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4/25/1900 · DEED · book 14 page 78 doc 5722

From BURDICK EDWARD E life, BURDICK ESTHER S life, GREEN BENJAMIN F life, COLLINS ALFRED life, GREEN MARY E life, BURDICK MARION G life, COLLINS SUSAN life
To RHODE ISLAND STATE OF life
Premises none · standing prime wood or timber on a certain lot of land (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1884 · DEED · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → GREEN BENJAMIN F · book 11 p 240
◀ 1884 · DEED · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJ B · book 11 p 262
◀ 1884 · DEED · GREEN ALMIRA F; GREEN BENJAMIN B → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M · book 11 p 254
◀ 1884 · DEED · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJ B · book 11 p 257
◀ 1884 · DEED · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJ B · book 11 p 259
◀ 1884 · DEED · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → COLLINS ALFRED; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJ B · book 11 p 260
◀ 1882 · DEED · BURDICK EDWARD T; BURDICK ESTHER S → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 11 p 109
◀ 1878 · DEED · BROWNING EZEKIEL H; SHERMAN JOHN W; HOLLOWAY MARY D → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 10 p 409
◀ 1878 · DEED · HOLLOWAY ALPHONZO BY GUARDIAN → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 10 p 410
◀ 1878 · DEED · GREEN ALMIRA F; BURDICK CHARLES M; GREEN BENJAMIN B → COLLINS ALFRED · book 10 p 417
◀ 1876 · FORCLOSURE DEED · PERRY WALTER; GREEN NATHANIEL; CROSS JOSEPH H; GREEN JOHN C; PERRY JOH → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 10 p 289
◀ 1876 · DEED · WARD GEORGE H ADMINISTRATOR; CROSS GEORGE W ESTATE OF → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 10 p 291
◀ 1876 · DEED · BURDICK CHARLES M → GREEN BENJAMIN B; COLLINS ALFRED · book 10 p 299

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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242 erect a saw mill at a proper and suitable location adjacent to the said prime wood or timber with full power to operate the same at any and all times during said term of three years, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, (1901) Signed and sealed in presence of Lora B. Johnson Henry H. Cohappell SS. M. E. Tafft State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Charlestown on the 20th day of April AD 1901 before me personally appeared Henry H. Cohappell to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed. William E. Tafft Notary Public Received for record July 28. 1901 at 2.50 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George own Cross Town Clerk Know All Men by these Presents that I George A. Johnson of Charlestown, in the county of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, have sold to James Smith, of the city and county of Providence, in the State aforesaid, all of the standing prime wood or timber on a certain lot of land situated in said Charlestown and bounded and described as follows, being bounded northerly by land owned by Henry H. Cohappell, Easterly by great mire, as called, southerly by land formerly owned by John Holliman, deceased and westerly by land owned by George M. Forbes, being land sold by John G. Hopkins and wife to Geo. A. Johnson by deed dated the 2nd day of August AD 1896. I have caused to hold the same to the said James Smith his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, until three years from the date hereof, to cut and to remove said prime wood or timber, the having paid to me the sum of two hundred and twenty first dollars, being in full for said standing prime wood and timber, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. And for the above consideration
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243. to me paid as aforesaid, I also give the right to the said James Smith, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, to cut paths, build roads, & erect bridges when necessary to so do in order to obtain the said pine wood or timber, Also to erect a saw mill at a proper and suitable location adjacent to the said pine wood & timber, with full power to operate the same at any and all times during the said term of three years. And I Ellen B. Johnson, for the one named consideration paid to my husband, George A. Johnson, release all of my dower rights to the said James Smith during the term aforesaid that I have or may have in or of the said pine wood or timber. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 20th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, (1901) Signed and sealed in presence of Henry H. Chappell George A. Johnson LS Leha B. Johnson Ellen B. Johnson LS State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Charlestown on the 20th day of April AD 1907, before me personally appeared George A. Johnson and Ellen B. Johnson to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by them respected to be their free act and deed William E. Typhill Notary Public Received for record July 29, 1907 at 7.30 oclock A.M. and recorded by George G. Groves Town Clerk Know All men, That the Mechanics Savings Bank of Westerly Rhode Island the mortgagee named in a certain Mortgage deed recorded in the Land Evidence of Charlestown R.I. in Book 110 Page 268 & 267 made by George H. Dyson and Mary H. Dyson of Charlestown Rhode Island dated August 14th 1882. In consideration of the sum of Three hundred ($300) dollars to be paid by the Mechanics Savings Bank of Westerly Rhode Island the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant bargain transfer and convey over to the said Westerly Savings

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