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5/24/1779 · DEED · book 3 page 288 doc 12960

From GREEN AMOS life, GREEN DORCAS life
To BROWNING WILLIAM life
Consideration two hundred and ten Pounds lawful Money
Premises Eleven Acres · Marsh Land bordering Branch Brooklet and William Brownings March path (Charlestown, Branch Brooklet, Bach's Marsh)

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

◀ 1779 · DEED · GREEN JOHN; GREEN MARY → GREEN AMOS · book 3 p 289
◀ 1777 · DEED · KNOWLES DANIEL; KNOWLES ANSTRIS → GREEN AMOS · book 3 p 258
◀ 1767 · DEED · HARVEY JOHN; HARVEY PRISCILLA → GREEN AMOS · book 2 p 346
◀ 1761 · DEED · CLARK SIMEON; CLARK ELISABETH → GREEN AMOS · book 2 p 57
◀ 1740 · DEED · HALLS JAMES; HALLS MARGRET → GREEN AMOS · book 1 p 50

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

▶ 1786 · DEED · BROWNING WILLIAM → BROWNING JOSEPH · book 3 p 508
▶ 1789 · DEED · BROWNING WILLIAM; BROWNING LOIS → BROWNING JOHN · book 3 p 565
▶ 1796 · DEED · BROWNING SARAH; BROWNING WILLIAM → BROWNING STEPHEN · book 4 p 185
▶ 1796 · DEED · BROWNING SARAH; BROWNING WILLIAM → BROWNING STEPHEN · book 4 p 186
▶ 1800 · DEED · BROWNING WILLIAM; BROWNING LOIS → PERRY SAMUEL · book 4 p 286
▶ 1810 · DEED · BROWNING SARAH; BROWNING WILLIAM → STANTON SAMUEL · book 4 p 531
▶ 1825 · DEED · BROWNING SARAH; BROWNING WILLIAM → PERRY GEORGE H M · book 6 p 110

Bounded by

Sam Crofts

The instrument's own words

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283 To all People to whom these Presents shall come, I Amos Green of Charlestown in Kings County and State of Rhode Island Govern[or] an Greeting: Know Ye that I the said Amos Green for and in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred and ten Pounds lawful Money of the County of said State aforesaid paid to me in Hand actually paid by William Browning of said town in the County and State aforesaid from whom I receive the Right whereof I am hereby seised and possessed and am entitled to convey with all of the said aforesaid and containedly and therefore I do grant and agree and do demise the said William Browning of said Townships there, Executor & Administrator of the Goods Estate of said Parts with grant bargain give alien sell convey and confirmed with the said William Browning his heirs and assigns forever a certain Piece of Land lying in and being in Charlestown in the County and State aforesaid containing Eleven Acres of said Marsh Land, be the same more or less Bounded as followeth lying at a Place with some Trees about it bordering by the side of the Rd Branch Brooklet, Eastward, and unto Eastward Southwards by said Branch Brooklet until it comes to William Brownings March path, southly on the said Path and Eastward to an Elm Tree Bach's Marsh side till it comes to the first mentioned Boundary. To have and to hold the said piece of Land or Parcel found to gather with all rivers privileges and Emunencies in the same lying together with the only water privilege Brooklet and Bechet from the said William Browning for their Heirs, Executors, Administrators etc and Assigns forever And that the said Amos Green doth hereby putsell and declare himself to be the true & lawful Owner of all the above granted & bargained Demised or goods right useful and comfortable Habile Body of Water in the same Land to have in my possess good Right full Power and lawful Authority to fish and distill the same in any manner and way that then and every east That then and every east That then at the Breeding and stirring time and so on for perpetuity And that the same are acquit and free and discharged of all Tenures of forever and other suits, Mortgages, Dowries Demises Boundaries whatsoever that can or may in any way attachage defect mode mutter or void this legal Bargain and Sale, or any other thing. And further the said Amos Green with hereby covenant bind and obligate himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators to warrant and defend the above described Premises and every Part thereof unto the said William Browning his Heirs and Assigns forever against the against the lawful Claims and Demands of all and every Person and other whatever And Dorcas Green the Wife of the said Amos Green doth hereby alsoign convey and warn over unto the said William Browning his Heirs and Assigns provide all Right of Power and Owner in the said Marsh although the said Amos Green or Dorcas Green his Wife here with set their Hands and Seals this Ninteenth day of August 1799. Signed Sealed and delivered in Presence of Elizabeth P Phillips Catherine Gardner Kings County Richmond April 19th AD 1799. Presented the 24th today By Jos Longdon Noty The above written Amos Green personally appeared and acknowledged the above Deed to be his Act and Deed Hand and Seal then and there Before me Robert Carter Justice of the Peace

The page as recorded

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