed the foregoing
instrument and acknowledged the same, by him
executor, to be his free act and deed in his said capacity.
L. A. Morgan
Notary Public
I, Oliver H. Williams of Westerly in the County of
Washington and State of Rhode Island, being duly sworn
on oath before and say, that I am the same person
who executed the foregoing deed and therein described as
commissioner, that I gave notice of the sale of the
premises conveyed in said deed by causing notice
thereof to be published in the Westerly Daily Sun a
public newspaper printed and published in said
Westerly, once a week for more than three consecutive
weeks before the sale thereof to wit: in the sense of this
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newspaper printed and dated respectively July 22 and 29
and August 5th and 12, AD 1902, that the
annexed notices here to attached is a true copy of
the notes published as aforesaid clipped from
one of the aforesaid issues of said newspaper,
that I gave further notice of said sale by
causing likes notices thereof to be posted up in
more than three places in said town form
of Westerly to wit in the Town Clerk's Office,
in the Post Office in Watch Hill in said
Westerly on a bill board on the Watch Hill
Road so called, and at Dunnies Corner
and in divers other places in said Westerly,
and in following places in said Charleston
to wit in the town clerk's office, at dinnering
Road on the premises and in divers others
on the roads leading to and from said premises,
more than one week before the date of said
sale; that the premises described in this deed
were sold in accordance with said notices or
on the premises on the 11th day of August AD
1902 at 11-15 oclock in the forenoon under
my direction said premises being the same
described where the first division of said
notice to people in Rhode and Cla 7.
Island were the highest bidders therefor
at said sale for the sum of Seventeen Dollars
and that I have made the foregoing deed
to complete said sale.
Oliver H. Williams
Subscribed and sworn to at Westerly in said county
on this 20th day of August AD, 1902
Before me la. Mungan Astay Public
Notary
L.S.
Received for record Feb 3d 1903 at 5 oclock P.M.
and recorded by Isaac Colman Tom Clerk
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