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5/25/1741 · DEED · book 1 page 51 doc 13545

From UNDERWOOD JOHN life
To LEWIS DAVID life
Consideration thirty five pounds Current Law Money of New England
Premises none · A piece of land bounded by white oaks and a pine tree (Charlestown, Rhode Island)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

▶ 1778 · AGREEMENT · LEWIS DAVID; KINYON NATHAN → KINYON NATHAN; LEWIS DAVID · book 3 p 277

Bounded by

Job Babcock · Stephen Remington

The instrument's own words

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Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Joseph [illegible] do sell and convey unto [illegible] from my Tenement situated in the Town of [illegible] in the Colony of Rhode Island, present at as my [illegible] given out of my [illegible] by Indenture of the [illegible] day of [illegible] thirty five pounds of current Money Money of Province of Rhode Island to me [illegible] before the Sealing & Delivery laws of y^e good Laws of y^e town of [illegible] in y^e Colony above named and premises the parcel of Land of [illegible] by a [illegible] and bounded by [illegible] [illegible] and bounded by [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and by that [illegible] [illegible] on the west bound [illegible] & [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] & absolutely give and grant [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Confirm with the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] his heirs and assigns for ever a certain piece of Land lying & being, in y^e said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and bounded as follows namely on the North by [illegible] [illegible] and on the East by the [illegible] on the North South by [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and on the West from the beginning at a white oak marked with a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to a white oak marked with a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and from thence South east [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] pole by a white oak marked with a [illegible] and from thence South and by some [illegible] [illegible] pole by a white oak marked with a [illegible] and from thence North west [illegible] to a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] pole to a pine tree on a [illegible] and from thence to the first [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] with several others to have and to hold all the above [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] for ever the whole with all [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Company or their successors under [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the [illegible] of the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and in the [illegible] year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George [illegible] [illegible] I [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] I [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the witness [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] before me one of his Majesties [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to be his act & deed on the [illegible] of the [illegible] with [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] John Hill [illegible] [illegible] Recorded above [illegible] this 25th day of May AD 1741 by Wm [illegible]

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.