1802 DEED book 4 p 365

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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

◀ 1787 · DEED · KINYON MARY; KINYON LODOWICK → AUSTIN JOSHUA · book 3 p 517

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

The instrument's own words

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265 Know all Men by these presents that I Joshua Austin Resident of Charlestown in the County of Washington in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Yeoman for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Dollars to him in hand paid by Zephaniah Williams in Charlestown in the County aforesaid and the said Yeoman am by these presents forever do remise release and quit claim all right title and interest and convenience and herediments of every part and parcel of these my right and by conveyance the right of Zephaniah Williams his heirs and successors and assigns forever by these presents Grant giving Bargain and selling all conveyed conveyed and confirmed by these presents Grant give bargain sell and convey unto the said the said Zephaniah Williams his heirs and successors giving a certain Broad lot of land situate and lying in Charlestown containing about Ten Acres the West line and width of the lot being on the Highway of the County and lot line their land bounded on Joshua Austin mostly and on the East line with Zephaniah Williams land Tobias and told that the said grants and premises together with all the appurtenances thereunto and pertaining to the same belonging in any manner of situation lying within the said Zephaniah Williams his heirs and assigns forever and to the said Joshua Austin formerly says his successors and administrators forever Bargain and convey forever and to the said said Zephaniah Williams his heirs and assigns for that before this letter already had from a said part of the land in the said Bargain and premises and houses in my right of right hereunto further promise to Bargain give sell and convey and bargain and premises in manner as above said that the said Zephaniah Williams his heirs and assigns shall have and may from time to time and at all times hereafter by force and virtue and these presents irrevocably and sundry without let hinder delay oppress forfeit and convey of Bargain and premises with all the appurtenances thereunto for Clear and free and fully and shortly acquired inherited devised and conveyed from all manner of other gifts grants bargains sale leases and all other remembrances whatsoever Course or manner and thankfully Justice wife of the said Joshua Austin both by these presents further all right better above described premises In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this Twenty Third Day of January AD 1802 Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presence of Daniel Edwards Sally Gordon Joshua Austin Thankfull [illegible] for Austin [seal] Charlestown January 22 Day 1802 Personally appeared the within Named Joshua Austin And Acknowledged the above Instrument to be his Voluntary Act and Deed hand and Seal Before Daniel Edwards Justice Peace This Deed was Recorded April 22 1802 By Peleg Cross Jr. Town Clerk

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.