The instrument's own words
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Berkshire SS. I, Frank H. Leavitt clerk
of the Supreme Judicial Court which is a Court of Record
for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, as hereby
certify, that Edward T. Scully scrivener whose name is
attached to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of
the annexed instrument and Heaton Milton, was at the
time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Notary
Public within and for said Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
duly commissioned and sworn, and residing in said
County of Berkshire, and duly authorized to take the
same, and an officer duly authorized by the laws
of said Commonwealth to take the acknowledgment or
proof of deeds to be recorded therein, and that I am
well acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary
Public, and verily believe that the signature to this
said certificate of acknowledgment is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsfield this 23rd
day of March 1883. Frank H. Leavitt
Clerk.
L.S.
Received for record March 25th 1903 at -2-40 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George B. Cross First Clerk.
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That
I Leadon E. Lohman of New London in the county of
New London and State of Connecticut widow of Joseph
E. Lohman late of Charlestown R.I deceased in consideration
of the sum of five hundred dollars to me paid by John G. Landy
of Warwick county of Kent and State of Rhode Island lawful
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby
remise, release and forever quitclaim unto him the
said John G. Landy his 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 a certain lot of land situated in the
village of Lovells mills in the town of Charlestown
R.I. and containing by estimation two and one
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half (1/2) acre more or less, with a dwelling house, barn and
other buildings thereon standing and bounded as follows Namely
by the East River, Easterly and southeasterly by land of Israel E.
Bullock and Westerly by the mill brook or however the stream is
commonly known or called, being the same premises purporting to
be conveyed by deed from E. Canley to John E. Canley with reference
to other dated the twenty eighth day of January Ao 1802 and
recorded in the records of land evidence in the town of Charlestown
in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island in book
14 page 311, To have and to hold the same with
all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto appertaining
unto and to the use of the said John E. Canley his heirs and
assigns forever. (And I the undersigned E.
Colburn for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant with the said John E. Canley his heirs and assigns
that I will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises
unto the said John E. Canley his heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming by way strength or once me.)
Claiming by way strength or once me.
Do testifying whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal the twenty third day of March in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Isac. K. Kingbury Izadore E. Colburn L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
On Providence on the twenty third day of
March AD 1803 before me personally appeared Izadore
E. Colburn of New London in the county of New London
and State of Connecticut to me known and known by me
one to be the party executing the foregoing instrument
and she acknowledged said instrument by her executed
to be her free act and deed.
Richard M. Jennings
Henry Rutter
Received for record March 26 1803 at 2 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George W. Bone Town Clerk