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Know all men by these presents, That I Benjamin W. Johnson
of South Kingstown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, in consideration
of the sum of ten dollars to me paid by Thomas Arnold of the said town in said county
and that the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I hereby remise, release and
forever quitclaim with his heirs and assigns
forever all the right title interest whatever for their claim and demand to the said I have
house or right might have to house, to trees, in sum, and to the undersigned i.e. half part
of a certain land of rock land situated in said town and described as follows, on the South partly by sec. Pond and partly by land of
estate of Frank W. Moore, on the East by the road lead and land of Isaac G.
Dumble and others, on the North bound of persons T. Jenkins and others
land the highway and on the West bound of land of estate of Horace G. Johnson and
and partly by land of Rhode Island, noted as boundary Thomas Arnold,
I do hereby release to the said Arnold, with all rights, privileges and appurtenances
thereunto appertaining, and out of the premises the said Thomas Arnold
his heirs and assigns forever, and of the aforesaid named Benjamin W. Johnson
for myself and for my heirs representing and considering this composition
with the said Thomas Arnold, his heirs and assigns, that said Arnold will not
and defend the aforementioned premises unto the said Thomas Arnold or his
heirs and assigns forever, against the said claims and demands of all
persons, including himself, his successors in law, and S. Johnson W. Johnson wife of
the said Benjamin W. Johnson in several times of the said premises as aforesaid,
do hereby declare that from quiet settlement with the said Thomas Arnold, his
heirs and assigns, all the right might of theirs in and to the aforesaid premises
For Testimony whereof we have set our hands and seals and with their
seals signed and sealed on the year of our Lord one thousand and ninety four
dated ninety four
P. 30 Sincerely yours
Signed and sealed in the presence of
George A. Wood
- Benjamin W. Johnson (seal)
- Susan W. Johnson (seal)
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
I, In September on the 18th day of October AD, 1925, before me
personally appeared Benjamin W. Johnson and Susan W. Johnson to me
known bound them my line to be the parties executing the foregoing
instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed
to be their act and deed,
George A. Wood
W. Stanley Gable
Received for record Oct 18th 1925 at 2-45 p.m. Clerk of Ct.
and recorded by H. George G. Stone, Town clerk.