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2/10/1863 · DEED · book 8 page 424 doc 11098

From NICHOLS JOHN C life, NICHOLS PHEBE A life
To HOLDEN CHARLES life
Consideration Two Hundred a
Premises quarter of an acre · lot with a dwelling house (East Greenwich, Lord Holt Brook)

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The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1863 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES; HOLDEN MARTHA → WEBSTER WILLIAM P; HOLLOWAY ELISHA J · book 8 p 448
▶ 1864 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES; HOLDEN MARTHA; NICHOLS ALPHEUS → CARD HENRY C · book 8 p 484
▶ 1867 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES; HOLDEN MARTHA → HYDE THEOPHILUS R · book 9 p 158
▶ 1868 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES; HOLDEN MARTHA → GREEN HENRY S; GREEN JASON P · book 9 p 274
▶ 1871 · LEASE · HOLDEN CHARLES → LEWIS JACOB · book 10 p 31
▶ 1872 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES → CARD HENRY C · book 9 p 163
▶ 1876 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → MICHAEL BRISTER C · book 9 p 422
▶ 1877 · DEED · CARD GREEN; TUCKER WILLIAM F; ENNIS VARNUM; LANPHEAR WILLIAM C; LANPHE → · book 10 p 326
▶ 1877 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → TUCKER WELCOME C · book 9 p 392
▶ 1878 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → WEBSTER BETHEWEL; WEBSTER FIDELIA F · book 9 p 478
▶ 1882 · DEED · BURDICK EMMA J; BURDICK ALBERT; HOLDEN CHARLES → WEEDEN JOHN E · book 11 p 36
▶ 1884 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES → REYNOLDS JESSE B · book 11 p 234
▶ 1890 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES → CROSS CHARLES · book 12 p 188

The instrument's own words

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227 Know all men by these presents that John C. Nichols of East Greenwich in the county of Kent and state of Rhode Island aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand and fifty dollars to me paid by Charles Watson legacies of Charles Watson in the town of Washington and state of Connecticut the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge have conveyed released and forever quit claimed by these presents to the same release and forever release and forever quit claim unto the said Charles Watson his heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest property claim and amount which I have now or may have right light to have or claim in and to a certain lot of land lying within said East Greenwich bounded by eastern quarter of an acre one rod wide with a dwelling house thereon situated and bounded on the North by the highway on the East by Sarah L. [illegible] and Edward Davis parcel on the West by Lord Holt Brook and Northwest by [illegible] bounded running at right angles to the highway the said lot containing [illegible] by George A. Stanton employee to Saint Sanders Davis being hereby had herte that if any particular easements of the same. Do hereby and hold the same with all those rights privileges and appurtenances thereof and thereunto appertaining to the said Charles Watson and his heirs their heirs and assigns forever And I the aforementioned said C. Nichols covenant myself and my heirs executors and administrators all and lawful heirs the said Charles Watson his heirs and assigns that I and I will warrant and defend the aforementioned lot to the said Charles Watson his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming the same by title or consideration provided paid and maintained of the same release and quit claim to any right of heirs of aforesaid premises In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Signed Sealed and delivered John C. Nichols L.S. Phebe A Nichols L.S. Thos Weaver pp proxy witness Revenue stamps $0.50 Kent sc East Greenwich in said Kent County on this fifth day of February 1833 before me personally appeared John C. Nichols and deliveredly the preceding instrument to be his free act and voluntary act and deed handed and delivered thereunto offered Before me Wm Weaver Justice of the Peace Entered for taxes S.L. 10th 1868 at 2 o'clock P.M. and Recorded by Charles Coone C. Clerk

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