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11/30/1876 · DEED · book 10 page 291 doc 4502

From WARD GEORGE H ADMINISTRATOR life, CROSS GEORGE W ESTATE OF life
To COLLINS ALFRED life, GREEN BENJAMIN B life
Premises fifty acres more or less; seventy five acres more or less · Two lots with dwelling, mill, stone store, and barn (Charlestown, Jamestown)

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probate George W. Coates
“Administrator on the estate of George W. Coates late of said Charlestown deceased by virtue of authority vested in me by the Court of Probate”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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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

▶ 1876 · DEED · COLLINS SUSAN; GREEN ALMIRA F; COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B; GREEN → · book 10 p 205
▶ 1878 · DEED · GREEN ALMIRA F; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJAMIN B → COLLINS ALFRED · book 10 p 417
▶ 1880 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · GREENE GEORGE N; GREENE MARY F; GREEN BENJAMIN B → BROWNING EMMA A · book 10 p 284
▶ 1884 · DEED · GREEN ALMIRA F; GREEN BENJAMIN B → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M · book 11 p 254
▶ 1888 · DEED · COLLINS SUSAN; GREEN ALMIRA F; COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF · book 11 p 503
▶ 1900 · DEED · BURDICK EDWARD E; BURDICK ESTHER S; GREEN BENJAMIN F; COLLINS ALFRED; → RHODE ISLAND STATE OF · book 14 p 78
▶ 1905 · DEED · COLLINS SUSAN; GREEN BENJAMIN F; GREEN ALMIRA F; COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN → ARNOLD THOMAS L · book 15 p 212
▶ 1906 · DEED · COLLINS SUSAN; GREEN BENJAMIN F; GREEN ALMIRA F; COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN → ARNOLD THOMAS L · book 15 p 264
▶ 1906 · DEED · COLLINS SUSAN; COLLINS ALFRED → GREEN BENJAMIN F · book 15 p 459

The instrument's own words

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KNOW all men by these presents that I George the Ward of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island Administrator on the estate of George W. Coates late of said Charlestown deceased by virtue of authority vested in me by the Court of Probate of said town of Charlestown and for and in con- sideration of the sum of seven hundred and seventy dollars to me paid by Benjamin B. Green of said Charlestown and Alfred Collins of Narragansett in the county and State aforesaid, they being the highest bid at a public auction of the estate hereby confirmed on the 24th day of October last, the receipt of whereof said hereby acknowledge therefore in my capacity as administrator, bargain, sell and convey unto them the said Benjamin B. Green & Alfred Collins their heirs and assigns forever, all the right title and interest no more than said George W. Coates at the time of his decease had in and to one certain lot of land situated in said Charlestown the first part contains fifty acres more or less with a dwelling house, mill and other buildings thereon bounded northerly by Jonathan Indian land, easterly partly by the mill pond partly by Cedar swamp & partly by the burial ground & meeting house lot continuing partly by said meeting house lot and partly by the highway known as the "Old Road" & westerly by the highway known as Kendells Hall road The second lot contains seventy five acres more or less with a stone store and barn thereon bounded northerly by said Road & highway by Indian land and town of Jamestown & Kenyon southerly by said Road easterly by said Kendells Hall road & westerly by Indian land or pasture otherwise either of said lots may be bounded. To have and to hold the aforeagranted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof to them the said Benjamin B. Green and Alfred Collins their heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto in my sound sack capacity set my hand and seal this 20th day of November AD 1816! In presence of George H. Ward L.S. Charles Cross Admy John Lepery State of Rhode Island & County of Washington & In Charlestown this 20th day of November AD 1816! George H. Ward personally appeared before me and in his capacity of Administrator acknowledged that the foregoing instrument by him signed to be this his free and voluntary act and deed! Charles Cross Town Clerk Received for record Nov 30th 1816 at L.olgh R.H. and recorded by Chas. Cross Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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