The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 10647

12/3/1853 · DEED · book 8 page 28 doc 10647

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, CROSS GEORGE W life, BOCEMDES FRANCES life
To PERKINS JOHN A life
Premises three acres · tract of land at the extremity of the town (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

This is the first alienation
The grantor is the sachem or the tribe, so this instrument is where this ground enters the town's land evidence. Behind it stands the reserved tract of 1709 — the Narragansett reservation, about 64 square miles, carved out of the roughly 130,000 acres of "vacant lands" Ninigret quit-claimed to the Colony on 28 March 1709 (State Records, Land Evidence 3, p. 273; Tucker 1877, pp. 23–24) — and, before the reservation, the Narragansett country itself. There is no earlier deed to follow; the land is followed from here by its bounds and its abutters. From Ninigret — every such instrument ▸
indian General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island
“Authorized Frances Beecronds a member of the Management committee... to sell and convey a tract of land”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1853 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS CHARLES E; CAREY ALFRED W; CAREY SARAH E; CROSS → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 15
◀ 1852 · DEED · LAWTON EDWARD; LAWTON MERCY → CROSS GEORGE W · book 7 p 486
◀ 1851 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 7 p 437
◀ 1846 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 203
◀ 1845 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 189
◀ 1835 · DEED · CROSS NATHANIEL L ESTATE OF; CURTIS JOSHUA B SHERIFF → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 324
◀ 1835 · DEED · WRIGHT STEPHEN A; WRIGHT SUSAN → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 332
◀ 1830 · DEED · CROSS PELEG → CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS JOSEPH H · book 6 p 218
◀ 1826 · DEED · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; WILCOX EDWARD; DIXON NATHAN F → CROSS GEORGE W · book 6 p 128

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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28 To have and to hold the said quitclaim premises with all the privileges and appur- tenances thereto appertaining, as an undesirable, to her the said Phabe M Millcox her heirs and assigns forever granting the same to her and them against all claims of the same by virtue of any act out of bounds heretofore bar or done respecting the premises thus conveyed In Testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands and Seals the 9th day of March 1833 Per Secretary Ja D Jostlin Nathaniel W Westcott LS Penelope Westcott LS LS LS LS County of Providence S In the city of Providence on this 12th day of March AD 1833 then personally appeared the witness named Nathaniel W Westcott before me and acknowledged the witness instrument by his signature to this here act and deed, and at the same time and place personally appeared the person named Penelope Westcott wife of the said Nathaniel W Westcott before me and was examined freely and apart from her said husband by me and after having read the within instrument shown and explained unto her by me she declared unto me and acknowledged that she understood the same that it was her free act and deed and she declared unto me that she signed the Portunality and that she are not wish to retract the Same Ja D Jostlin Justice of the Peace Revenue Act 11th 1819. By Chas Cross T Clerk Whereas the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island Province at their Session held September 1833 Authorized Frances Beecronds a member of the Management committee of Providence (in Charlestown) to sell and convey a tract of land of three acres lying at the extremity of the town owned by her and Elizabeth & to give a cross and value thereof to the purchasing provided that said sale might undergo under the advice & directions of George L Cox commissioner of the Revenue trust Therefore now all men by these presents be it known that I the said Frances Be- counds by the authority aforesaid and by the advice & direction of said George L Cox trust certified by his signature hereunto affixed and in consideration of the sum of thirty Dollars to sell said George L Cox in hand payable to be returned by him subject to his control & to be by him from time to time paid out & delivered for my support as the direction of George L Cox Broker in state (in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island) on the occasion as aforesaid he hereby acknowledge & he hereby give grant bargain sell & convey unto said John A Jostlin his heir and assigns forever a tract of land of three acres in said (Charlestown) containing three acres and boundaries as follows: Viz North by bound of John Sutcliff East by the high way South partly on bound of Thomas Healds Rectory partly on bound of Carter and on the West by the Market Street. To have and to hold said granten and bargained premises with the privilege and appurtenances thereof to him said John A Jostlin his heir and assigns forever In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands forever
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29 and seals this 26th day November 1853 In Presence of Joseph T. Coffier Benjamin Green Frances Boemoes J.P. George W Cross L.S. Washington Co Charleston town Nov 26th 1853 Personally came before me Frances Boemoes & George W Cross and acknowledged the within instrument by them signed to be their free & voluntary act Joseph T. Coffier Justice of the Peace [Diagram of plot of land] North 80 W 11 44 Area 3 Acres South 80 E 11 44 15 14' 27 2' 15 14' Received Dec 3rd 1853 by Elias Brown T.G. Book 29 pg 26 18 11 44' Whereas Robert Hazard (one of said Joseph) f. Charleston Rhode Island on the 1st day of August AD 1840 made & executed a Mortgage Deed of absolute trust of land in said town containing one hundred and seventy acres more or less bounded Northerly by the line of the Wrights lots & lanes bounded Northeasterly by the line of the Wrights lots & lanes bounded Easterly by the line of Edward Millers bounded Southeasterly by the line of Robert Moore & Westward by the line of Christopher E Champignon now belonging to the said C. Moore or his heirs & bounded westerly with all appurtenances it bound’s to the said Robert Hazard by Deeds from Jordan Champignon to Mr. Joseph Millery Administrator of the Estate of Nehemiah Edward Millery For secure the payment of a debt due from Nehemiah Edward Millery to Jordan Champignon having since then made to the Estate of Edward Millery note on the 18th day of February 1833 assigned over said Note & Mortgage act to Edna Potter of South- Kingstown and has been appointed her successor as administrator over the Estate of said Edward Millery for possession of said land has since been delivered to said Edna Potter privately and the same is recorded in 16 bundles of the Town records under the General Registry of said State at their September session of 1833 authorized said Potter to sell all the right title and interest of said Estate unless to void Mortgage & debt & lane Mortgage and the same after further adjustment was sold on the 13th day of June AD 1848 further auctioned to Randall Lawson of Charlestown who was the highest bidder for the sum of fifteen hundred seventy five Dollars which sum has since been fully paid Now therefore I the said Edna Potter for the same consideration & by said authority for hereby bargain sell assign & convey unto said Lawson his heirs executors administrators & assigns all the right title & interest of the Estate of said Edward Millery has or which I now have as Administrator thereof in to the said Mortgage Deed and the net debt secure thereby and the land described in said Mortgage Deed with all the Buildings & appurtenances To have and hold

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 28).

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.