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12/25/1838 · DEED · book 6 page 461 doc 10105

From WILLCOX EDWARD
To SECOND SCHOOL DISTRICT life
Consideration sixteen Dollars
Premises four hundred and forty square feet · lot of land for a school house (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

◀ 1817 · DEED · HAZARD BRENTON W → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 303
◀ 1816 · DEED · HAGADORN JOHN ESTATE OF; WELLS THOMAS R EXECUTOR → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 264
◀ 1816 · MORTGAGE · ALLEN JAMES → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 265
◀ 1816 · MORTGAGE · GARDNER MOLBOROUGH H → STANTON JOSEPH JR; WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 295
◀ 1815 · DEED · ROSS LIBEUS BY ATTORNEY → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 240
◀ 1815 · DEED · ALLEN JAMES ESTATE OF; HOXSEY JOSEPH JR SHERIFF → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 266
◀ 1814 · MORTGAGE · TUCKER GIDEON T → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 208
◀ 1813 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 169
◀ 1812 · DEED · ROSS WILLIAM LEWIS; ROSS LIBEUS; ROSS THOMAS; ROSS BENJAMIN; ROSS ALIC → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 86
◀ 1812 · MORTGAGE · BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 133
◀ 1811 · DEED · STANTON MOLBOROUGH; STANTON MARTHA → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 13
◀ 1811 · MORTGAGE · KINYON SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 39
◀ 1811 · AGREEMENT · KINYON SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 41
◀ 1811 · DEED · TAYLOR SAMUEL; TAYLOR REBECAH → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 42

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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461 Know all men by these presents that I Edward Willcox of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation for and in Consideration of the Sum of Sixteen Dollars paid me by the said paying In inhabitant of same District in the Town of Charlestown County and State aforesaid The Receipt Whereof I do hereby acknowledge to be duly given grant bargain sell and convey unto the said person of said District their heirs and assigns forever or as long as it is appropriated for a school House and no longer by said District making and maintaining a road alongside said lot of certain tract of land situate in said District containing four hundred and forty square feet it being a lot of land booked for the setting of a school House in said district by a map made of the town in said district bounded as follows on the South by the South road forty feet on land of the grantor thirty feet on the South on land of the grantor 40 feet on land of the grantor thirty feet and so to the first mentioned Boundary To have and to hold the said granted and Bargained Premises with the privileges and appurtenances thereof to them the said tow persons of said District their heirs and assigns forever or as long as it is appropre tated for a school House and no longer And I the said Edward Willcox for myself my Heirs Executants and Administrators declare by Covenant with the tow persons of said District their heirs and assigns all mountaineous premises that I have good right to Sell and Convey the same to the said tow persons of said District their heirs and assigns forever or as long as it is appropriated for a school House and no longer against the lawful Claims and demands of all persons Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal This 14th day of April 1838 Executed in presence of Edward Willcox [seal] Bonnejah Bailey Oliver Tuttle Charlestown County before me Acknowledge This 14th day of April 1838 Personally appeared Edward Willcox submitted to the within instrument unto and acknowledged the same to be his free and Voluntary Act Before Bonnejah Bailey Justice Peace Recorded Decr 25th 1838 By John Stanton Town 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.