The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12073 › 12066

5/10/1817 · DEED · book 5 page 338 doc 12066

From CROSS PELEG JR life
To CROSS JOHN C life
Consideration One hundred and Sixty Dollars
Premises About Eight Acres · Certain Lot of Land (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

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

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

◀ 1817 · DEED · GREEN JEFFERY; GREEN FRANCES → CROSS PELEG · book 5 p 350
◀ 1817 · MORTGAGE · BURDICK JAMES; CHAMPLIN JEFFERY; BURDICK PRUDENCE; CHAMPLIN ANNA → CROSS PELEG JR · book 5 p 345
◀ 1808 · AGREEMENT · TUCKER NATHAN; CROSS PELEG JR → CROSS PELEG JR; TUCKER NATHAN · book 4 p 541
◀ 1802 · DEED · HOXSEY MARY; HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → CROSS PELEG JR · book 4 p 374
◀ 1802 · AGREEMENT · PERRY SIMEON; PERRY SAMUEL; CROSS PELEG; KINYON JAMES; CONGDON JAMES; → CROSS PELEG JR · book 4 p 381
◀ 1797 · DEED · BROWNING STEPHEN; BROWNING BRIDGET → CROSS PELEG JR · book 4 p 209
◀ 1797 · DEED · ALLIN JAMES; ALLIN ANNA → CROSS PELEG JR · book 4 p 230
◀ 1786 · DEED · CONGDON JOSEPH; CONGDON MARY → CROSS PELEG JR · book 3 p 477
◀ 1783 · DEED · POTTER MARY; POTTER DANIEL → CROSS PELEG JR · book 3 p 366

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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330 In Witness Whereof the said Reuben Burdick and Hazard Burdick have here set their hands and seals this sixth day of January 1807 Signed sealed and delivered In presence of Joseph Stanton jr Piley Cross Reuben Burdick [seal] Hazard Burdick [seal] State of Rhode Island &c Washington Co. ss Know all Men by these presents That I Piley Cross prop[ri]etor of Charlestown in washington County, State of Rhode Island &c the aforesaid in consideration of the Sum of One hundred and eight 1/2 dollars to be paid by John Copps Esq of town and County of G[utten]hutten the sum aforesaid by liberty of Secretary beverage a few just satisfaction and Correct’d HAVE and by these presents become & agree Convey and confirmto said Jn Copps Esq his heirs their and assigns forever a Certain Lot of Land situate in Ct Charlestown containing About Eight Acres by Estimation but the same more or less and is bounded as followeth Beginning at a heap of stones at the west side of the road by the railing, from therece a line Eastly Course a few rods about four feet South from therece to a stake from therece to a stump from therece to a stump from therece to a stone wall on its hollow part from therece the same Course to the line bounding the property on the East side of Cortland’s Cortland’s Course, thence a line South to a line border to accre a line thence having run the said Course to the line bordering the property on the South bounding me by a ledge of stones, Watery & the first mentioned bounds returning thence to the said Grantor. TO HAVE AND to hold the said Lot of Land and Demesnes of bargain and sale with all its rights appurtenances and privileges the advantages and appurtenances to the conveyance herein with Jn Copps Esq his heirs and assigns forever in perpetuity & the said Piley Cross the aforesaid agree joins before judge Burdick & Dimock their hands & seals this 5 August 1807 Signed sealed and delivered In presence of Samuel Stanton jr Jn B. Nearly Piley Cross [seal] Witnessed Mar 1. 1807 Piley Cross P.C. Washington Co. ss August 25. 1807 personally came Reuben Burdick & Hazard Burdick and made their seal or sign to the preceding instrument said Signed the same to be their voluntary act and deed Signed in Court Close Office August 25. 1807 by Order the Court Piley Cross P.C. Samuel Perry Esq J.P. Piley Cross P.C.

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.