The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 5770

1/10/1901 · DEED · book 14 page 165 doc 5770

From BROWNING SAMUEL life, BROWNING EMILY life
To HOXSIE HENRY W life
Premises none · tract bounded by Mataking Pond (Mataking Pond, 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

◀ 1886 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; STEVENS MERCY DECEASED → BROWNING SAMUEL · book 11 p 372
◀ 1876 · DEED · BROWNING CHRISTOPHER; BROWNING ELIZA → BROWNING SAMUEL · book 10 p 241

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

▶ 1901 · DEED · HOXSIE ETTA; HOXSIE HENRY W → AKERS EMMA C · book 14 p 205

The instrument's own words

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165 October AD 1899 before me personally appeared Hue Joseph L. Ennis Nutland S. Smith, Lea M. Haskell, George M. Sebory and Minnie S. Sebory each to me known, and known to me, to be the individuals described in, and who executed the foregoing instrument and they severally acknowledged said instrument to be their free act and deed. Louis S. Hayward Notary Public S.I. Received for record December 27 1900 at 2 o'clock P.M. and recorded by George lo cross Town Clerk Know All Men by these presents, That I Samuel Brooming of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of three dollars to me paid by Henry M. Hope he his heirs said Charlestown the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have remised, released and forever quitclaimed and by these presents do remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said Henry M. Hope his heirs and assigns forever all the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand which I now have, or of right ought to have or claim, in and to a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown bounded as follows, beginning at a stake at the shore of Mataking Pond thence Southerly 200 feet to a stake, thence easterly 200 feet to a stake, thence Northerly 200 feet to Mataking Pond thence Westerly 200 feet to the place of beginning bounding Northerly on Mataking Pond, Easterly, Southerly and Westerly on lands of the grantor, also granting to said grantee a right of passage and egress on foot or with teams over land of the grantor from the road led to the lot hereby conveyed, To have and to hold the same, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining to the said Henry M. Hope his heirs and assigns forever, And I the aforementioned Samuel Brooming for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the said Henry M. Hope his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the apondescribed premises unto the said Henry M. Hope his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through or under me. And I Emily Brooming wife of the said Samuel Brooming in consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid do hereby release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee
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166 his heirs and assigns, all my right of dower in and to the aforegranted premises. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 19th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of George Calross Samuel Browning L.S. Emily Browning L.S. State of Rhode Island sc County of Washington &c Dr Charleston this 19th day of August A.D. 1891 Samuel Browning personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed. George Calross Notary Public Received for record January 10 1891 at 12-30 oclock P.M. and released by George Calross Town Clerk KNOW ALL MEN, that I, George Calross of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island administrator with the will annexed of the Estate of Matilde Perry late of said Charlestown deceased, by virtue of authority vested in me by the Court of Probate for said town of Charlestown, ask for and in consideration of the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, to one paid by Miles H. Champ of said Charlestown, the highest bidder at a public auction of the estate hereby conveyed on the 27th day of December 1890, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and holdy grant bargain sell and convey unto said Miles H. Champ his heirs and assigns forever, all the right, title and interest which said Matilda Perry at the time of her decease, had in and to a certain farm situated in said Charlestown, containing eighty (80) acres more or less with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing bounded as follows, to wit: commencing at the northwest corner of the said mill lot now owned by said Champ, thence Southerly by the highway to land formerly of Matilde M. Perry now owned by Steph. G. Danley, thence Easterly

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.