The instrument's own words
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for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators, do covenant
with the said Wanita M. Carpenter his heirs and assigns, that I will
warrant and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said Wanita
M. Carpenter his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims
and demands of all persons claiming by title process or adverse use.
And I, Mary E. Briggs sole heir of the late John G. Briggs in consideration
of the sum paid as aforesaid do hereby release and forever quitclaim
unto the said Wanita M. Carpenter his heirs and assigns all my
right of way in and to the aforementioned premises.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this 16th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and twenty.
Signed and sealed in presence of
George R. Bourn's
John G. Briggs L.S.
Mary E. Briggs L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Kent
On said town of Warwick on the 16th day of April A.D. 1920
before me personally appeared John G. Briggs and Mary E. Briggs
husband and wife to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument and they formally
acknowledged said instrument by their execution to be their
free act and deed.
George R. Bourn's
Notary Public
Received for record August 18 1920 at 4:30 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George A. Cross Town Clerk
I KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I Wanita R.
Carpenter, of North Kingstown in the County of Washington, in
the State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor in
consideration of Ten Dollars ($10) paid to me by Thomas E. Colton,
of the City of Providence in said State of Rhode Island, hereinafter
called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do
hereby give, grant, bargain sell and convey unto the said Grantee,
and his heirs and assigns forever, a certain piece of land located
situated in hereinafter in said State containing four acres more
or less and bounded as follows: on the South by Celebration Road,
on the East partly by said road and partly by land of James
Burrasford and wife on the South by a highway and on the
West by land of the heirs of Timothy S. Moore, or whoever
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otherwise bounded, being the same premises conveyed to this grantor
by deed of John D. Briggs, dated April 16th 1870 to wit received herewith.
To Morse and to hold, the aforementioned premises, with all the
privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the
use of the said grantor, and his heirs and assigns forever.
And I, the said grantor, do hereby for myself and for my heirs,
executors and administrators, covenant with the said grantee and
his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple
of the said granted premises; that the same are free from all
incumbrances that I have good right full power and lawful
authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid
That the said grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by these
premises at all times, hereafter peaceably and quietly have and
enjoy the said premises, and that I, the said grantor will, and
my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and
defend the same to the said grantee and his heirs and assigns
forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
And for the consideration aforesaid I, Dellie M. Carpenter,
wife of the said Newton R. Carpenter do hereby release all my
right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said
grantee and his heirs and assigns forever.
In our witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals
this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand
and nine hundred and twenty.
Signed and sealed in presence of Newton R. Carpenter L.S.
Patrick H. Cunning Dellie M. Carpenter L.S.
(signed) Patrick H. Cunning
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
On thisteenth on the 18th day of August A.D.
1920 before me personally appeared the within named Newton R.
Carpenter, his wife, both to me known and known by me to be
the parties executing the foregoing instrument and severally
acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free
act and deed Patrick H. Cunning
(signed) Aubrey Belknap
Received for record August 18th 1920 at 4-45 o'clock P.M.
and allowed by George L. Connor Town Clerk
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