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2/19/1874 · DEED · book 10 page 122 doc 4399

From HOPKINS NATHANIEL life
To HOLDEN CHARLES life
Consideration one dollar
Premises one half acre · house and one half acre of land (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

◀ 1872 · DEED · KENYON CYRUS B; KENYON DORCAS P → HOPKINS NATHANIEL · book 9 p 189
◀ 1869 · DEED · KENYON CYRUS B; KENYON DORCAS P → HOPKINS NATHANIEL · book 9 p 113

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1884 · DEED · SAUNDERS GEORGE; SAUNDERS DERIZES → JOHNSON THOMAS · book 11 p 223
“purchased by deed from S. & Rose Rose heir at law of Joseph R Rose... and Susan R. Rose”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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

▶ 1877 · DEED · CARD GREEN; TUCKER WILLIAM F; ENNIS VARNUM; LANPHEAR WILLIAM C; LANPHE → · book 10 p 326
▶ 1882 · DEED · BURDICK EMMA J; BURDICK ALBERT; HOLDEN CHARLES → WEEDEN JOHN E · book 11 p 36
▶ 1884 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES → REYNOLDS JESSE B · book 11 p 234
▶ 1876 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → MICHAEL BRISTER C · book 9 p 422
▶ 1877 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → TUCKER WELCOME C · book 9 p 392
▶ 1878 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOLDEN CHARLES → WEBSTER BETHEWEL; WEBSTER FIDELIA F · book 9 p 478
▶ 1890 · DEED · HOLDEN CHARLES → CROSS CHARLES · book 12 p 188

Bounded by

P. Byrnes · Clement Spread

The instrument's own words

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122 Know all men by these presents, that I Nathaniel Hopkins of Charlestown in the county of Washington Rhode Island are in consideration of one shrubble to me paid by Charles Nordlow of said Charlestown & for other valuable considerations, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto said Nordlow my house & one half acre of land situated in said Charlestown bounded Northerly on land of Byones P. Byones, Conveyor, Costley by the same southerly on a reef of stones of Cleland spread, Westerly on the highway, The condition of this obligation is, that whereas the said Nordlow has become indebted unto the said Hopkins for his appearance before the Supreme Court for said County in the day and hour of these premises bailor to answer the indictment this enlistment pending against him, for messing stolen property &c Now therefore it is said Hopkins and said Nordlow as sure ty every there this deed shall be void, Else remain in full force Witness my hand and seal this 19 the day of Feby 1874 Nat Hopkins L.S. Washington Co South Kingstown Feby 19 1874 These Nathaniel Hopkins acknowledged the within insu rancement to be his free act and deed Before me H. J. Braman Just. Peace Received for Record February 19 th 1874 at 8 oclock PM and Recorded by Charles Cross Town Clerk
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284 said grantors' land to be granite marker set in the ground at the northeasterly corner of said land this day conveyed to Richard G. Hutchins; thence in a general westerly direction in a straight course bounded southerly by land this day conveyed to Richard G. Hutchins a distance of approximately one hundred fifty- seven feet and six inches to a stake, and to a drill hole in a stone located at land of the grantees; thence in a general northerly direction in a straight course bounded westerly by land of others to a concrete post set in a corner, the ground, it being the point and place of beginning. Said parcel is a portion of that some property which was conveyed to the grantors hereof by Lena M. Tournas & et al by deed dated September 12, 1946, and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., in Book No. 30 at page 154, to which deed reference is hereby made and had. It is made a condition of this conveyance that the grantees, their heirs and assigns, shall assume the responsibility for the cost of erecting and maintaining any and all line fences between the above described premises and the property of Ver- non H. Hutchins and Emma R. Hutchins, so long as said grantors shall own the abutting premises. WITNESS our hands this 19th day of February, A. D. 1958. VERNON H. HUTCHINS EMMA R. HUTCHINS (No doc. stamps required) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) COUNTY OF WASHINGTON ) In Westerly on the 19th day of February A. D. 1958, before me personally appeared Vernon H. Hutchins, and Emma R. Hutchins, husband and wife, to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. EDWARD M. BOUVELLE Notary Public Received for Record February 20th, A. D. 1958 at 11 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk MORTGAGE DEED Arthur J. Jackson and Norma G. Jackson, husband and wife, cotn of the Town of Charles- town, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Petta- quamscut Credit Union, a legally created banking institution with principal place of business in the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of Two Thousand $2,000.00 ($2,000.00) Dollars in five (5) years with interest at six (%) per centum, per annum, payable monthly as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of date herein described. (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) Those two (2) certain contiguous tracts or parcels of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon situated locally partly in the Town of Charlestown and partly in the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Viz: FIRST TRACT: A certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Town of Charlestown and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of the Reston Post Road, so-called, at the Charlestown-South Kingstown boundary line; thence running northerly one hundred ninety six (196) feet, along said boundary line; thence running easterly seventy seven ( 77) feet, to a bound; thence southerly one hundred sixty (160) feet, more or less, to the point or place of beginning or however otherwise said premises may be bounded and described. SECOND TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Town of South Kingstown, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake on the line of said Reston Post Road and said Charlestown-South- Kingstown boundary line; thence running easterly about seventy (70) feet to land now or formerly of I. J. Mansfield; thence northerly about one hundred thirty-five (135) feet to land now or formerly of others; thence northerly about one hundred sixty (160) feet along said boundary line to the point or place of beginning or however otherwise said premises may be bounded and described.

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.