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Trail: 12112

7/30/1818 · DEED · book 5 page 381 doc 12112

From KINYON MARTHA
To GRIFFIN STEPHEN F life
Consideration Twentytwo Dollars and fifty cents
Premises House and land bounded by Stephen H Griffin and the first road (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED STANTON JOSEPH

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

◀ 1806 · LEASE · GREEN BROWNING; KINYON MARTHA → KINYON MARTHA; GREEN BROWNING · book 4 p 455
◀ 1783 · LEASE · KINYON ELISHA → KINYON DANIEL; KINYON MARTHA · book 3 p 348

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.

The instrument's own words

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381 Know all Men by these Presents, That I Martha Kenyon of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island wi[th]in o[f] consideration of the Summe of Twenty two Dollars and fifty cents paid me by Stephen H Griffin of the Same Charlestown Bargainer. The Receipt of which I do hereby Acknowledge do hereby remise Release and power Quit claim unto the sd Stephen H Griffin his heirs and Assigns forever, all my right title and Interest That I now have in and write unto one Certain Parcel House and the Land thereon the Same Named, situate in Charlestown, and is bounded follows Northly, Northly, and Eastly by the Land Stephen H Griffin and Southly on the Highway or first road, it starts And to North west and Southly and bounded Between with the foresaids and Appurtenances thereunto to him the said Stephen H Griffin his heirs and Assigns forever to do his and their use and Bedef Power Forever And I the said Martha Kenyon for my Heirs Executors and Administrators, do Covenant with the said Stephen H Griffin his heirs and Assigns to release and forever Guarantee unto the said Stephen H Griffin his heirs and Assigns forever all the above described and Befaids Premises For Which Witness I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this 15th day of June in the year 1818 Martha Kenyon [signature] Executed in presence of Joseph Stanton Jr Marlborough Stanton, Recorded July 7 1818 per Samuel Stanton Town Clerk Washington for Charlestown July 7th 1818 -- Personally appeared the Within Named Martha Kenyon and Acknowledged the preceding and foregoing Instrument to be her Voluntary act and deed; with her hand and seal Arounds Approvd before Robt J Thompson Justice of the peace To All People to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting Etc Know ye That whereas I the Subscriber have Bought a Certain Part or Parcel of Land lying in the Town of Charlestown County of Washington & State of Rhode Island, on the 15th day march 1810 of Joseph Stanton Esqr of Charlestown continuing Southerly some Acre the some more or less & lying North of the first road, Reference being had to the deed of conveyance for a particular des cription of the bounds thereof. And whereas death and disasters have since oc curred affecting the Right of a driftway across sd Land for the privilege of passing and Repassing for the use of the Christopher Babcock farm in Quannutuck and North View etc. That I Nicholas Clarke the purchaser of sd Land and Subscriber to these Presents for the Consideration of Twenty Dollars to

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.