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To All People to whom these presents shall come, J. Albert E.
Brown, collector of taxes for the town of Charlestown in the County of
Washington and State of Rhode Island, for the year 1919, Send Greeting:
Whereas, the Taxpayers of said town of Charlestown at their annual
financial town meeting duly notified and held on the 14th day
of April 1919, voted that a tax of one dollar on each one hundred
dollars valuation of the taxable real estate in said town be
assessed on or before the first day of September 1919, and subsequently
Tot was assessed on the 18th day of August 1919 in accordance with
said vote, and the tax laid in said town fell due and payable the same
with the warrant duly signed attached thereto requiring me to proceed
according to law and collect said tax and place the same in
the town treasury of said town. And whereas, Williams lifelong
deceased estate neglected to pay the tax assessed against it amounting
to fifty cents and in consequence thereof I did on the first day
of October 1920 levy said warrant when a certain tract of land
belonging to said estate situated in said Charlestown and
advertised the same for sale at three public places in said
Charlestown one at the town clerk's office at the Store of G. L.
Brown and Son and the last in diverse other places in
said town, and also in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper
published in Westerly in said County and State, for more
than twenty days preceding the sale, and on the 28th day
of October 1920 at ten o'clock A.M. I proceeded to all at
public auction the premises aforesaid, and Edwin Fisher
of said Charlestown was the highest bidder therefore
Now know all that in consideration of the sum of
seven dollars and seventy nine cents to paid by said
Edwin Fisher the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge,
I do hereby sell and convey unto the said Edwin Fisher
his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and
interest which the said Williams lifelong deceased estate,
had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said
tax with all the appurtenances thereto belonging, while
is bounded and described as follows (being marked and)
containing by estimation two acres more or less bounded
Northerly on land of Benjamin H. Landoll, Easterly [?]
partly on land of R. G. Allen and A. Mullins partly on the
channel leading to Charlestown beach and westerly on land
of the heirs of Sarah Brown on the East side of said channel
on the South by land formerly owned by Joseph Hopson of
2 and John Foster and on the West by land of Whipple King
To have and to hold the same to the said Edwin
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heirs his heirs and assigns forever, subject to the right of redemption
provided by law. And I the said Albert E. Brown collector as
aforesaid do covenant with the said John Heber his heirs and
assigns that I have acquired said property as herein before stated
and have complied with the terms of the law regarding the collection
of taxes.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 20th day of November AD 1923
In presence of
George L. Smith
Albert E. Brown Collector
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
On Charlestown on the 20th day of November AD 1923
before me personally appeared Albert E. Brown collector of taxes
to me known and known to me to be the party against whom the
foregoing instrument was taken, and he acknowledged said instrument
to be his quainted to be his free act and deed in his capacity
as appears
George L. Smith
Notary Public
Received for record December 11 1923 at 10 oclock AM
and recorded by George L. Smith Town Clerk
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To All People to whom these presents shall come, I, Albert
E. Brown, collector of taxes for the town of Charlestown in the County
of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for the years 1716, 1717, 1718, 1719
Send Greeting: Whereas, the taxpayers of said town of
Charlestown at their annual financial town meeting duly notified
and held on the 8th day of April, 1717, the 14th day of April 1718 and
the 10th day of April 1719, voted at each meeting that a tax of one
dollar and one hundred cents dollar valuation of the taxable real
estate in said town be assessed on or before the first day of
September in each of said years and which tax was assessed
on the 13th day of August 1717, the 19th day August 1718 and the 12th day of
August 1719 in accordance with said vote and the tax bills
in due form delivered to me with the warrant duly signed
attached thereto requiring me to proceed according to law and
collect said tax and place the same in the town
treasury of said town. And whereas, Joseph Peters
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