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Trail: 11487

10/15/1800 · DEED · book 4 page 297 doc 11487

From UNDERWOOD SAMUEL ADMINISTRATOR life, KNOWLS THOMAS ESTATE OF life
To SANDERS NATHAN
Consideration one Thousand one Hundred Eighty light Dollars and Sixty one Cents
Premises three Nine Acres and one half of an acre · tract of land in said Quarter (Salt Pond)

Back — where this land came from

probate Supreme Judicial Court
“granted to me full Possession and Lawfull entry... so much of the Real Estate of the said Thomas Knowles Deceased as will for me Pay for his Debts”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

Forward — where this land went

⛔ 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.

Bounded by

Browning · Edward Wilcox · Edward Wilcox · Ludlow Craisdale · Ludlow Hampton

The instrument's own words

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2976. I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th Day of March 1786 Witnesses Benjamin HSPy pr James Hpy Humphrey Taylor Thomas Knowles [seal] Recorded the foregoing Deed Octr 10th 1786 by Pyg Creggy for Town Clerk To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that I Samuel Underwood of South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhodeisland yeoman Administrator to the Estate of Thomas Knowles late of South Kingstown Deceased For and the Consideration of the Sum of one hundred and One hundred Eighty eight Dollars and sixty cents to me in hand before the convening hereby by Nathan Saunders of Johnston in said County of Washington yeoman the receipt whereof I acknowledge myself here with fully satisfied Contented and paid in every Part Therefore of and by these Presents quit and Discharge the said Nathan Saunders has here executed and Determination for convey and Do by Indenture of a Certain of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State held at South Kingstown in the County of Washington on the First day of June 1785 granted to me full Possession and Lawfull entry under the Direction of the Town Council of said South Kingstown thereof and there of so much of the Real Estate of the said Thomas Knowles Deceased as will for me Pay for his Debts and by Virtue whereof the Possession granted to me this Indenture provided Grant bargain and sell convey and Confirm unto the said Nathan Saunders his heirs and assigns forever Certain tract of Land lying and lying in said Quarter containing by Estimation three Nine Acres and one half of an acre in the corner of the same north line is bounded North by the But road Costory in a line descending Southward Land on the Salt Pond Historic in Corner on a line to the said Thomas Knowles I reserve also to me the Grants and grants and Promises to me with all the Privileges and appurtenances and Commodities there of or there to belonging or in any wise appertaining to the same and to his heirs and assigns forever and the I Samuel Underwood and the said Nathan Saunders his heirs and Assigns that and forever the tenement the said Thomas Knowles in his life time was the said Lawfull entry for I granted and Warrant promised that and the same Lawfull entry and Possession of the same in his heirs lasts as a right Estate of inheritance for sole and simple and by Virtue of a Promise granted to me by the I Samuel Underwood Only I Promise Assign and Discharge the Heirs of the said Thomas Knowles from all manner right title interest and property they may or Right & have in the said Granted bargain and Promise further and Do Promise and Discharge and Warrant with the said Nathan Saunders this Here and a bargain that said granted and bargain promised is free and Clear of all human burdens of any Nature whatsoever Do Do by these Presents Warrant Seize or Defend the same against the Lawfull
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290 Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons whatsoever— in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixth Day of October A.D. 1800, Signed Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Oliver Bates Robert Stanton Samuel Greenwood [seal] [illegible] [illegible] Washington October 5th 1800 The robot Samuel Undersigned Depose and Sayeth That a hundred and twenty for the amount of for four [illegible] he has acted and Done with the same hand and seal therefore of the as Administrator Recorded October 18th 1800 by Thy Giles Crosse Clerk Before Me Robert Stanton J.P. Know all Men by this Presents that I joseph Gault Resident Diamond born in Providence of forty Dollars in and paid in hand by John Gault of Christiana Delaware on my full satisfaction do hereby release and remit Discharge the said John Gault his Heirs Servants and Donees forever the right thing in my full satisfaction and Contract have given generally granted and conveyed and by these presents do give grant bargain sell absolutely fully and forever and confirm to the said John Gault his Heirs Servants and Assigns forever One Certain Piece of Lot of Land lying within said Mesh meadow lying East in Charles Street Common by measurement One Acre square but in the dame manner not of Legged as described in Indenture and deed above mentioned as abutting in the Leg of the said Lot and enclosed Commons North from boundary in the water to the East of point of Mesh meadow land therefore boundary to the south abutting at near the West of the water line Boundary to the south boundary of stand and Mark from the boundary in the south abutting in naming of Nathaniel Hosey to the wall abutting in the south on the said boundary in the North boundary in Nathaniel Hosey and Common lands enclosed Land to the East boundary in the East boundary and Common lands limited therefore to the said Samuel [illegible] and to hold the said grant Grantor and Bargainee forever by their heirs and the after successors forever in unrestricted ownership whatever from the said John Gault his Heirs Servants and Assigns to be held absolute for their heirs in full simple forever and the said Joseph Gault for myself my heirs successors to Donees forever covenants and bound himself and his Heirs forever to the said John Gault his Heirs and Assigns we against the lawful Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons whomsoever however forever to Bargain Sale and by these presents I commit all rights of Joseph Gault to the said John Gault for the consideration aforesaid paid of and all the right of Demands and Claims of therefore as and until the above Deeded Premises and until the said John Gault his Heirs and Assigns forever for witness hereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seals this 19th Day of July A.D. 1800 Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presence of witnesses Joseph Gault [seal] John Gault [seal] Benj Hosey Thomas Hodgley The Day and Date above formally aforesaid Joseph Gault the signers and Seals to the above Deed and date Acknowledge the above to be his Voluntary act and Deed have and declare the same before me Benj Hosey Justice Peace Recorded October 18th 1800 by Thy Giles Crosse Clerk

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