The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 10068

5/23/1838 · DEED · book 6 page 429 doc 10068

From EDDY GEORGE W life, EDDY SUSAN life
To NEW YORK PROVIDENCE AND BOSTON RAIL-ROAD CO life
Consideration one Hundred and twenty Dollars
Premises 30 rods wide and 100 rods long · Strip of land on East side of Rail Road (Charlestown, Westerly)

Back — where this land came from

purchase Samuel Thayer
“being the same land which I purchased of Samuel Thayer”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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.

Bounded by

Cesar Babcock · Joseph Taylor · George Crandalls

The instrument's own words

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429 Know all Men by these Presents that I George W. Eddy of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island in Consideration of the sum of one Hundred and twenty Dollars paid by the Narragansett Road Providence and Boston Rail Road Company a Company Legalized incorporated the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge to be fully Quit Just and Satisfactory said Company and the said Providence & Boston Rail Road Company their successors and Assigns forever a Certain Strip or lot of land situated in said Charles- town as follows: to wit the Rail Road of said Company has been located and now runs down from the Rail Road of the Heir of Connor Beawick Downward and lying at the lands owned by her my land extends Eastward being the same land of Eddy Northwardly as far as my land extends Eastward being the same land which I purchased of Samuel Thayer viz a Strip of land being about 30 rods wide and 100 rods long on the East side of said Rail Road as marked by rods and stakes Diversey way leading from the town of Westerly north by Easterly direction from the dwelling house of Jonathan Coffin down by the dwelling house of Gwen Grundals for the purpose of accommodating the public travel with the means of travel on or over and in all future parts for the accommodation of the said Rail Road as far as my land extends the said Rail Road Company to the above Express of having a good and suitable Gate at said end of way when it crosses over my land. To Have and to Hold the above granted Premises with the privileges thereunto belonging to the said Rail Road Company their Successors and Assigns to them and their successors and forever. And I the said Grantor for myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators do hereby Covenant with the said Rail Road Company Successors and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the aforesaid premises that they are free from all burdens tenures that of their right to sell and convey the same to the said Rail Road Company as aforesaid and that I will and my Heirs Executors and Administrators shall Warrant and Repel the same to the said Rail Road Company Suc- cessors and assigns against the lawful Claims and Demands of all persons whom I have above Consideration hereby Discharge all Claims which I have against said Company for Damages on account of said Rail Road. And I Susan Eddy wife of the said George W. Eddy party to the Consideration herein mentioned find said my said Husband to be hereby remove forever quit Claim to said Rail Road Company all my right Powers and houses of title in the Granted premises for the Benefit of the Rail Road Company their Successors and Assigns forever. In Testimony whereof with the said George W. Eddy and the said Susan Eddy have hereunto set our hands and Seals this 14th day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty eight. Executed and Delivered in presence of us John Nave Sarah R. Prison Recorded May 23 1838 by Samuel Stanton Town Clerk (State of Rhode Island Washington for Westerly May 14 1838 then personally appeared the above named George W. Eddy and Susan Eddy approved the foregoing Instrument and acknowledged the above Instrument to be their free act and Deed Before me Jose Mason Tp 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.