FromNEY JOHNlife ToNEY GEORGElife Consideration one hundred and fifty dollars Premises four acres and honey · Land with half of the dwelling house (Charlestown)
Back — where this land came from
This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.
The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land
⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.
The instrument's own words
page 1
444
Know all men by these presents that I John Key of Charlestown
in the County of Washington in Consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars received to my full satisfaction of George Key of said Charlestown
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge Do grant sell and deliver
Convey unto the said George Key his heirs and assigns four acres and honey
Convey unto the said George Key his heirs and assigns four acres and honey
Land with the said Half of the dwelling House thereafter Standing and bounds
as follows Beginning at a stone which is on a line running 4 Rods North 4
on land of the Hunter as of home, which is on a line running 4 Rods North 4
4 Rods South from the center of the chimney to stakes and stones then East
aly and Southly so 2 perches lines running Eastly 20 Rods to stakes and
stones and Eastly on a line connecting the aforesaid Bounds.
[illegible]
To have and to hold the above granted Premises with the privileges and
appurtenances there of to him the said George Key his heirs and assigns forever
And I the said John Key do for myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators
Covenant with the said George Key his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully
seized in fee of the premises that they are free from all Incumbrances and
that I will warrant and defend the same to the said George Key his heirs
and assigns against the lawful Claims of all Persons.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22 day
of August 1838
Witness
Joshua P. Cardo
Dan Henry
John Key (seal)
Washington St. Charlestown August 24th Ao 1838
On this 24 day February Came before me the within
named John Key and acknowledged the within
Instrument to be his free and Voluntary act and Deed
Dan King Just of the peace
Recorded August 25th Ao 1838
by John Stanton Town Clarke
The page as recorded
deed_walker_v1.9_2026-10-10 · the index is the town's own (i2l.uslandrecords.com); transcripts, chains and the assessor's cards are the Perry Machine's reading of it. Where the record we hold runs out, the page says so.