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Excerpt from The Early Records of the Town of Providence, Vol. 14: Being the First Book for the Recording of Deeds and Called Deed Book No. I Resolved, That Horatio Rogers, George M. Carpenter, and Edward Field, are hereby appointed Record Commissioners, who shall serve without compensa tion, for the purpose of collecting and printing the early records Of the town of Providence, and said commissioners are hereby authorized to expend the sum of one thousand dollars for the collecting and printing said records, said sum to be charged to the appropriation for printing. The book which is herewith presented in type is designated as Deed Book No. And the original is in the custody of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of Providence. It is the first volume which was particularly used for the entry of land evidences and similar documents, and marks a period when the growth of the town demanded a more systematic method of keeping its records. In printing this volume the Commissioners have departed somewhat from the form and appearance of the previous volumes of the Early Records, although outwardly it is in size the same. The large amount of original material herein perpetuated in type, consisting mostly of deeds, made it necessary, in order to avoid undue bulk, to include more matter upon a page, and to reduce the weight though not the quality of the paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.