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4/22/1873 · MORTGAGE · book 10 page 93 doc 4377

From CROSS JOSEPH H life
To BURDICK GEORGE F JR
Consideration one hundred dollars
Premises one half an acre · lot bounded by highway and burial ground (Charlestown, Cove's Mills)

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deed
“same premises, hereby conveyed and therein warrant and assure the same to said Corporation free from all incumbrances”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1872 · DEED · CONGDON JOHN; BERRY WEEDEN H → CROSS JOSEPH H · book 10 p 66
◀ 1860 · DEED · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; SWEET PARDON; SWEET MARY H → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 311
◀ 1860 · DEED · CROSS JOHN Q → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 334
◀ 1859 · DEED · CROSS MARY L → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 278
◀ 1853 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS CHARLES E; CAREY ALFRED W; CAREY SARAH E; CROSS → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 15
◀ 1851 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 7 p 437
◀ 1835 · DEED · CROSS NATHANIEL L ESTATE OF; CURTIS JOSHUA B SHERIFF → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 324
◀ 1835 · DEED · WRIGHT STEPHEN A; WRIGHT SUSAN → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 332
◀ 1830 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 218

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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.

Bounded by

Julia Toffey

The instrument's own words

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easing or demands of any person or persons whatsoever fore ever to warrant seize and defend by these presents The foregoing we have hereunto set our hands and seals This twenty seventh day of April AD 1873 Signed sealed and delivered In presence of Charles Cross Philemon Kenyon State of Rhode Island and [illegible] County of Washington ss on this twenty seventh day of April AD 1873, Margaret G. Kenyon personally appeared before me and acknowledged that the instrument by her signed to be her free and voluntary act and deed Signed Hand and sealed This one the same day also the above named Ruth L. Kenyon wife of said Margaret G. Kenyon personally appeared before me and having been examined privately and apart from her said husband she acknowledged the instrument signed and sealed as by me shown and explained to her to be her free and voluntary act and deed and stated and declared to me that she did not wish to obstruct the same Received for deed April 27th 1873 Charles Cross Recorded for deed April 27th 1873 at 9 o'clock P.M. and recorded by Charles Cross Town Clerk To all people to whom these presents shall come Greetings I Joseph 'Ic. Cross of Charlestown in the County of Washington and state of Rhode Island send Greetings Whereas that I the said Joseph 'Ic. Cross for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars in hand before the executing hereby well and truly paid by George G. Bindrich for of Charlestown aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and am hereby etc fully satisfied contented and paid and there of and every part and parcel thereof the servants agents and employees of the said George G. Bindrich for his heirs executors and administrators forever by these presents have given granted bargained sold aliened assigned conveyed confirmed and by these presents do fully purely and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien endow convey and confirm unto the said George G. Bindrich for his heirs and assigns forever a certain lot of land situated in said Charlestown containing one half an acre and bounded and described as follows beginning at the highway [Continued on page 95]
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I continued from page 94 and at the South West corner of the burial ground thence northerly bounding westerly bounding South westerly to a said highway dip side north thence Northerly bounding Westerly on [illegible] granite and the place of George W. Moore deceased Clarson roads and eleven rods thence Easterly bounding Northerly on said Lower east eight rods to said burial ground thence Southerly bounding Easterly on said burial ground to the place of beginning. — To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises, with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to the same belonging or in any service appertaining unto him the said George G. Burke for his heirs and assigns forever, in true however, and upon the express conditions and for the purposes herein heretofore declared and for no other purpose or use whatever that the said George G. Burke for his heirs or assigns shall and will upon and at the request of the Trustees of the first Baptist Church and Society at Cove's Mills in said Charlestown whenever the same shall have been created a corporation by the General Assembly of the state of Rhode Island execute and deliver to said Church and Society their successors and assigns a good and sufficient deed of the same premises hereby conveyed and securing warrant and assure the same to said Corporation free from all encumbrances. And I the said grantor for myself my heirs, executors and administrators do covenant promise and grant to and with the said grantee his heirs and assigns that at and in love the executing hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner of the above bargained premises and lawfully seised and possessed of the same in my own proper right as just perfect and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple and that I have and may good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and confirm the said bargained premises in manner as aforesaid and that the said grantee his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter by this deed and virtue of these presents lawfully and presently and quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the said demised and bargained premises with the appurtenances free and clear and freely and quietly seised and possessed and discharged of and free from all and all manner of former or other gifts grants bargains sales leases mortgages wills estates jointures doweries judgments executions and encumbrances of what name or nature soever that might in any measure or degree obtrude or molest this present deed. Furthermore I the said grantor for myself my heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above demised premises to the said Grantee his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever to warrant secure and defend by these presents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
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96 seal this 22d day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Abel P. L. Turner Joseph H. Cross L.S. Charles Cross State of Rhode Island etc Washington County ss I, Charles Cross Justice of the Peace In Charles town this 22nd day April A.D. 1873 Joseph H. Cross personally appeared before me and acknowledged that the foregoing instrument be his own signature to be his free and voluntary act and deed Charles Cross Justice of the Peace Received for Record April 22d 1873 by T. Baker A.M. and Recorded by Calebates Cross Town Clerk To all people to whom these presents shall come—I Henry Whipple of Westerly in the County of Washington or State of Rhode Island etc. being Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the [illegible] against William Gringeser of Charles town in said County at the suit of Joseph P. Belknap of Richmond in said County by me the said Henry Whipple on the 22th day of November A.D. 1871 seized on all the rights title & interest which the aforesaid William Gringeser had on the 1st day of October A.D. 1872 at 8 the clock in the forenoon (that being the time of the attachment on the original writ) and to a certain tract of land & the improvements thereon situated in said Charlestown containing by estimation one fourth of an acre more or less & bounded Northly, easterly and westerly on lines of the "Coastline Mile Co." southerly on a Street or passage & westerly on land of John Duffy or however otherwise bounded and abuts, and whereas on the first day of the May A.D. 1876 all the Estate, right, title, interest & property of the said William Gringeser in this premises aforesaid was by me the said Henry Whipple sold at public auction for the satisfaction of the said Connection to Joseph P. Belknap of Richmond in said County who was the highest bidder for the sum of seventy one dollars which the said Joseph Belknap hath fully paid well and truly to me the said Henry Whipple. Now know ye, that by these presents of the love and will in such case made and provided I the said Henry Whipple and consideration of the sum of Money paid me as aforesaid do by these presents bargain and sell assign & set over unto the said Joseph P. Belknap his heirs and assigns forever all the Estate, right, title, interest, property, freehold & inheritance of the said William Gringeser of it in to the said premises or aforementioned at

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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.