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6/24/1867 · DEED · book 9 page 216 doc 4136

From KENYON IVA life, KENYON ALMIRA life
To BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST life, HISCOX JOHN S TRUSTEE life
Premises none · a parcel of land with a house for a church (Charlestown)

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

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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. 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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216 To all people to whom these present shall come. I Joe Hungerly of the town of Charlestown County of Washington of State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations - knowing that I the said Joe Hungerly - being a member of the Charlestown branch of the first general south fourth Baptist Church of Christ in Rhode Island and a body politic and incorporated by said name with some new under the protection fast of Elder Christopher Fellowship st for and in consideration of the love and good will I have for said Church to all the members which I intend to further I give a house erected for the convenience of land for the use and benefit of said Church of said town I do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto said Church their trustees or and to said first south fourth Baptist Church of Christ appertaining to said land belonging in order meeting for the purpose of holding an host all the necessary buildings to said branch to him and his successors in office certainly to wit a parcel of land situated in the town of Charlestown on the south side of a highway leading from Penhouse house to the settlement south east and bounded as follows beginning at the south westerly corner of said land on said highway and running Northerly to the real line meets said highway forty feet to the south east wall of the settlement corner of said lot then south easterly line at the real wall Northerly right forty feet to the north easterly line of said lot then south easterly from said highway to the north easterly line of said lot then south easterly direction now to where the road meets said forty feet to the south east line leading them south easterly and Northerly on said highway on a hundred feet and running now to the south of highway running northerly to said real line then to said trustee for the say said land to me and my assigns forever for me and my heirs to use and benefit of said church and by said church and by long as the building for the purpose of the divine gospel for the lifetime of those and by their apostles as then stated by the act of the legislature south Baptist and for used and seen never nor for any longer time nor ever shall any other body of people hold said lot for said use nor for any other purpose whatever but by said church and now the corporation within the lifetime which they stand committed shall suffice to use said lot for said purpose then the lot shall revert to the said giver or his heirs to the original owner to tumble him and assigns forever So far and to hold the said quieted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances buildings and accompaniments to the said believers or any other wise appertaining to the said church trustees and to his successors in said office in trust for said church branch of said first general south fourth Baptist Church of Christ in Rhode Island to their use and purpose and benefit enough forever and furthermore I did the said Joe Hungerly with my signing and sealing and acknowledging and administering account and engage durable damages to the said poles S. Moore in trust for said branch against the lawful claims of demands of any person or persons whatever ever in trust to secure and ensure and defend by their presents concerning the conditions here specified Amen X Almon Hungerly executor of said Joe Hungerly for and in consideration of the love and good will which he had for said church do hereby ratified and confirmed and for ever give up all my right of dower and tenure of thirds in and to the aforesaid premises to the said poles S. Moore in trust for said branch of said first south fourth church as aforesaid In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this fifteenth (15th) day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven (1847) Signed sealed delivered and performed in presence of (Sign) Joe Hungerly Christopher Fellowship st. Shele & Almon Hungerly Almon Hungerly Excl. Washington St. Charlestown June the 4th the 1847. Then personally appeared Joe Hungerly the signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed sealed and sealed Before me Charles Cross - Town Clerk Received for record June 4th 1847 at 11 oclock A M and delivered by Chas Cross Town Clk

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.