The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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3/15/1785 · DEED · book 3 page 446 doc 13070

From THOMPSON MARY life, BABCOCK HANNAH life, CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER life, CHAMPLIN JOHN life, CHAMPLIN HANNAH life, CHAMPLIN MARY life, THOMPSON HANNAH life, CHAMPLIN GEORGE life, CHAMPLIN ASA life, BABCOCK SIMON life
To ?
Consideration Three hundred and Twenty Spanish Milled Dollars; six pounds Ten shillings; sixty pounds; forty pounds
Premises Eighteen Lighten Acres · parcel called the Champlin Lot (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1784 · DEED · ROBINSON CHRISTOPHER → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 3 p 437
◀ 1784 · DEED · CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER → CHAMPLIN HANNAH · book 3 p 434
◀ 1780 · DEED · CHAMPLIN ROBERT; CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER; CHAMPLIN JESSE; CHAMPLIN ASA → CHAMPLIN GEORGE · book 3 p 316
◀ 1758 · DEED · CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER → CHAMPLIN JOHN · book 1 p 396
◀ 1784 · DEED · CHAMPLIN HANNAH → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 3 p 398
◀ 1784 · DEED · CHAMPLIN JOHN; CHAMPLIN HANNAH; BABCOCK SIMON; KNOWLES JEREMIAH; KNOWL → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER; CHAMPLIN CHRIS · book 3 p 399
◀ 1784 · DEED · CHAMPLIN MARY; THOMPSON HANNAH; CHAMPLIN ASA; THOMPSON MARY; JENKINS E → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER; CHAMPLIN CHRIS · book 3 p 402
◀ 1774 · DEED · ANTHONY JOHN; ANTHONY SARAH → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 3 p 153
◀ 1769 · DEED · NINEGRETT THOMAS; DANIEL JAMES; SACHEM WILLIAM; PHILLIPS DAVID; HARRY → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 409
◀ 1766 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · NINEGRETT THOMAS → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 255
◀ 1762 · DEED · NINEGRAT THOMAS; NINEGRAT MARY → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 105
◀ 1761 · DEED · NINIGRETT THOMAS → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 41
◀ 1761 · DEED · NINEGREAT THOMAS → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 47
◀ 1760 · DEED · NINIGREAT THOMAS → CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER · book 2 p 3

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.

Bounded by

Joseph Stanton · Joseph Stanton · Christopher Champlin · Christopher Champlin · Rhode Hall · Benjamin Stovey

