The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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7/6/1770 · MORTGAGE · book 3 page 27 doc 12706

From NILES SILAS life
To WICKHAM CHARLES life
Consideration One Thousand Spanish Milled Silver Dollars
Premises none · description illegible (none)
Also on this page: RELEASE FINLAYSON FRANK MORTON EST · RELEASE DEVLIN JOSEPH H EST

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

◀ 1770 · DEED · STANTON THANKFUL; STANTON JOSEPH JR → NILES SILAS · book 3 p 25

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

Joseph Stanton · Joseph Stanton · Christopher Babcocks

The instrument's own words

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27 Know all Men by these Presents that they Abraham [illegible] and Mary [illegible] their wives [illegible] [illegible] and George Martin [illegible] their wives [illegible] on the premises [illegible] in the town of East Greenwich [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] Charles Wickham [illegible] their [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] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 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28 Joseph Stanton's Land. The other of 3 Tracts of Land contains seventy acres and a quarter and is bounded Northerly partly on Land of Ge[or]ge Joseph Stanton and partly in Westalong part Easterly on Land of Ge[or]ge Joseph Stanton just Southerly on the Post Road, and all westerly partly on Land of Ge[or]ge Joseph Stanton and partly on Land of Christopher Betts. The above 3 Tracts include all the Land that the 3 Siles Nile bought of Joseph Stanton in Charlestown. To have and to hold the above Granted and Bargained Premises with all the Priviledges appurtenances and Commoditions to the same Belonging to my said wife Siles Nile and her thrived Charles Nickham her Husbend and his Heirs and Assigns forever to her and their only Proper Use the Benefitt and Chief forever. And I the 3 Siles Nile for myself my Heirs Executors and Assigns do Covenant promise and agree with the said Charles Nickham his Heirs and Assigns that she and her Heirs shall deliver and Delivery hereof from the true Sole and Lawfull Owner of the above Bargained Premises and as Lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper Right as a good perfect and absolute Sole of inheritance in Fee simple and have in my own proper right of full and clear and Lawfull liberty to sell and Dispose of the same in all manner as above and that the said Charles Nickham her Husbend and his Assigns shall from time to time and at all times forever hereafter by force and Order of the present Indenture Quietly and Peaceably and Securely have Hold Enjoy and possess the said Bargained and Premises with the Appurtenances free and Clear and Free and Clearly and Clearly Executed Bargained and Discharged of and free from all and all Manner of forms and other the like Great Bargains Sole Large Mortgages Writs Estreats Decrees Judgments or Instrumenations for her Name or her own Power what so ever any Indenture or Degree Contract or operate on this Present Indenture Furthermore I the 3 Siles Nile for myself my Heirs Executors and Assigns do Covenant and Engage the above Domained premises to the said Charles Nickham her Husbend and Assigns against the Lawfull Claims and Demands of any person or persons whoever forever to warrant Pound and Defend by their Present Provided Nevertheless these and these Presents were upon Conditions that if the 3 Siles Nile her Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall will and hereby pay or cause to be paid in the said Charles Nickham his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns the full and just Sum of Five Thousand Pounds Three Millon Dollars in gold or silver on the 11th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and seventy one then the above and below and for part of the better Part cause and boxes Mill Ord and or some value or part out of other wise then the Present Deed shall abate and Summar in full for it’s Value according as the true state whereas hereof My Witness whose the said Siles Nile have hereunto set her Hand and Seal this twenty fourth day of June in the Year the Fourth of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God Great Britain France and Ireland King declaring Signing off the fourth of the And in the Year of our Lord One thousand four hundred and seventy Signed Sealed & delivered) February 11 1771 Charles Nickham & Siles Nile in presence of us Phil Gregs Siles Nile At Say Subscribes the above Statement and understands Joseph Stanton the above belonging to her her Beneficiary After died with her husband the sponging Deed and terminated the 6th day of July 1774 by Judge Robert Foster Justice Peace

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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.