The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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6/15/1901 · DEED · book 14 page 221 doc 5801

From CROSS GEORGE C life, CROSS MARY E life
To BROWNELL STEPHEN life
Premises five acres more or less · lot with dwelling house (Charlestown, Indian road)

Back — where this land came from

deed Bradley Hopkins book 177 p 171 Charlestown
“being the same premises conveyed to this grantor by deed from Bradley Hopkins”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1901 · DEED · HOPKINS DUDLEY → CROSS GEORGE C · book 14 p 171
◀ 1899 · DEED · BROWNELL STEPHEN; BROWNELL HENRIETTA H → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 525
◀ 1898 · DEED · WILLIAMS LUCY → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 454
◀ 1898 · DEED · HOPKINS GEORGE W; HOPKINS HANNAH E → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 497
◀ 1898 · DEED · HAZARD PERRY; HAZARD CAROLINE → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 498
◀ 1898 · DEED · HAZARD JOHN → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 499
◀ 1896 · DEED · BURDICK GEORGE F ESTATE OF; HOXSIE SAMUEL B JR ADMINISTRATOR → CROSS GEORGE C · book 13 p 285
◀ 1892 · DEED · HAZARD WILLIAM HENRY DECEASED; SHEFFIELD WILLIAM P JR EXECUTOR → CROSS GEORGE C · book 12 p 366
◀ 1891 · MORTGAGE · TABER ABBY L; TABER HENRY W → CROSS GEORGE C · book 12 p 308
◀ 1890 · MORTGAGE · PERRY JOHN H → CROSS GEORGE C · book 12 p 208
◀ 1888 · MORTGAGE · CONGDON JOHN → CROSS GEORGE C · book 11 p 514
◀ 1887 · MORTGAGE · HOPKINS DUDLEY → CROSS GEORGE C · book 11 p 445
◀ 1885 · DEED · KENYON JAMES A; KENYON LUCIE A → CROSS GEORGE C · book 11 p 343
◀ 1885 · MORTGAGE · CONGDON JOHN → CROSS GEORGE C · book 11 p 348

Forward — where this land went

The instrument's own words

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221 Know all men by these presents that I George Co Bros of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of one dollar to me paid by Stephen Bromwell of the city & County of Providence State aforesaid 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 Stephen Bromwell his heirs and assigns, 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 lot of land situated in said Charlestown containing five acres more or less and bounded as follows, on the North, East and South by land of Stephen Bromwell and North by a highway known as the Indian road and land belonging of Shelah Hopkins, a homeowner likewise bounded, being the same premises conveyed to this grantor by deed from Bradley Hopkins and on record in said Charlestown in Land Evidence record Book 177 page 171, on which land is a dwelling house and other improvements formerly the residence of Bradley Hopkins now occupied, I have and to hold the same with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining to him the said Stephen Bromwell his heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned George Co Bros for myself and for my heirs, executors and administrators do covenant with the said Stephen Bromwell his heirs and assigns, that I will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises unto the said Stephen Bromwell his heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by himself or under me. And I Mary Co Bros wife of the said George Co Bros in consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid, do hereby release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns all my right of dower in and to the aforementioned premises. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 14 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one. Signed, sealed and delivered In presence of Bessie M. Lobes George Co Bros L.S. Mary Co Bros L.S. State of Rhode Island, County of Washington In Richmond on the 14 day of May A.D. 1801 before me personally appeared George Co Bros and Mary Co Bros to me known and known them to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said
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222 instrument buy them executed to be their free act and deed Whiting Metcalf Notary Public Received for record January 15 1901 at 11-30 oclock A.M. and recorded by George G. Lowre Town clerk Know All Men by these presents, that we Abraham Johnson and Abby H Johnson (wife of said Abraham Johnson in her own right) both of the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantors, in consideration, ten dollars to us paid by Henry Barker of the City of Providence in said State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby give, grant bargain sell and convey unto the said said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, a certain piece of parcel of land lying in the Town of Charlestown on the Northerly side of the King's Factory Road so called near its intersection with the "Post Road" so called and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound on the Northerly side of said King's Factory Road at the Southe east corner of the lot herein described and running Northing with the boundary line between this lot and land owned by said Abby H Johnson and Charles G Johnson to a stone bound upon the South side of seep Pond so called thence running and running in a general Easterly direction with said seep Pond, (including all ownership right title and interest in and to the bed of said pond attached to the land herein described) to a stone bound marking the dividing line between this land and land owned by James H Kenyon thence running and running in an Easterly direction with the Southerly line of said land of said James H Kenyon to a stone bound marking the dividing line between this land and the Brimas Land" so called (now owned in part by said Jas H Kenyon) thence running Southerly bounding Easterly on said "Brimas land" to a cedar tree on the King's Factory Road, thence running Westerly bounding Northerly on said road to the first mentioned bound or starting point. Said parcel of land comprises 87.5 more or less a part of the Valley portion of the Pecoon Sand" so called as laid out on a "Map of the Susan Reservoir Charlestown Rhode Island" which is recorded in the Town Clerks Office of Charlestown, to which reference is hereby made.

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.