⛔ 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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Know all men by these presents That Welcome Barnes of Sterling in the county of
of Westerly and state of Rhode Island for and in consideration of the summing fifty
dollars paid and by Anthony Holcomb of Charlestown in the County of Sterling too
and state of Rhode Island related and determine Shantations the receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge I have granted to Anthony during years grant bargaining sell all acres containing with the said
Anthony Holcomb his heirs and assigns forever piece or certain house & parcel of
land lying in Town of Charlestown in the county of Sterling and state of
the State of Rhode Island and state of Rhode Island and state of Rhode Island containing by estimation
four acres of land be the same more or less her house in better as described
follow (viz) commencing at the northwest corner of Anthony Holcomb's House
not now in existence running a straight line North westerly by Anthony Holcomb
West wall be run by said lot till it strike a Wall running Easterly towards Barnes owning
Contiguity by the said Wall till it come to the highway thence South westerly thence
to Anthony Holcomb House then North westerly to first mentioned fence
I do than and hold the said grant and bargain forever promised with
the privileges and appurtenances thereunto to him the said Anthony Holcomb
his heirs and assigns forever to his heirs and assign their heirs and heirs of forever
And the said Anthony Holcomb is to build on the whole of the acres aforesaid and
lot any in do the desired fence wall and save lot in to keep in repair on fair
And I the said Welcome Barnes clear for myself my heirs executors and
administrators do covenant with the said Anthony Holcomb his heirs
and assigns that I do and will fully secure in his peace of the said premises
that they are free of all incumbrances of all persons
And I do waive my relinquish with my said Welcome Barnes for the consideration
aforementioned no acquire with my said Husband and grandchildren wife and
their successors all my right of Tenure and claims to the said Anthony Holcomb
his heirs and assigns forever
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal To
this 14th day of March AD 1857
Signed sealed and delivered in
presence of us as witnesses
Charles Cross
Martha B. Cross
Welcome Card L$
Lois Card L$
Washington C. (Charlestown March 14th AD 1857
Personally came Welcome Cross before me notary of the foregoing
instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary
act and deed Before me
Charles Cross Town Clerk
Recorded March 18th 1857
By Chas Cross T Clerk
State of Rhode Island
In General Assembly, October Session AD 1859
Whereas the Petition of Nicholas Vincent Your and abraham t Bernard
of Providence in the County of Washington praying in certain reasons
therein stated that the said tants (t) may be authorized and empowered
to convey with his said Husbands in the said area conveyance of a certain
piece of Real Estate held by the said estate lands in his right not declare
in the Town of Charlestown and bounded as follows to wit Namely
on lines of Boundings’ Sucker and Elias Tucker North westerly on lines of
Toghty Holcomb Easterly by lines of Charles Cross and daughterly
by rights of the Public Highway
And since revealed that the prayer of said Petition be granted
and that the said tants (t) be and is hereby authorized and
The page as recorded
No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 42).
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.