The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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1/9/1857 · DEED · book 8 page 161 doc 10800

From PERRY OLIVER G BY GUARDIAN life
To BURDICK EDWARD T life
Premises six acres · tract of lot of wood land (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED HOXSIE MARY E

Back — where this land came from

division Commissioners appointed by the said Court of Probate
“the same being the Lot No 3 Whole fell to me in the division of the Commissioners”
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

▶ 1879 · DEED · BURDICK EDWARD T; BURDICK ESTHER S → RHODE ISLAND STATE OF · book 10 p 466
▶ 1882 · DEED · BURDICK EDWARD T; BURDICK ESTHER S → COLLINS ALFRED; GREEN BENJAMIN B · book 11 p 109

The instrument's own words

page 1
161 Whereas the Probate Court of Probate of the Town of Charlestown by this device dated Nov. 8th 1886 authorized Asa Church to be Guardian to the known and Estate of Olive & Story Minor White & Samuel Story late citizens of this district Decreed to make sale of the Real Estate of the said elders one that a deed made by said Guardian in conformity to said Asa White shall vest in the purchaser in fee simple and robe title to the same I do hereby Now and new that I Asa Church as Guardian & overseeas for one and in consideration of the sum of One Thousand & thirty dollars to me paid by bounnded J Brundage of said Charlestown he being the highest bidder at a Publick Sale of said premises held on the 20th day of December 1886, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby in my said capacity grant sell transfer and convey unto the said Brundage in fee I Brundage all the right title and interest which the said Asa White & Story Minor White in the following described land and Tenements viz a certain tract of lot of wood land lying in said Charlestown containing six acres the same being the Lot No 3 Whole fell to me in the division of the Commissioners appointed by the said Court of Probate to divide the Real Estate of the heirs of the late Samuel Story & his descendants follows (viz) on the West by the Highway leading Westly on the North by Otherman's Parte on the East part by Daniel Farrington & on the South by the farmel Wood So Have and hold to the above premises to the said Edward I Brundage his Heirs and assigns for ever In Witness whereof I have hereunto in my said Capacity as Guardian set my hand and Seal this 5 day of January 1887 Asa Church & Guardian L S In the presence of Benjamin G Brown Joseph H Griffin State of Rhode Island se Washington Co se Charlestown Jany 5th 1887 Personally appeared before me Asa Church as Guardian as aforesaid and acknowledging the foregoing Deed to be his sign to be His free and voluntary act Joseph H Griffin Justice of the Peace Recorded for Records Jan. 9th 1887 at 3 oclock P M Recuved Jan 9th 1887 by Chas Cross I C Clrk Know all men by these Presents that I Gideon Bossie f y Charlestown County of Washington state of Rhode Island for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars paid me by Mary E Coplien wife of Elijah Coplien of the Town County and State aforesaid, the receipt thereof i do hereby acknowledge do hereby remise release and forever quitclaim unto the said Mary E Coplien her heirs and assigns forever all the right title and interest which I have in and to certain tracts or Parcels of land lying in said Charlestown viz a first certain subdivision one hundred and forty acres be the same more or less with a Dwelling house and other buildings thereon bounded as follows beginning at the Highway that leads from the post office to Newport Bridge at the Southwest corner of the Northeast corner house fence then bounded Easterly on Indian Land to the Indian School house fence Then bounded Southerly to the Indian Cedar Swamp thence by said Swamp to Westly road corner a prime stump in the edge of said Swamp Thence Westly partly on land formerly owned by Thomas Austin and partly on Indian Land on the West

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 161).

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.