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12/21/1776 · DEED · book 3 page 242 doc 12917

From COHIES ELIZABETH life, COHIES THOMAS life
To PERRY JACOB life
Consideration fifteen Shannid Silver Dollars
Premises one Quarter Part · one quarter part of a New Hill and quarter part of one acre (Indian Road, Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE COLE HELEN S EST; KENWORTHY WILLIAM J ES

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⛔ 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. Colonial deeds rarely cite book and page; the land is followed by its bounds and its abutters from here. 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

James Tuthills

The instrument's own words

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122 beginning at a Stake near Common jumpy Oak poll from there east one degree North East one Hundred seventy feet to a peaked Rock on a Hill from there North one Degree East one Hundred & sixty feet to a long Cane set in the Ground and way mark from there North forty five Degree East one Hundred and Seventy five feet to a heap of Stones from there West one degree North East one Hundred & a few feet from there East one Degree East forty feet, which pole is on or near the Edge of the spring Point and from there by a road line till it meets the mountain Road’s boundary on east side by mark cuts the Indian road’s crossing it being the same Land which is bounded by the side William Vachon as may appear by a Deed bearing Date the Twenty fifth part of July degree 1776. I do name and will do all the acts to the use of Robt. the Executor known & Demand which the said Charles Brown had transferred to me by the said William Vachon by the above mentioned Deed and reference thereunto by his hand seal’d and delivered unto him the said William Vachon m Vachon his Heirs and Assigns all in the said Charles’s Deeds, Entries, Property claim and Demand which he now has or might ought or could have in the lands of Dennis’s property claim and Demand which he now has or might ought or could have in the lands of Dennis’s property claim and and More Over More over if the said Charles Brown is unable to make receipt absolute her Right Power and Power of cause of in and unto the above land bound Property suits from the said William Vachon, his Heirs & Assigns. If Mr. Will’s wary of the said Charles Brown and More his Heirs have desired to have for their Lands and Seals the Executd Deed of Cotton Among Domo 17--6 Charles Brown Signed sealed delivered In Presence of Edward Palmer John Elliot Din the 22nd day of July 17--6 The Angle County’s S.S. I, Charles Brown and laws Brown of the Wif. both personally appeared before me the subscriber Just’s peace Day of Oct 17--7 and I did acknowledge the above written written Instrument to be their ordinary Act and Deed, to transfer Lands and Real there unto and Sign me John S. Off’r Just’s the Peace To all People to whom these Presents have some Greeting. Know ye that I Thomas Brown on Indian Hill of Charlestown, in Newport County and Create and Create for for and in Consideration of Ellen Brown’s Limited Deed to me and and and and fully paid by her’s Mother and now residing in Quidnessh in said County and Cotton called and known by the Name of Jane Poor the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and know and now grant and convey fully settled contracted and land both remunerated released and forever quit claimed and by these Presents to me myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators fully and absolutely remise release claim and forever quit claim unto Jane Poor of Charlestown, in the County and Town aforesaid and in her full and complete Possession person and person, and to her Heirs and Assigns forever all such Right Title Title the Interest and Demand whatsoever as I Thomas Brown either had or ought to have of the one Quarter Part of a New Hill part and known by the Name of the Indian Road’s itself in Charlestown, and the quarter part of one Acre of and which Said Mill standeth on. T
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248 To have and to hold all the before mentioned released Premises together with all the Yeards, Privileges and Appurtenances thereunto belonging within the said said Town even his heirs and Assigns for ever; so that the said Tomas Cobbs or none of his or any Person or Persons whatever now or then or in his or their Names shall or shall by any Right or Claim whatsoever howsoever now after have claim challenge or demand any Right Title Option or Interest of in or to the Premises but shall be wholly released and barred by these presents And the said Tomas Cobbs for myself my heirs and relinquish the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the said Nick Day his heirs and Assigns for ever to his and their own proper use in Manner as if Same had been against his heirs and Assigns and every of them their heirs Merchants and for further by these presents Said Elizabeth wife of the said Tomas Cobbs acts for the Confirmation of the foregoing covenants and her right of Dower and curtesy of in and within before beginning Conveyance to him the said Nick Day his heirs and Assigns forever As My Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals the Date Same December and in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of George the Third Signed sealed and delivereded in the presence of S. H. S. L. S. Phil. Goggins Jp Tomas Cobbs Seal Elizabeth Cobbs Seal Jp Charlestown in Bristol County Sc. The foregoing Deed was reminded the 21st day of Sept 1776 to Companion & Wife At the Date first written within the said Elizabeth wife and acknowledged her in the Statement used to be her Act and Deed’s and Seal affixed the Day and Date first written within Before me Phil Goggins Jp Justice of the Peace To all People to whom these Present may come I Don Candell of Charlestown in Bristol County in the Colony of Rhode Island send Greeting Knowage That I the s Don Candell for the Consideration of One Hundred and Twenty Pounds Lawfull money to me in hand before the Execution hereof well and truly paid by Samuel Cuffe of the same Town German the which I do hereby acknowledge and say of their fully satisfied contented and paid to the charge of and every part thereof do hereby convey resign and relinquish the Samuel Cuffe his heirs Executors Admins Successors whoever by this Majesty have given granted bargained sold aliened conveyed and conformed and by this Majesty Decretes july fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell aliena colona convey and confirm unto the s Samuel Cuffe his heirs and Assigns forever a certain Tract or Parcel of Land lying in s Charlestown town containing by Estimation One Hundred and fifty one acres the be same more or less buttered and bound as followed Easterly partly Land of James Fringers and partly by Land the Grantor sold to Phil Goggins

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