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KNOW all men by these presents that we Joseph No. Griffin
and Abby G. Griffin wife of said Joseph Inhabitants of Charlestown in the County
of Washington State of Rhode Island. In consideration of the
Sum of Seven Hundred Dollars to us on hand paid by Anne Davis and
Melinda y Wife and Sophia Blake their Mother residents in the County of Maturen
ton the species whereof we do hereby acknowledge do hereby grant
release and forever give claim unto the said Anne Davis and
Sophia Blake their heirs and assigns forever all those messuage Tenure and
Solicits in and on the premises aforesaid lands of hers being Three
tenths of an acre undivided only the Part Fenced in on the North by the Town of Arte
mending on the South by the Path Fenced in on the East by the Heirs of Robert Cole
man the North on the Land of Thomas Stanton or on the bastion land of
Samuel Stanton on the Twenty acre lot or the Heirs of Samuel Norton and
on the West by George W. Ponds fence Meaning hereon to convey our
rights in the Two Seventy lay leading from the South end of said Tract
through lands of said Stanton to the road.
To have and to hold the same to the said Anne Davis and
Sophia Blake their heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Chat
township aforesaid this 18th day of March 1814 &c
In presence of
John Stanton
Henry Blake
Joseph No. Griffin L.S.
Abby G. Griffin L.S.
[illegible] L.S.
Washington Co.
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Charlestown March 18th 1814 personally came before me the before these
named Joseph No Griffin and acknowledged the writing deed by him
Signed to be his free and voluntary act but at the same time present was
Abby G Griffin wife of said Joseph being examined separate and said
from her said husband and having read the instrument explained to her
she acknowledged the same to be her free and voluntary act from
which she did not wish to retract
Received March 18th 1814 &c
By me J. Stanton Sec.
John Stanton Town Solicitor
Whereas Augustus J. Lewis of Charlestown Rhode Island by mortgage
dated September 11th 1792 conveyed to Esther & Peter of Charlestown a
Tract of land in said Charlestown in which he had containing one hund
red and thirty acres more or less according Prospective Indenture’s provided however
that said Augustus J. Lewis of aforementioned conveyed the said Lands to Sophia No Lewis
now of Narragansett and said Esther by writing agreed to extend the agency
of redemption on said Mortgage to said Joseph
Now therefore the said Esther R. Peter for a valuable consideration
paid me by Joseph No Lewis do hereby release and discharge
the Mortgage aforesaid inside the body hereby release and forever
claim unto the said Joseph No Lewis his heirs and assigns giving all my right title and
Interest in and to the tract of lands aforesaid by mortgage or otherwise
The premises being now in the actual possession of the tenant or lessee of said
Joseph reference having had the mortgage and suffered for further
discription with are sufficient answers.
To have and hold the same to said Lewis his heirs and assigns
forever.
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