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2/12/1876 · DEED · book 10 page 198 doc 4451

From HOLBURTON GEORGE W life
To DAVIS MARY E life
Consideration three hundred dollars
Premises fifty acres · tract of land with a dwelling house (Cohasset town)

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

◀ 1875 · DEED · DAVIS GEORGE F; DAVIS MARY E → HOLBURTON GEORGE W · book 10 p 160
◀ 1867 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS GEORGE F; DAVIS M ELLA → HOLBURTON GEORGE W · book 9 p 73
◀ 1856 · DEED · DAVIS ELIZABETH; DAVIS PRESERVED JR → HOLBURTON GEORGE W · book 8 p 150

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

▶ 1884 · DEED · DAVIS GEORGE F; DAVIS MARY E → JOHNSON GEORGE A · book 11 p 243
▶ 1888 · DEED · DAVIS GEORGE F; DAVIS MARY E → GREENMAN HARRIET · book 12 p 17

Bounded by

Jason A. Green · Stephen Blake · John S. Browning · Hampton Johnson · Jason P. Green · Jason P. Green · Henry G. Gard

The instrument's own words

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198 on said premises during said term, And at the expiration of this lease, will on the first day of March 1877 to yield up peaceable and quiet poss- ession of said premises to said Henry G. Gard or to his legal representatives. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. In presence of Charles Cross Henry G. Gard L.S. A. J. Greene L.S. Received for record Feb 7th 1876 at 12 o'clock P.M. and recorded by Charles Cross Town Clerk Know all men by these presents that I George W. Colvin total of Cohasset town in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island and for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to me paid by Mary E. Davis wife of George F. Davis of Richmond in the County I state aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have remised, released and forever quitclaimed, and by these presents do remise, release and forever quitclaim, waive unto the said Mary E. Davis her 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 tract of land situated in said Cohasset town with a dwelling house thereon standing, bounded Northerly by a highway Easterly partly by land of Jason A. Green partly by land of Stephen Blake and partly by land of John S. Browning, or Southing stock from town line, South by land of said Stephen Blake & partly West by lands of Hampton Johnson, and Jason P. Green and Henry G. Gard or however otherwise the same may be bounded containing by estimation fifty acres by the same more or less. So have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto
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appertaining to her the said Mary E Davis her heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned George W Holburton for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the said Mary E Davis her heirs and assigns, that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to the said Mary E Davis her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through or under me In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and seventy six Signed sealed and delivered in presence of George W Holburton L.S. Charles Cross Martha B Cross State of Rhode Island &c Washington S.c In Charlestown in said County, on this twelfth day of February A.D. 1876 the above named George W Holburton personally appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument, by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed Charles Cross Justice of the Peace Received for record Feb 12th 1876 at 5 o'clock P M, and recorded by Chas Cross 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.