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7/28/1887 · DEED · book 11 page 453 doc 5039

From HOXSIE JOHN W life, HOXSIE JOANNA T life
To NEW YORK PROVIDENCE & BOSTON RAIL ROAD CO life
Consideration one thousand dollars
Premises 2 27/100 acres · irregular shaped tract of land and a bridge (Charlestown, Pawcatuck River, Wood River junction)
Also on this page: MISC HOXSIE JOHN W; TEFFT DAVID 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 · DEED · BARBER MARY C → HOXSIE JOANNA T · book 11 p 435
◀ 1887 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · REYNOLDS JOHN H → HOXSIE JOHN W; HOXSIE JOANNA T · book 11 p 438
◀ 1887 · MISC · TEFFT DAVID C; HOXSIE JOHN W → HOXSIE JOHN W; TEFFT DAVID C · book 11 p 453

Forward — where this land went

⛔ 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.

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 Josh Providence & Boston Rail Road Company hereinafter called the grantee the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, and are therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid and therefore every full part and parcel thereof, do covenant, acquit and discharge the said grantee these presents, executors and administrators forever by these presents, have given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, conveyed conveyed confirmed, and by these presents do sellly fully and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell alienate, enfeoff convey deliver confirm unto the said grantee their heirs and assigns forever all that irregular shaped tract of land called belonging to the grantors bounded by the property of Providence & Boston on the southerly side of the Providence & Boston Boston Rail Road in the town of Charlestown bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the southerly 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
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454 grantors and property formerly belonging to Edward Pelley 1853 ft to the southerly boundary of right of way of said Railroad thence along said southerly right of way boundary 936 ft 44 in the place of beginning, said tract containing about 2 27/100 acres and being more fully delineated on a map hereunto annexed. Also, the grantors hereby convey, with all right of way, titles, and interest in and to a certain Bridge built over said Railroad for the benefit of the property described in this deed, the intent of the grantors by this provision being to forever abandon all right to this overhead bridge and to permit the said Railroad company to remove and forever deactivate the same. 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 case aftersaid to the said grantees their heirs and assigns forever for them and their only proper use, benefit and behalf forever. And we the said grantors to ourselves our heirs, executors and administrators do covenant promise and grant to and with the said grantees their heirs and assigns, that at and before the executing hereof we were the true, sole and lawful owner of the above bargained premises and are lawfully seized and possessed of the same in our own proper right as full perfect and absolute estate of inheritance to be enjoyed forever and have in due and 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 grantees their heirs and assigns shall, may and from time to time, and at all times forever thereafter by full and virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the said devised and bargained premises with its appurtenances free and clear and fully and clearly acquitted exonerated and discharged of and from all and manner of lien or other gifts grants bargains sales leases mortgages bills contracts promises bonds judgments executions and incumbrances of what name or nature ever that might in any manner or degree obstruct or make void this present deed. In furthermore we the said grantors for ourselves our heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above devised premises to the said grantees their heirs and assigns against the lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever secure and settle be this present deed in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of E. P. Metcalf Franklin Metcalf John H. Hossie L.S. Joanna S. Hossie L.S. State of Rhode Island and the County of Washington to In Richmond this fifteenth day of June A.D. 1887 John H. Hossie ap[pear]
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appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing instruments by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed; and then there the above named Joanna H. Hopie wife of said John M. Hopie, also personally appeared before me and being by me examined privately and apart from her said husband acknowledged the same instrument shown and explained to her by me, to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and declared to me that she did not wish to retract the same. Edward P. Metcalf Notary Public Received for record July 2nd 1847 at 5 o'clock PM. and recorded by Henka & Graves town clerks
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I cannot fulfill this request. The provided image is not a page from a Rhode Island town land-evidence register; it is a technical engineering drawing or survey map titled "PLAN of LAND belonging to Mrs. T. H. Gould" related to the "N.Y.P & B. R.R." (New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad).

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.