The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12589

1/10/1834 · DEED · book 6 page 298 doc 12589

From CROSS NATHANIEL L life
To CROSS PELEG life, CROSS JOHN C life
Consideration one Thousand Dollars
Premises Four thousand acres · woods rate fields, and forests of said West Plot (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED TAYLOR JOSEPH W; TAYLOR JOB

Back — where this land came from

unknown
“being suitably to the Books of Evidence entered Dated March 1st 1832 in Charlestown”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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Forward — where this land went

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

▶ 1851 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 7 p 437

The instrument's own words

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298 KNOW All men by these Presents that I, Nathaniel S. Croft of Study in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island for and in Consideration of the sum of one Thousand Dollars to me in hand paid before the Execu- tion and Delivery hereof by Philip Croft of Stephens and in the County of Bristol State of Rhode Island, and John S. Croft of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island, that the Right title and Interest of Sale hereby absolute belonging to me the seventh fully satisfied etc continued and find do hereby, Renounce Release and forever Quitclaim unto the said Philip Croft and John S. Croft their heirs and assigns forever All the Right Title absolute which I have now or might hereafter have in and unto certain Estate lying and being in Charlestown containing Four thousand acres the Same more or less and to contain all my Right in all the Buildings which may be thereunto belonging etc Philip Croft of Study Charlestown Demure possessed of Affluence being suitably to the Books of Evidence entered Dated March 1st 1832 in Charlestown for a particular description of the said area of the woods rate fields, and forests of said West Plot etc Do No 499 and to No 110 all the said Plateau and Quitclaimed Premises together with all the said buildings fixtures and Appurtenances unto the said Philip Croft and John S. Croft their heirs and assigns forever, to this deed and Agreement their Heirs and assigns forever, to this deed and Agreement And I the said Nathaniel S. Croft for me my Heirs executors and administrators do hereby Covenant with the said Philip Croft and John S. Croft that I have made in due form a simple deed of Conveyance for all of the aforesaid Plots of Land or Lot’s to the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Charlestown this 29 day of December 1839. Nath'l S. Croft (ss) Executed in presence of Elizabeth B. Kendal (seal) State of Rhode Island ss Samuel Stanton Washington Recorded Jan 10 1840 by Samuel Stanton J. Cl. C.C.I Charlestown on this sixteen day above written Certificate apparently approved the above Instrument Nathaniel S. Croft and acknowledged the above instrument by him executed to be his free voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein or expressed Samuel Stanton Jur. of First KNOW All Men by these Presents that I Joshua Clarke Administrator on the Estate of Jesse Comstock late of Charlestown in the County of Washington len in the State of Rhode Island Deceased By virtue of the Authority vested in me by the Superior Judicial Court of the said State at their belated term for and acting of Washington 1838, and furthermore to the nomination of the Court of Probate of said State of Charlestown, and for and in Consideration of the sum of One Hundred and fifty Dollars to me paid by Sale and Purchase from the State town upon the highest Bidder at a publick Auction of the State house by conveyance held on the 13 day of December 1839 the Right title and Interest of the hereby acknowledge, Do hereby Convey, in my name and capacity George George Sellard convey unto the said Sold and bought Roy Taylor their Heirs and assigns all the Right title and Interest which the said Jesse Comstock had in and to a certain parcel of Land at the time of his Death lying in Charlestown aforesaid unto which the first part with part of a dwelling house and other Buildings There Containing

The page as recorded

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