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260 Know all men by these presents that I, Caleb & Elizabeth
Tipton Bull of the city of Providence County of Providence and State of
New York their at law to the estate of William Co Rathbone of Westerly
county of Washington and State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the
Grantor in consideration of ten Dollars and other valuable
considerations to me paid by Josephine S cottlins of the village of
of Westerly Town of Hopkinton county of Washington and State of Rhode
Island hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged to have given foreign grant bargain sell and convey unto
the said Grantee and her heirs and assigns forever one half and
undivided one third interest in and to a certain lot of land
being and being partly in the said Town of Westerly and partly in the
Town of Hopkinton containing by estimation twenty Three acres
and proportion more or less and is bounded and described as
follows beginning at a stone monument at the North
east corner of said lot thence North eighty two degrees East the
fence more distance 6-1/2 chains thence North one degree East 6-7/10
chains thence North sixty eight degree East 3-1/2 chains thence North
four degree east 4-1/2 chains thence North seventy nine degrees
East of the chain thence North seven and one half degrees East
10 chains thence North one degree West 12-1/2 the chains thence
North seventy degree East 4-1/2 chains thence North eighty
degree East 1-1/2 chain thence North seventy four degree East
1 chain thence North sixty four degrees East 2-1/2 chains thence
North seventeen degree West 12-1/2 chains thence North for distance
East 16-1/2 chains to the first mentioned stone bounded Norththerly
by land prove or formerly of the heirs of Cox Westerly but by
how or formerly of E cadwell Williams Southerly by land now or formerly
of the heirs of Nathan Taylor and easterly by land now or formerly
of the heirs of Edward Pelley being the same lot of land conveyed
to said William Co Rathbone by Samuel C M and by deed dated July
29th 1841 and recorded in the land evidence records of the town of
Westerly in book no 32 at page 26 and in the Land Evidence records
of the Town Hopkinton in book No 13 at page 467
To have and to hold the aforementioned premises with all the rights
privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto and to the use of
the said Grantee and her 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 her heirs and assigns that I do
lawfully seised in fee simple of the said granted premises that the same
are free from all encumbrances 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 her heirs and assigns shall by these
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premises at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the
said premises, and that I and the said balthazar mill, and my heirs, executors
and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the said
grantee and her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims
and demands of all persons. I saved for the consideration aforesaid, I, Henry
L Paul do hereby allocate all my right title and interest in and to the said grantor
premises with into the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 3d day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty eight.
Executed in the presence of
Theodore R Schapman
Edith Laylor Paul L.S.
Harry L Paul L.S.
State of New York
County of Greene
On this Rig Ninth on the 1st day of June AD 1926 before me personally
appeared Edith Laylor Paul and Harry L Paul, her husband to me known
and known by me to be the same parties granting the foregoing instrument
and acknowledged said instrument by them executed, to be their free act
and deed.
Theodore R Schapman, Notary Public L.S.
Received for record June 28, 1926 at 10:30 o'clock a.m.
and recorded by George G. Lorres, Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents, that I, Lucy Laylor
Ellis of the town of Bakerton, county of Providence N.H. and William Ellis, land Stuart
of New York, their heir at law of William L Rathborn, late of Northfield, Rhode Island,
deceased, enumerate called the grantor, in consideration of ten dollars and
other valuable considerations to me paid by Josephine L Collins, of Alton,
Washington county and state of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the grantee,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby grant bargain
sell and convey unto the said grantee, and her heirs and assigns forever one
half of an undivided one third interest in and to a certain tract of land
situated in the town of Falmouth, county of Washington and state of Rhode
Island, containing by estimation five acres more or less, bounded and
described as follows: commencing at a market store in the bottom
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