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10/5/1855 · DEED · book 8 page 116 doc 10754

From GAVITT LORENZO D life, GAVITT MARTHA life
To DAVIS PRESERVED life
Premises seventy acres [and] seventy acres more or less · two lots of land (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

unknown Samuel Perry
“property formerly owned by Samuel Perry late of said Charlestown Deceased”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1857 · DEED · DAVIS ELIZABETH; DAVIS PRESERVED → HAZARD DANIEL · book 8 p 181
▶ 1867 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS PRESERVED → LARKIN DAVID R · book 9 p 211

The instrument's own words

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186 Know all men by these presents that we Martha Gavitt and Lorenzo D Gavitt the said Lorenzo by indent in the sight of the said Martha of Charlestown in the County of Wash- ington & State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sums of One Hundred Dollars paid to us by Preserved Davis of said Charlestown the receipt whereof we do hereby ack- nowledge do hereby remise release and forever surrender unto him the said Preserved Davis his Heirs and Assigns forever all the right title and interest which we have in and to two certain lots or pieces of land lying in said Charlestown the first or first lot is bounded on the North by the Land of David Clark on the East by Samuel Moylan on the South by the land of George W Cross and on the West by Matthew J Hopkins and Samuel Brown containing by estimation seventy acres the second or Second lot is bounded on the East by John Potter and on George A Stanton on the East by (unknown) Downing on the South by the Church and on the West by the Marsh (Samuel Ward) containing by estimation seventy acres more or less the said right hereby conveyed being the one undivided one half part of the whole the said property formerly owned by Samuel Perry late of said Charlestown Deceased To Have and to Hold the same with all the Privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to him the said Preserved Davis his Heirs and Assigns forever And we the said Martha Gavitt and Lorenzo D Gavitt for ourselves our Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant with the said Preserved Davis his Heirs and Assigns forever that we will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises against all the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by Title through or unless us In Witness whereof we here unto set our hands and Seals this 4th day of October 1853 By ourselves Charles Cross Martha Gavitt L.S. James M Cross Washington ss State of Rhode Island sc Charlestown Oct 5 th 1853 Personally appeared before me Martha Gavitt and being examined privately and apart from her Husband and having the foregoing instrum- ment read and explained to her by me acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed and that she signed the same without fear or compulsion from her said Husband and that she did not wish to retract the same Charles Cross Town Clerk Recorded Oct 5 th 1853 by Charles Cros Town Clerk

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 116).

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.