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7/16/1887 · MISC · book 11 page 453 doc 5038

From TEFFT DAVID C life, HOXSIE JOHN W life
To HOXSIE JOHN W life, TEFFT DAVID C life
Consideration one thousand dollars
Premises not stated · irregular shaped tract of land called "the fall" (Charlestown, Pawcatuck River, Wood River junction)
Also on this page: DEED NEW YORK PROVIDENCE & BOSTON RAIL ROAD C

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

◀ 1887 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · REYNOLDS JOHN H → HOXSIE JOHN W; HOXSIE JOANNA T · book 11 p 438
◀ 1881 · DEED · KENYON JAMES A; KENYON LUCIE A → TEFFT DAVID C · book 11 p 12
◀ 1879 · DEED · TEFFT SILAS → TEFFT DAVID C · book 10 p 468
◀ 1877 · DEED · TEFFT SILAS → TEFFT DAVID C · book 10 p 374

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

▶ 1887 · MORTGAGE · HOXSIE JOHN W; HOXSIE JOANNA T → REYNOLDS JOHN H · book 11 p 436
▶ 1887 · DEED · HOXSIE JOHN W; HOXSIE JOANNA T → NEW YORK PROVIDENCE & BOSTON RAIL ROAD CO · book 11 p 453
▶ 1896 · DEED · TEFFT DAVID C; TEFFT CAROLINE D → WHITE JOEL W · book 13 p 211
▶ 1897 · MORTGAGE · HOXSIE RUTH M; HOXSIE JOHN W → HOXSIE GEORGE E · book 13 p 340
▶ 1908 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · TEFFT DAVID C → TEFFT WILLIAM E · book 14 p 232
▶ 1913 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → LOXLEY SAMUEL; LOXLEY HANNAH A · book 17 p 437
▶ 1914 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → CRANDALL STEPHEN B; CRANDALL LOUETTA O · book 18 p 135
▶ 1914 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → CRANDALL STEPHEN B; CRANDALL LOUETTA O · book 18 p 137
▶ 1916 · WILL · TEFFT DAVID C → · book 18 p 333

The instrument's own words

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453 Division line between lands of David Le Tofflor & John W. Messie, beginning at a post at the North running 406 ft to a certain stake is to be built and maintained by David Le Tofflor Beginning at said stake running 415 ft to a stone wall to be built and maintained by John W. Messie Beginning at the stake and end of said wall running 406 ft to a stake driven by sd wall is to be maintained by David Le Tofflor Beginning as said stake driven by said wall running 606 ft to the railroad is to be maintained by John W. Messie. Recorded July 16th 1887 by George L. Converse Town Clerk To all people to whom these presents shall come, We John W. Messie of Richmond, in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island, and Washna L. Messie, wife of John W. Messie in her right thereinafter called the grantors, send Greeting Know ye that we the said grantors for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to us in hand paid by the undersigning hereof well and truly paid by the said Yah Providence & Pawtucket Rail Road Company hereinafter called the grantee the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, and are therewith fully satisfied, content and paid and therefore every full part and parcel thereof, do covenant, acquit and discharge the said grantee through these presents, have given, granted, bargained, sold, altered, enfeoffed, conveyed, conveyed confirmed, and by these presents do sellly fully and absolutely, give, grant, bargain, sell, alienate, enfeoff, convey deliver full seisin unto the said grantee their heirs and assigns forever All that irregular shaped tract of land called "the fall" belonging to the grantors bounded by the property of Providence Pawtucket and Boston Rail Road on the south side in town of Charlestown bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the south boundary of the right of way of said Railroad and in the dividing line between the property of the grantors and property formerly belonging to Oliver Caswell which property is abutting about 162 ft Easterly from easterly abutment of the first bridge on the side of said Railroad over the Pawcatuck River, East of Wood River junction thence following along said dividing line in a South Easterly direction 416 ft to a corner in the wall thence turning South Easterly and following along the dividing line of property of

The page as recorded

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