The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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4/18/1827 · MORTGAGE · book 6 page 157 doc 12403

From HARVY SILAS life, HARVY HANNAH life
To STANTON SAMUEL life, HOXSIE EDWARD life
Consideration five Hundred and thirty five Dollars and 50 Cents
Premises Sixty acres and some odd’s or more · land lying in and about the dwelling House, Charlestown, Charlestown
Also on this page: MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT JOHNSON THOMAS · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE HARVEY SILAS

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

◀ 1827 · DEED · PECKHAM HANNAH; PECKHAM SARAH BY GUARDIAN → HARVY SILAS · book 6 p 152
◀ 1827 · LEASE · HARVY SILAS; HARVY HANNAH; HARVY REUBEN T → HARVY REUBEN T; HARVY HANNAH; HARVY SILAS · book 6 p 165
◀ 1827 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL; HOXSIE EDWARD; WILCOX EDWARD → HARVY SILAS · book 5 p 457
◀ 1806 · DEED · WILLCOX PELEG; WILLCOX DINAH → HARVY SILAS · book 4 p 459
◀ 1806 · DEED · BRAND SAMUEL; BRAND NANCY → HARVY SILAS · book 4 p 460
◀ 1806 · DEED · SHEFFIELD MARCY; SHEFFIELD EDMOND 2ND → HARVY SILAS · book 4 p 461
◀ 1806 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; STANTON THANKFULL → HARVY SILAS · book 4 p 468

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

▶ 1827 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL; HOXSIE EDWARD; WILCOX EDWARD → HARVY SILAS · book 5 p 457
▶ 1832 · DEED · STANTON SAMUEL → STANTON JOHN · book 6 p 268
▶ 1834 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL → CRANDAL JESSE ESTATE OF · book 6 p 219
▶ 1837 · AGREEMENT · GARDNER SAMUEL; HOXSIE EDWARD; PECKHAM JAMES; SAUNDERS AUGUSTUS; HAZAR → · book 6 p 387
▶ 1838 · AGREEMENT · GARDNER SAMUEL; HOXSIE EDWARD; PECKHAM JAMES; SAUNDERS AUGUSTUS; HAZAR → · book 6 p 412
▶ 1839 · DEED · HOXSIE ELIZABETH; HOXSIE MARTHA; HOXSIE EDWARD; HOXSIE ANN; HOXSIE THO → · book 6 p 531
▶ 1844 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL → WILLCOX JOSEPH · book 7 p 85
▶ 1853 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL → WILLCOX JOSEPH D · book 7 p 251
▶ 1854 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · STANTON SAMUEL → BURDICK EDWARD T · book 7 p 474
▶ 1857 · DEED · KENYON MARY S; STANTON JOHN; STANTON SAMUEL; BROWN SARAH ANN; KENYON J → · book 8 p 197
▶ 1869 · DEED · BROWN SARAH A; KENYON MARY E; STANTON JOHN; STANTON SAMUEL; KENYON JAM → · book 9 p 354
▶ 1885 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · STANTON SAMUEL; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 2 → KNOWLES SAMUEL M · book 11 p 326

The instrument's own words

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Know all men by these Presents that I Silas Knowes of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island & Provs Yeoman for and in Consideration of the sum of five Hundred and twenty the forty Dollars and fifty Cents cash and promissory notes paid and promised by Edward Howie and Samuel Stanton both of the same town and County aforesaid to me paid and promised, the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and thank them I have granted bargained sold and conveyed and do hereby grant sell bargain sell and convey unto them Henry Howie and Samuel Stanton their heirs and assigns for ever the following described piece of Land lying in Charlestown containing by Measurement Sixty acres and some odd’s or more all lying in and about the dwelling House then standing there and is bounded easterly to the North by Christopher Champneys land bounded southerly on Foley’s land bounded westerly on the North by [illegible] and on the South by [illegible] and further to the North by all the above described lands and Northerly on the [illegible] roads and to the South by [illegible] and to the same bounding lines the same abutting and joining others to the south the said Edward Howie and Samuel Stanton their heirs and assigns and Assigns forever to possess the said property in fee simple bought and paid for as aforesaid And the said and Assigns forever to possess the said property in fee simple bought and paid for as aforesaid And the said Edward Howie and Samuel Stanton their heirs and assigns hereby agree with me the said Silas Knowes and Stanton that the heirs and assigns that the same would be sued in for Simple of the Premises and will warrant Seize and Defend the same to the said Howie and Stanton their heirs and Assigns forever against the claims of all persons --- and Hannah Knowes my wife of the said Silas Knowes says that she joins in the consideration above expressed by her seal hereunto set her right of Dower and Homestead in the said piece of land and with the said Premises to the said Edward Howie and Samuel Stanton to hold as aforesaid. Provided that these Premises are Contingent on the Condition that the said Silas Knowes his heirs persons Stanton or their Assigns shall and lawfully try and cause to be tried to the said Edward Howie and or Samuel Stanton the said sum of five hundred and forty Dollars and fifty Cents in law or in the form of a law or obligation in the following proportions Edward Howie one hundred and forty five Dollars and seventy five cents and to Samuel Stanton four hundred and ten and seventy five cents on the twenty fifth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and twenty with Interest from the date of signing this Indenture to the said payment Eighty cents every year to the said sum be paid forward whereas and in that case that this Deed of Bargain and sale is to be Null and Void to return to be and remain in full force and virtue in every sense in all ways In witness whereof we have done set our hands and Seals this 19 Day of March 1827. [Signed] Silas Knowes [Signed] Hannah [illegible] [Signed] Mary [illegible] By [illegible] Nathan Taylor Elias Stanton [illegible] State of Rhode Island Co of Washington for St Charlestown the 20th day of March 1827 acknowledged the foregoing Instrument to be their signed to this fee Voluntary act and Deed land and sale with the premises contained Deposed [illegible] Certd to be a true copy of the above written Formally conveyed some times Silas Knowes & Hannah his wife and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 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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.