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11/20/1896 · DEED · book 13 page 285 doc 5536

From BURDICK GEORGE F ESTATE OF life, HOXSIE SAMUEL B JR ADMINISTRATOR life
To CROSS GEORGE C life
Consideration two hundred and twenty dollars
Premises thirteen acres more or less · tract with one half a dwelling house (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

probate court of probate for said town of Charlestown
“by virtue of authority vested in me by the court of probate”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1898 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS GEORGE C → TABER ABBY L; TABER HENRY W · book 12 p 311
▶ 1898 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → BROWNELL STEPHEN · book 13 p 501
▶ 1898 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → BROWNELL STEPHEN · book 13 p 502
▶ 1898 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → BROWNELL STEPHEN · book 13 p 504
▶ 1901 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → BROWNELL STEPHEN · book 14 p 221
▶ 1903 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → WATERHOUSE CHARLOTTE E · book 14 p 514
▶ 1912 · DEED · CROSS MARY E; CROSS GEORGE C → CHAMPLIN HENRY; CHAMPLIN SARAH; STEWART MARY P; FAYERWEATHER MARIAH C; · book 17 p 240
▶ 1913 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS GEORGE C → PECKHAM ALBERT A; PECKHAM KATIE S · book 17 p 338
▶ 1913 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → LOXLEY SAMUEL; LOXLEY HANNAH A · book 17 p 458
▶ 1917 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → JOSEPH RACHEL C; TEFFT WILLIAM E · book 18 p 504
▶ 1923 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → CROTTY LAWRENCE F · book 20 p 401
▶ 1923 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS GEORGE C → PECKHAM KATE S; PECKHAM ALBERT A · book 17 p 465
▶ 1927 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE C; CROSS MARY E → CROSS BESSIE M · book 22 p 460

The instrument's own words

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285 State of Rhode Island ss Washington sc For Charlestown this 24, day of August 1896 Joseph L. Browning and Emma A. Browning to me well known as the persons they represent themselves to be personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument by them signed to be their free and voluntary act and deed. George lo cross Notary Public Received for record Nov 24, 1896 at 10 oclock A.M. and recorded by George lo cross town clerk KNOW all Men that I Samuel B. House administrator on the estate of George H. Burdick late of Charlestown Rhode Island deceased by virtue of authority vested in me by the court of probate for said town of Charlestown and for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty dollars to me paid by George lo cross of said Charles- town, the highest bidder at a public auction of the estate hereby conveyed on the 24th day of August 1896, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby grant bargain, sell and convey unto said George lo cross his heirs and assigns forever all the right title and interest which said George H. Burdick at the time of his decease had in and to a certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Charlestown and bounded and described as follows On the East by a highway, south West and North by Indian land or however bounded, and contains thirteen acres more or less with one half a dwelling house thereon To have and to hold the aforesaid premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto of hine said George lo cross his heirs and assigns forever, to his and theirs only use benefit and behoof. And I do hereby covenant to and with said George lo cross his heirs and assigns that I am and am empowered by the court aforesaid to make sale thereof That it was sold according to the directions of the said court heretofore given to me relative to the sale thereof In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in my capacity as administrator this 3d day
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286 of September 1896 In Presence of [illegible] [illegible] State of Rhode Island and re Washington Co In Charlestown this 3rd day of September 1896 Samuel B. Hossie Jr to me well known as the party who executed the foregoing deed, personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed in his said capacity as administrator E. A. Kenyon Notary Public I Samuel B. Hossie Jr as administrator on the estate of George J. Prudick depose and say that four weeks prior to the day of making sale of the premises described in the foregoing deed I caused notice thereof to be published by posting up printed notifications in three public places in said town to wit: Post Office at center Mills, Post Office at Uncastown Home of William Cloves at Center and one in each adjoining town and by publication in the Nearby Daily paper That said sale was made on the 27th day of August 1896 at 10 oclock A.M. in my presence and under my direction by Samuel B. Hossie Jr as auctioneer of said town pursuant to the notice of sale aforesaid a copy whereof is hereto annexed and is as follows: [illegible] And I further depose and say that I am duly qualified by law to sell said premises as aforesaid and that the statements made in the foregoing deed are correct Samuel B. Hossie Jr Administrator Subscribed and sworn to in said Charlestown before me this 3rd day of September 1896 E. A. Kenyon Notary Public Received for record Nov 24, 1896 at 10-30 oclock A.M. and recorded by George Colcross Town clerk.

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