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4/17/1784 · DEED · book 3 page 404 doc 13046

From CHAMPLIN ROBERT life, CHAMPLIN GEORGE life, CHAMPLIN RUTH life, CHAMPLIN LYDIA life
To CHAMPLIN CHRIS life
Consideration two hundred and thirty Seven Pounds lawful Money
Premises two tracts or parcels of land with buildings (S Clarke, counting load)

Back — where this land came from

heir Jesse Champlin
“Jesse Champlin late of Charlestown... Deceased intestate possessed of”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma
will Col. Chris Champion
“by virtue of the last Will & Testament of Col. Chris Champion”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma
heir Jesse Champlin
“as Brother and Heirs of the said Jesse Deceased intestate”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1780 · DEED · CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER; CHAMPLIN GEORGE; CHAMPLIN JESSE; CHAMPLIN ASA → CHAMPLIN ROBERT · book 3 p 318
◀ 1780 · DEED · CHAMPLIN ROBERT; CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER; CHAMPLIN JESSE; CHAMPLIN ASA → CHAMPLIN GEORGE · book 3 p 316

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. 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.

The instrument's own words

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404 One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three. 1783. Signed Sealed & Delivered { Asa Champlin in Presence of { Elizabeth Jenkins Peleg Croft { Mary Thompson Simon Babcock { Hannah Thompson { Thos Thompson Washington County ss at Charlestown the twenty Day of October 1783 { Saml Thompson { Mary Champlin Personally appeared the above Subscribers & acknowledged the above and foregoing Instrument to be their act and Deed hands and seals thereunto affixed before me Peleg Croft J. Peace Recorded April 17th 1784 by me John Champlin clk To all People to whom these Presents shall Come, We George Champlin & Robert Champlin both of Newport in the County of Newport Merchants Gent. knowing Moreover ye that we the said George Cham- plin & Robert Champlin for and in consideration of the sum of two hun- dred and thirty Seven Pounds lawful Money, to Each of us in hand & lawfully Paid by Chris Champlin of said Newport Effet, the receipt whereof is by the said George and Robert and each of us do hereby acknowledge and that we are and each of us are henceforth fully content satisfied and Paid Have given granted bargain sell hereby conveyed & cession veyed and confirmed and we the said George Champlin & Robert Champlin Do by This present Each for our self and our heirs fully freely and absolutely Given Grant bargain sell alien convey convey and confirm unto the Chris Champlin his Heirs and assigns forever All that undi- vided Part portion right Title Interest claim and Demand of mine in and to the Real Estate set which Jesse Champlin late of Charlestown in the County [carried over]
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405 County of Washington Gentleman Deceased intestate possessed of spread of which the said Jesse in his Life Time held or might have held or lawfully force and virtue of the last Will & Testament of Col. Chris Champion late of Charlestown Deceased and which aforesaid Real Estate consists of two tracts or Parcels of Land with the Buildings provided and all the belonging and appurtenances lying in S Clarke appurtenances to the same belonging and aforesaid lying in S Clarke known to be Northward & South ward of the counting load and which aforesaid Lands premises and appurtenances were in the Life Time of the sd Jesse held as tenancy in common with the Grantee To Have and to hold all that our undivided part portion might still in trust claim and demand of in and the aforesaid Lands premises and appurtenances with the common rights and privileges to the same belonging to my Heirs appertaining unto him the said Chris Champion his heirs and assigns forever and to his and theirs to be proper use benefit and be held forever — or fully amply and effectually to all intents purposes and contrarians What ever as we our heirs might own or could have held the Same of this Present Deeds of bargain and sale had not been made and executed And we the said George Champion & Robert Champlin as for our selves and each of us our Executors and administrators & heirs whereby of them Covenant Grant agree to and with Husband Christopher his Heirs & assigns that of and before the executing of these Presents We are seized of two ninth parts of the said Real Estate which said Jesse died seized of in eight and by virtue of the last Will and Testament of said Christopher Deceased as Brother and Heirs of the said Jesse Deceased intestate and that the Christopher shall forever hereafter have had and hoped the same two ninths parts of all said Lands premises before herein Granted or intended to be Granted unto him the said Christopher Champion his Heirs unbroken forever against the claims of any Person or persons who was claim to hold the Same and that the said Lands premises and appurtenances are free and clear of any kind of encumbrances of any nature kind or greatly
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406 What ever saving and excepting the right of Power which hannah the late wife of the said john may challenge in the premises. — And ruth the wife of $\text{g}$ George and Lydia the wife of $\text{r}$ Robert for and in consider ation of the sum aforesaid, and the further sum of Five Shillings to each station of them Paid Have and by these Presents do fully freely and absolutely apornote acquit and discharge the above stated and premises from any claim or right of Power which they might ought or could hereafter Claim or Challenge in the same. In Witness whereof the said George Champlin & Ruth his wife, Robert Champlin & Lydia his wife have set their Hands & Seals this 8th Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty three. 1783 John Willbour Robert Lellebridge Geo. Champlin L.S. Robt. Champlin L.S. Ruth Champlin L.S. Lydia Champlin L.S. Newport September 8th 1783. — Personally appeared Geo. Champlin, Ruth his wife and Robert Champlin, Lydia his wife and Solemnly acknowledged the above written instrument to be their Voluntary Act and deed. Before Robert Lellebridge J. Peace. The recorded in April 27 1784. by me John Champlin T. R. k Whereas Joseph Johnson Late of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island Ye Yeoman deceased, did in by his Last will and Testament, Give his four sons namely john Job Jared and Elisha, a Certain Tract of land, lying in $\text{a}$ [illegible] John, containing about sixty Eight acres, with a dwelling house thereon to be equally divided between them according to quantity & Quality which will was Duly Proved and executed Copied over

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.