The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-04
A u G. ITO N
Of the joseph Wilcox Farm.

DY DECREE IN CHANCERY, there will
- be sold at Public Auction, on Wednes
day, the 3lst day of October, 1855, the rea
estate late owned by Joseph Wilcox, o
Charlestown, in the County of Washington
and by him conveyed to his son, Josepl
Dennison Wilcox. by deed dated the 3ls
day Of January, 1858, of two certain tract
or parcels of land, situated in said Charles
town, containing by estimation, forty acres
more or less. The first tract or lot, will
one half Of the dwelling house and Other
buildings thereon, and bounded, beginning
at the Northeast corner of the barn-yard
running Southerly, Easterly and Souther-
ly again, rs the wall now stands, until it
strikes the Salt Pond, bounded South by
said pond, until it comes to land Of Joseph
Gavitt, from thence by said Gavit's land
until it strikes land then mortgaged to
the late Samuel Stanton, from thence East
erly and Northerly by said mortgaged
land, until it strikes pair of bars South
west Of the dwelling house thence running
Northerly, taking the east part Of my
dwelling house from the Northerly 10y
the East side Of the road, to the Northwest
conner of the barn-yard; from thence East
to the first mentioned bounds. The second
tract or lot, reference is hereby had Tor
the boundaries thereof to deed from Jesse
Crandall to said Joseph Wilcox, dated
August 9th, 1924, recorded in said town of
Charl cstOwn.
Also one other tract Of land situated in
Charlestown, aforesaid, on the West side
of said Joseph Willcox's farm. conveyed by n
deed from said Joseph Wilcox to Joseph
d. Wilcox, dated the 9Th day of February,
1858, containing fifteen acres, more or less,
bounded on the West by land of Joseph
Gavitt, on the North by the Post Road, on
the East, as the wall now stands, from the
road to the barn thence round the west
side of the barn-yard and to the house as
the wall now stands; thence to the center
of the well thence through the middle OF
the house to the garden wall thence west
of the West side Of the orchard bars;-
thence Southerly to the spring in the or
chard; thence West to the first mentioned
bounds, meaning to include all the land
then or now covered by mortgage from
said Joseph Wilcox to Samuel Stanton.
Also all the marsh land South of Quon'
necontaug Pond, reference being had tc
the land records Of said Charlestown fol
the boundaries thereof.
The aforesaid Estates will be sold to thu
highest bidder by virtue Of an adjudication
anu uecree Oi tne non. Nupreme Nou'V I"
their August term last in said County o
Washington, sitting in Equity, under the
direction of Elisha II. Potter, appointed {
master for that purpose.
Said Auction will take place on the prem
ises, in said Charlestown, on the las
Wednesday of October, 1855, it being the
3lst day of said month, Mt II o'clock, NJ.
for cash or approved security, payable in
sixty days from said day of sale, or foi
cash on the delivery of the deed. And in
addition to said masters deed, the sait
Joseph Wilcox and said Joseph d. Willco,
are ordered by said decree to execute and
delive to the purchaser of said premises Q
quit-claim deed or deeds Of all their right
title and interest therein.
ELISHA II. POTTER,
Master for this purpose specially appointed
Sept. 22d, 1866. 234