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Know all men that we the revd Sen I Thistle [illegible] being 15 October 1806 certify of the said Sen I Thistle
of Charlestown in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island resident to
of Charlestown in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island resident to
Blacks and Woman's Estate lists of the said Master Mason G. Clarks and Opposite Mr Miller
of westerly in said county of Washington for the purpose of an inventory of divisors of the
Estate that follow to be set at law of our late Father Thomas Miller deceased
late of state of Massachusetts deceased and in consideration of the sum of Three
hundred and sixty Seven Dollars evidenced by paper’s Master Marian Miller of the county
of in said county of Washington also set at law of our late Grand Child’s the said
Edward Miller deceased except that we accept that sum in our duly authorized as her
by vendors released and forever quit claim all our rights with said Marian Miller to her heir
and assigns forever The following Her reported’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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State of Rhode Island ss. In the town of North Kingstown March the 7, 1845
Washington Co. Personally appeared the within named Ann S. Hardin
Mason & Clarke and Joseph M. Miller and acknowledged, the foregoing
instrument to be Theirs free and clear act and deed, and at the same time, came Nancy
R. B. Hardin wife of the said Ann S. Hardin and Thomas Blake wife of the
said Mason & Clarke having appointed proxy and acting and apart from Their
said Husband and having said instrument delivered to themly we
acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed from which they are
not wish to retract.
Before me George De Vore Justice of the Peace.
Recorded March 11th 1845
By John Stanton Cl. Rec.
Know all men that I Ann S. Hardin & Nancy R. B. Hardin wife of the said
Ann S. Hardin and Thomas Blake wife of the said Hardin, in the County of Washington
prov and State of Rhode Island for the purpose of a division of the Estate that
pile to be as law at one of our late Grand Father Edward Blake late of said
North Kingstown deceased and in consideration of the Sum of one Thousand One
hundred and thirty four dollars to be paid by Thomas Blake wife of Mason &
Blake & Clarke and Joseph M. Miller citizens in party of North Kingstown also and
law and heirs Children of the said Edward Blake deceasedly. This receipt
attest we do hereby acknowledge to be fully and ample, lawful and general quit
claim and deed from Husband & wife’s hand to Edward Blake and Joseph M. Miller then
their Adjudged attorney forever the following real estate in parcels of land lying the town
by the name of the Town of Blake estate in the town of Charlestown aforesaid and
containing four hundred and fifty acres more or less the same more or less bounded as
follows On the North by the land of George De Vore justice of the Peace Mason & Clarke
old fence, and on the South by some wood and brush and by Edward Blake. The 2nd lot bounded on the
more or the Southern lot bounded, in said town of Charlestown containing fifty four acres
be the same more or less and for a more particular description of said lot sufficient to
be, by the Land of Edward Blake. The third lot bounded in the town of Charlestown containing fifty two acres
by those names estate in said town of Charlestown being off twenty two acres to the
more or less Bounded on the North by Benjamin Thompson and Albert Blake in Clarke’s
on the North by Albert Blake and Benjamin Blake on the East by Benjamin Foster’s
on the North widen Billlings and South by George Benjamin Thompson in which is meant to be
included the Pullover water lot & billings. The 4th lot bounded on the North by the name of the bounded lot
of Blake in said town of Charlestown and bounding between said on the North more or
less and bounded on the South by the sea, on the East by Mary Day on the North of the
lot and bounded on the West by the sea. The 5th lot bounded on the North by the
name of Thomas cedar lot bounded in the town of Charlestown aforesaid containing by
the name of the Northmore over lot situated in the town of Charlestown aforesaid containing by
stomach on the East the same bounded North bounded, Eastward bounding and westerly by land
of Edward Blake and westerly partly by Edward bounded and partly by Henry Blake. The 6th
lot bounded by the name of the Southern Rhode Island bounded in the town of Charlestown
containing eighty three acres more or less Bounded on the North by Benjamin Thompson
on the East by the Bogman lot on the North of the East by Baptist Blake and on the West
by the land of Nathan & Samuel bounded land. The lot bounded by the name of the
Rhode lot situated in the Town of Rhode Island County of Washington aforesaid bounded
on the North by the south by the road leading to the town Down east on the East bounded by
from Campbelly Rogers to upper town on the West by David Blake and on the South
by some particular dividing line more or less marked fence property as the same
per the search of the same bounded by John Miller survey in the year 1813 and together
with Christopher S. and Sydney Syson were a Committee appointed by the Court
of Common Pleas for the County of Washington to make partition of the Estate of the
said Edward Blake of Charlestown deceased, between Ann Billings
The purpose of Cordington Billings and the Children of Joseph Miller 2nd late
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