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362 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 year 1799, Send Greeting:
Whereas, the Taxpayers of said town of Charlestown at their annual
financial town meeting duly notified and held on the 18th day
of April 1799, 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 1799, and pursuant
to said vote an assessment was made on the 18th day of August 1799 in accordance with
said vote, and the tax levied in said town was 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, William Robinson
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 1799 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 clerks office at the Store of G. &
Brown and Son and the last at divers other places in
said town, and also in the Newport Daily Courier, a notice posted in
publicks in said County and shuts, for more
than twenty days announcing to public, and on the 28th day
of October 1799 at ten oclock AM, I proceeded to sell at all
public auction the premises aforesaid, and Edwin Foster
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 be paid by said
Edwin Foster the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge,
I do hereby sell and convey unto the said Edwin Foster
his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and any
interest which the said William Robinson deceased estate,
had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said
tax with all the appurtenances there belonging situate
and bounded and described as follows (being marked and)
containing by estimation two acres more or less bounded
northerly on land of Benjamin Flannell, Easterly on
partly on land of R. S. Allen and A. Bullock partly on the
channel leading to Charlestown beach and westerly on land
of the heirs of Obadiah Brown on the East side of said channel
on the South by land formerly owned by Joseph Hoplove
of 2 and John Foster and on the West by the land of Waffle King
To have and to hold the same to the said Edwin Foster
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