The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11395

2/8/1797 · DEED · book 4 page 207 doc 11395

From COTTREL ELIAS life, COTTREL SALLEY life
To STANTON LODOWECK life
Consideration Twenty five Pounds Four shillings Lawfull Silvers money
Premises Seven Acres more or less · Piece or Tract of Lot of Land (Charlestown)

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This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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. Colonial deeds rarely cite book and page; the land is followed by its bounds and its abutters from here. 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.

Bounded by

Edward Williams · Joseph Gavit · Joseph Gavit · Oliver Gavit · Oliver Gavit

The instrument's own words

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207 Know all men by these Presents that I Elias Cottrell of Westerly in Washington County and state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Yeoman for and in consideration of the Sum of Twenty Nine Pounds Seven Shillings lawful silver money generously well and truly paid by Leonard Stanton of Charlestown in said County of Washington to remain the Sum of [illegible] of my full satisfaction and content have Given Granted bargained and Sold by me and these presents to be forever granted Bargained Sold Allen Jolly per se and Westerley County I Yeoman from under the said Leonard Stanton his Heirs & Assigns forever One Certain Piece or Tract of Lot of Land situate lying and being in Charlestown aforesaid Containing by Estimation Seven Acres more or less Butted and bounded as follows (viz) Beginning at a Stake south east in a meadow near where it is marked with two Pace poles and Lines & fences & boundaries of glass from thence South by the Degree west 41° 7' until he reaches a Stake stuck in the Marsh from thence South the Degree East 8° 4' until he reaches a Stake 26 poles south in a Marsh from thence North East Degree East 11° 4' Channels length until he reaches a Stake stuck in the south side of the great Marsh beside Brake fence bounding with the Southernly Corner bound of said Marsh to the first Bound mentioned and bounded Northerly on Edward Williams land March Eastly on Joseph Gandy’s land both march and bounded Eastly on River Gandy’s land I have also and into the said Granted and Bargained Premises together with all the Appurtenances for general use improvements whatsoever belong unto him the ld Leonard Stanton be his heirs and assigns in his Absolute Estate of inheritance in ample simple forever and the Elias Cottrell forever setting off my Heirs executors and Administrators forevermore to engage the aforesaid Premises land unto the said ld Leonard Stanton his Heirs and Assigns forever against all the Lawful Claims and Demands of any Person or Persons whatsoever whoever hereunto have to most Secure and Quiet by these Presents and Said Cottrell Seal with After the Same Attest the following approved both Gandy and such of and concerns not the bought Purchase and Owners of Third of an undivided Acres Demised Premises from the first Bound mentioned Leonard Stanton his heirs and assigns forever In Witness whereof i have hereunto set my hand and seal this South Day of September in the yr of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty two [illegible] to the above written to the Elias Cottrell intended between the forty eighty forty Ninth Line was attested before signing & sealing Signed Sealed and Delivered on Presence of Isaac W Colton Leon & Delivers David the Dud Hardy & Bery Wm Rely Capt Jf Elias Cottrell [seal] Salley Cottrell [seal] Washington County Westerly Wednd 8th Day of Sept of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty two Salley his wife and did ack and declared the instrument to be her free act and deed with these hands and seal and then appeared before me Vener Belivers Justice Peace

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.