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9/16/1814 · DEED · book 5 page 206 doc 11942

From HOXSEY JOSEPH JR
To HOXSEY WILLIAM A life
Consideration One Hundred dollars
Premises twelve acres · a certain tract of land (Charlestown, Lotters stone, Joseph Stanton's land)
Also on this page: RELEASE WOOD JOHN L EST

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

◀ 1814 · DEED · HOXSEY JOSEPH → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 247
◀ 1812 · MORTGAGE · BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER 2ND → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 109
◀ 1811 · DEED · HOXSEY JOSEPH; HOXSEY HANNAH → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 28
◀ 1806 · DEED · WILLCOX EDWARD; ALLEN JAMES → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 4 p 454
◀ 1805 · DEED · HOXSEY GIDEON → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 4 p 445
◀ 1801 · DEED · PERRY JOHN; PERRY MERIBAH → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 4 p 312
◀ 1801 · AGREEMENT · PERRY JOHN; HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR; PERRY JOHN · book 4 p 314
◀ 1801 · DEED · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; HARRY AUGUSTUS; HARRY JOHN; SEKETOR JOHN; P → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 4 p 332
◀ 1801 · DEED · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; HARRY AUGUSTUS; HARRY JOHN; SEKETOR JOHN; N → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR · book 4 p 337

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

Joseph Stanton Jr

The instrument's own words

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206 To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that I Joseph Howes jr of Charlestown in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island Freeman, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars to me in hand paid by for the Use of the concealing hereof, and the consideration thereof witness a manor piece well and truly paid by me to William Lawry of the said Charlestown Freeman the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hereby convey and transfer fully clearly contains of part and parcel of my own grounds beginning at the south east corner of a certain fence and by this present truly full and absolutely grant grant all them all in full use and trust conveyed and confirmed unto the said William Howes his heirs executors administrators assigns forever a certain piece of ground a certain tract of land situated in the town of Charlestown containing twelve acres be the same more or less and on the North part of my land but down from a corner commonly called the Lotters stone westward to round copper beech tree running at the north East corner to my farm then south east on land of Joseph Stanton to the true land bounded south to the true line of the town of south Towns to a rope stone fence easterly on land of the grantor by the road all east to return to Joseph Stanton's land there north east by the fence then north to the first lot and lot of the first measure north To have and to hold to the said and to execute and promise none more as full absolute free and convenient and commodities of the same belonging any one of the above described land but Reserved to me Joseph Howes his heirs and assigns the right and liberty to use and enjoy the use of the fish both of both common and private grant and hold the said William Howes his heirs and assigns that before the leasing hereof I promise to run title and clear all the way before any person before them claiming any right or suggest any title for the same and if any person shall disturb the said William in any simple way or any the said good or bad land in the said house and Dispose the same in manner of payment and that the aforesaid William Howes his heirs and assigns safely and free and undisturbed and unmolested and the rights granted to the said grantor value and statutes etc. including funding and costs judgments executions summons warrants and statute determinations etc. is forbidden Howes from following any trust restriction or commissioners to command and engage the said grantor and promising further more to the said William Howes his heirs and assigns as against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whatsoever found thereafter and covenant there and defend. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal the day and month of the year first written anno 1793. Signed sealed and delivered in Presence Joseph Howes jr. L.S. Elihu Copps Jo E. Howes Note of Pablo. Return’d f.C. Washington for Court at Charlestown on the Day and first to be seen written Anno 1796 I personally came before me knowing to be the signor and sealer of the preceding instrument and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed had then Before Elihu Copps J.P.

The page as recorded

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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.