The instrument's own words

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446. By 3d Highway to 1st Corner mentioned Corner To Have & To Hold of said Grants and Bargained promised quit claim of Appurtenances Hereto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto him Joseph Jordan little his Heirs and Assigns forever Furthermore more i’d said grantor declare my will my Heirs Successors &c do covenant and agree of above named Grantee and his heirs of above named Joseph Jordan little his Heirs and Assigns against all lawful Claims and demands of any Person or Persons whatsoever forever to warrant and secure (and defend by the same) And also Mary Stanton ye wife of the Within Named Joseph Jordan doth give & surrender all her Right of dower of lands and powers of Thirds of one 4 acres within said Grant and Premises unto the Within Named Joseph Jordan little his Heirs and Assigns forever as to her Confirmation Whereof we Joseph Stanton and Mary Stanton have hereunto set their hand and seal ye Twenty Ninth day of May in ye Eight year of Our Independence and in ye year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Eighty four Signed Sealed & Delivered in ye presence of Jog Gardner Abigail Gardner Joseph Stanton [seal] Mary Stanton [seal] Washington County Co for the county appeared the subscriber Joseph Stanton 8 day of June 1784 and acknowledged the above and within Instrument to be his free act and Deed land and real Robert Gardiner Justice of Peace Recd & Recorded this Deed this 16th Day of March 1785 by me Ben Champlin Clrk To all People to whom these Presents shall come That whereas Christopher Champlin of Champlin ville part of Newport in the County of Newport [illegible] Andrea Claise of Smithfield in the County of Providence granten real Property of tenement by way George Champlin his Attorney Elizabeth of Charles town in the County of Washington for Christopher Champlin in the Juncture of Washington [illegible] Rhonalds the wife Thomas Thompson of Berkley [illegible] in the County of Washington [illegible] Thomas the wife John Thompson of Berkley [illegible] in the wife Samuel Townsend of Johnston County [illegible] wife John Stephens of Johnston county furnished ourselves of said Johnston County [illegible] himself his said Granting these County [illegible] Roberty of Johnston county [illegible] his wife the said Granting these ye that the aforesaid said Grantors for and in Consideration of the sum of the sum of [illegible] said and Twenty Spanish milled Dollars to them in hand paid by said Christopher Champlin of said Berkley [illegible] granten the real title of they do hereby acknowledge and that they the therewith fully content and free Slave and clear by these presents do grant bargain sell all above said convey convey and confirm with the said Presentee aforesaid his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece or parcel of Land with the Heritages thereon Standing called the Champlin Lot of ye Town of Charlestown diverse parcels of Stubble corn ye is sited and bounded as follows 8 [illegible] Eighteen Lighten Acres more or less (or per) beginning at the South west corner to Joseph Stanton land by the boundary Line from said Ben Champlin by said Boundary Line to from the Running South thirty Degree ninety five Rods from thence South Southern Degree West one hundred and thirty eight eighty odd Rods to a Great rock fours by a large fours four hundred from thence Running by said boundary fifty forty rods to a Blacky Oak Marked which is on water lake Christopher Champlin North West Corner from thence Running South one hundred and And
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447 And also rode to a walnut stump with stones about it from thence a short line to the first Mentioned corner together with the Premises & appurtenances to the same belonging To have and to hold the said Granted & bargained Premises with all the Knowledges ye appurtenances to the same belonging or any void appertaining unto him the said Benjamin Sheffield his Heirs & Assigns forever & to him and his heirs only proper convenient and lawful forever and the said Chastain Champlin George Champlin Abraham Champlin and Robert Champlin by George Champlin his attorney Elizabeth Hutchins advanced the Wife of Chesterton her Soleman Nominate the 15th day of December Two thousand Seven May the 15th of current Townships John Champlin Elizabeth the 15th of formerly Rhode Island the wife of Simon Richards do hereby covenant and agree to give and grant unto the said Benjamin Sheffield his Heirs & Assigns forever that they are the only Owners of the said void Benjamin deceased his heirs and in them Good Right & Title sufficient Authority to sell and Dispose of the lands & premises aforesaid and that by force and virtue of their Premises the void Benjamin Sheffield his Heirs & Assigns shall forever have hys heirs his heirs and Assigns for ever the lands and premises aforesaid as a void Estate in fee Simple free and clear from all Sums burdens of any Statute Vend or quality relatives and that they with forever huffen warrant secure and defend the Premises & appurtenances for a against the lawful claims all Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons whomsoever And Hannah Champlin the wife of said Robert Champlin now known widow late wife of the said Jasper Champlin Deceased for and in Consideration of the sum of six pounds sterling to her done to her hand the Right whereas of the said hereby acknowledged hath and by these Present doth fully freely and Absolutely release assign & surrender up to the said Benjamin Sheffield his Heirs & Assigns forever all her right of Tenure or Claim or Tenure of said lands & Premises the said Lands & Premises with the appurtenances Heretofore Whereof the said Chastons & the said Hannah hath hereunto set their Hands Seals this Sixteenth day of January 1798 Signed Sealed & Delivered? George Champlin [seal] In Presence of Thankful thicken John Channing Nathan Barber George Champlin attorney to Robert Champlin [seal] Ara Champlin [seal] Elizabeth finchens [seal] Sarah Robertson [seal] Ruthannah Robinson [seal] Thos Thompson [seal] Samuel Thompson [seal] Hannah Thompson [seal] Mary Thompson [seal] John Champlin [seal] Jeremiah Knowles [seal] Bsa Champlin Moses Barber
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Witness Samuel Thompson Samuel Thompson Witness's to M. S. Hammond & Stephen Name B. Potter B. Potter jr. N.B. they have hereby testified that the first Boundry denoted in the within Deed is marked with ought to be on the Northwest the South East Corner of piece called the [illegible] as appear by the [illegible] and it marks the north West Corner of the same while it is a Notch as appear by the [illegible] and it marks the south East Corner of the [illegible] at Charlestown in Washington County, the 19th day of February Agy 85 the end of the [illegible] within have happened the southern Dist 4 & the northern [illegible] within [illegible]’s do find that it is a Notch as above said Attest Poly Gove Justice peace Elizabeth Jenkins Isa. [illegible] Samuel Thompson [illegible] James Congdon Charlestown, Washington County, for September the thirteenth day Monday appeared the foregoing subscribers and declared that the foregoing writ in Deed [illegible] to be their Voluntary act and Deed hand and seals therefore offer'd before to be their Voluntary act and Deed hand and seals therefore offer'd before [illegible] Poly Gove Justice Peace Entered and Recorded this [illegible] this 18th day of March 1788 By Samuel Thompson Clrk Know all men by these present that we the Reverend Benjamin and Martha Millard grant [illegible] of every pound’s land and lot by and by [illegible] in town of Charlestown [illegible]ation of every pound’s land and lot by and by [illegible] in town of Charlestown yearn before the [illegible] in [illegible] as remote august and discharge the said [illegible] together before the [illegible] in [illegible] as remote august and discharge the said [illegible] to George Judd the said Benjamin & Martha for their breve presents have given the bargained sold and absolute convey and bargain to by these presents to fully fully and absolutely give Grant bargain will alien convey and [illegible] in all the said Benjamin [illegible] for his time and Assigns for Ever one certain tract or parcel of land state lying and being in [illegible] in [illegible] containing [illegible] of land bounded and bounded on a [illegible] by [illegible] and belonging to [illegible] Hall and Benjamin [illegible] story [illegible] on a [illegible] on a [illegible] Westly on [illegible] [illegible] on the [illegible] on the [illegible] on the [illegible] by an east and east line [illegible] to make up [illegible] and we strictly leave any other or more otherwise depicted to be considered [illegible] To Have and to Hold the said granted the bargained Conveyee with all the Appurtenances privileges and commodities to the same belonging or in any way appertaining to him the said Benjamin [illegible] for his time and Assigns for ever to live to him and there only proper we and Benefit and behalf forever and void the said Reverend Benjamin & Martha Millard for use and our their Decentors and Administrators no covenant from to grant and to with the said Benjamin [illegible] for his time and Assigns that at and before the Ensealing hereof we are the sole with and Law full owners of the above bargainee Conveyee and are lawfully seized and possessed of [illegible] The [illegible] Continued Thankfull Knowles . £18 Simon Sabinche . £16 Hanna’s [illegible] . £17 Mary Champin . £18 Hannah Champin . £19

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