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2/17/1897 · DEED · book 13 page 307 doc 5550

From KING ELIZABETH life, KING WHIPPLE life
To SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER SIX life
Consideration one Hundred Dollar
Premises one acre · lot of land known as Procurement Brook Farm (Charlestown, Procurement Brook Farm)

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

◀ 1888 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS LOIS → KING WHIPPLE · book 12 p 4
◀ 1873 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS LOIS → KING WHIPPLE · book 9 p 181

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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year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven. (1897) Signed and sealed in presence of Henreth A. Wood Coharlis Mays Lewis B. Harry L.S. Grien, S. Harry L.S. Simon H. Harry L.S. Coharlis Edward Harry L.S. Wilhelmina Rinne Harry L.S. Coharlis Mays [illegible] State of Rhode Island County of Providence In Providence on the twenty seventh day of January A.D. 1897 before me personally appeared Lewis B. Harry, Coharlis Sharp Harry, Simon Harry Harry and Coharlis Edward Harry known to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. (the north half being witelisted before executing) Coharlis Mays Notary Public Received for record Feb 6, 1897 at 3 oclock P.M. and recorded by George Glover Town Clerk KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That I, Whipple King of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars to me paid by school District number Six in said Town of Charlestown, in lawful currency the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and am therewith fully satisfied and paid, do hereby grant, give, release, convey and confirm unto said School District Number Six in said Town of Charlestown and its successors, A certain lot of land situated in said Town of Charlestown or my family name known as Procurement Brook Farm, bounded on the Southwest corner by the highway and near the corner of a wall, and running Easterly opposite (the road) by the side of said wall, Thence Northly at an angle and parallel with said highway ten rods, Thence westerly sixteen rods to said highway, Thence Northly along said highway ten rods to said first mentioned starting point containing one acre of land, with all appurtenances
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308 and privileges thereto belonging, to said School District Number six in said Town of Charlestown me, to said School District Number six in said Town of Charlestown him and to its successors forever, for the purpose of maintaining therein a district school house and its appurtenances for the benefit of the district school in said district, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. It is further conditioned, that if said lot ever cease to be used for school purposes, the title to the same shall revert to me, my heirs or assigns. And I the said Whipfple King is hereby for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, covenant and engage to and with said School District Number six in said Town of Charlestown, that the premises aforesaid are free from all encumbrances, that I have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid, and that I, my heirs, executors and administrators shall and will forever warrant, secure and defend said premises to said School District Number six in said Town of Charlestown and its successors, to and for the purposes aforesaid, against the lawful claims of all persons whatsoever. And I Elizabeth King wife of said Whipfple King, in consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid do hereby release all my right of dower in and to said granted premises unto the said grantee and its successors forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty second day of April AD 1876 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Frank Von Hoech William Hamilton Whipfple King L sd Elizabeth King L sd State of Rhode Island se County of Washington ss In Charlestown on this 2nd day of January, AD 1877 personally appeared before me the above named Whipfple King and Elizabeth King to me known and known to me to be the persons who executed the foregoing instrument and solemnly acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their appeared to be their free and voluntary act and deed, Obadiah J. Greene Notary Public Received for record Feb 17th 1877 at 9-50 oclock A.M. and recorded by George Blosse Lure 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.