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12/14/1870 · DEED · book 10 page 1 doc 4311

From KNOWLES MUMFORD G life
To BROWNING SAMUEL JR life
Consideration one dollar
Premises eighteen acres · 1/2 a piece of land known as the Westerly lot (Eastertown, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

deed my father the late
“acquired in and to said lot by deed from my father the late”
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

◀ 1870 · DEED · STANTON JOHN → KNOWLES MUMFORD G · book 9 p 378
◀ 1863 · LEASE · MACOMBER JOSEPH; KNOWLES MUMFORD G → KNOWLES MUMFORD G; MACOMBER JOSEPH · book 8 p 430
◀ 1861 · LEASE · MACOMBER JOSEPH; KNOWLES MUMFORD G → KNOWLES MUMFORD G; MACOMBER JOSEPH · book 8 p 351

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. 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

Charles R. Williams · David Southworth · Samuel Browning · Samuel Browning

The instrument's own words

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Know all men by these presents that I Mumford G. Knowles of Westerly in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island for and in consideration of the sum, of one dollar to me paid by Samuel Browning jr of Charlestown in the county and state aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have released relinquished and forever quitclaimed, and by these presents do release release and forever quitclaim unto the said Samuel Browning jr for his heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest, property claim and demand which I now have or of right ought to have or claim in and to a certain 1/2 a piece of land lying in said Eastertown (known as the Westerly lot) containing by estimation eighteen acres the same more or less and is bounded Northly by Washington Posth, Eastly by Charles R. Williams and David Southworth, but Westly by lands of Samuel Browning and with Samuel Browning jr and Indian land or houses otherwise described meaning to convey all the right which I acquired in and to said lot by deed from my father the late dated December 23rd 1865 and recorded in said Charlestown So have I to hold the same with all the night title privileges and appurtenances thereunto or thereto appertaining to the said Samuel Browning jr for his heirs and assigns forever And I the aforesaid Mumford G. Knowles for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the said Samuel Browning jr for his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to the said Samuel Browning jr for his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by me through or under me In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy Signed Sealed and delivered in my presence of Charles Lowe Mumford G. Knowles L.S State of Rhode Island ss. Washington (Revenue Stamp) 80.50 In Charlestown this 14th day of December A.D. 1870 then Mumford G. Knowles personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed Charles Lowe Justice of the Peace Received for Record Dec 14th 1870 at 2 o'clock P.M. and Recorded by Charles Lowe Town Clerk

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.