The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11368 › 11212 › 12929 › 12930

9/26/1777 · DEED · book 3 page 257 doc 12930

From CHURCH CHARLES life, CHURCH SUSANNAH life
To HOLT WILLIAM life
Consideration Forty two Pounds
Premises none · piece of a field called North field (Charlestown, North field)
Also on this page: DEED GAVIT JOSEPH

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

◀ 1774 · DEED · CHAMPLIN JESSE ADMINISTRATOR; HILL JOHN ESTATE → CHURCH CHARLES · book 3 p 157
◀ 1774 · DEED · CASE PHILIP → CHURCH CHARLES · book 3 p 175
◀ 1773 · DEED · KINYON THOMAS → CHURCH CHARLES · book 3 p 104
◀ 1771 · DEED · PERRY ELISABETH; PERRY STEPHEN → CHURCH CHARLES · book 3 p 64
◀ 1769 · DEED · KINYON MARTHA; KINYON DANIEL → CHURCH CHARLES · book 2 p 391
◀ 1759 · DEED · PERRY SAMUEL → CHURCH CHARLES · book 1 p 422

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

George Hayward Pockham

The instrument's own words

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257 Know all men by these Presents, That we Benjamin Taylor & Thomas Taylor both of Charlestown in the County of Kent State of Rhode Island, send for and in consideration of ten Pounds lawful money to me in Hand paid by George Gidney ability of the said County, as a full and final Claim Deed from the said Kent Co. to the which is known per Cert. of Execution, and in consideration thereof the aforesaid Benjamin & Thomas consent step, and prove Seven Acres more Land to be laid under Deed Grant in the Town of Warwick province in the same year and the presents be dated on the 23rd day of August 1777 & consent do agree to have a piece of a field called North field Ltd lying in said Charlestown, Kent Province contiguous around, & it is bounded as follows namely beginning at a large Rock standing in the Middle of the East Branch of a Line from said Rock to a large Stone in a Line Engrs & Dwelling house, then running North westerly, in a Straight Course to a large Rock standing to the North of the first Rock, and East of a Rock, and Westward of the Dwelling house above described between Samuel Butler family holding running in said Line toward said first Rock until it comes to the East Side, in the West Part, and extending Southward on said East side first Rock, and Northward & Eastward on Edward Millers & John Gidney's Land to the first mentioned Rock. To have and to hold all and singular the premises to him his heirs and assigns forever to him his heirs in Law to live and forever have and hold the said Benjamin Taylor & Thomas Taylor down to engage for the forever the forever said Land his Heirs and Assigns against the Claims of any person or persons claiming by or under me or our Heirs or Assigns in Witness whereof we have here to set our Hands & Seals the 22nd Day of August 1777 Benj. Taylor (Seal) Thomas Taylor (Seal) Signed sealed & delivered in presence of Henry Moore [illegible] The foregoing Deed was recorded in the Record book named September the 10th 1777 by Jos. Congdon Reg. of Kent Regd. Court of Charlestown Anno Dom 1777 22nd August Then personally appeared the within Conveyors Mr Benjamin Taylor & Thomas Taylor both the Day and Date above of age and declared to me the within written Instrument to be their inventory all’s’ Deed Hand & Seal Repr Congdon Recorden’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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208 and confirm unto their said Son William Pott his Heirs and Assigns forever a certain Lot of Land with a Dwelling House thereon standing situated in Charlestown above the v. o. and by Robins Lot at the corner Square One and a half hundred Boundedly and Naturally by the Highway called By George Wood's Way [illegible] and boundedly by a Pond commonly called Long Pond said Lot by the highways To have and to hold all the above described Premises with the Heritages advances and Appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining not from the said William Pott his Heirs and Assigns to him and to his heirs for any purpose Benefit and Right forever and the Creator Owned for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth seem covenant grant and agree to warrant and to the said William Pott his Heirs and Assigns forever against and for all the time of this grant he in the true sole and lawful Buyer of all the above bargained Premises and from hereditary Right of the same in any other person Right as of a good right and an absolute Estate of Value home in the said Premises having in imminent good root Title and right and the right of the sum in Tenure as aforesaid And that the said William Pott his Heirs and Assigns by force and order of this Deed shall fully and may forever here after name rate dote enjoy occupy inhabit and enjoy the said Land and clear of all Manner of Tenures or the Rights Grants Bargains Votes Notes Mortgages Wills Deeds Estatesentures Deeds mortgages or any other Instruments whatsoever that might result or made void the said Deeds furthermore he the Charles Church and his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth covenant and agree all the before described Premises unto him the said William Pott his Heirs and Assigns against the lawful Claims and Demands of any Person whatsoever here for the same forever and defend said Jonathan Church Wife of the said Charles Church doth for the Consideration here in for conveying her fulls and whole and entire right yield up and surrender all her Right of Descent and Power of Deeds of in and unto the before described Premises unto him the said William Pott and his and Assigns forever. In Witness whereof we the said Charles Church and Joanna his Wife have hereunto set our Hands and Seals the Twenty eighth day of August 1792 Bond signed sealed & delivered In presence of Robt Cross [illegible] [illegible] Kings County Court The foregoing Deed was made on the 28th day of August 1792 on the 29th day of August 1792 By Jno Congdon Jp At Charlestown on the 29th Day of August 1792 Came the within Subscribers Charles Church & Joanna his Wife and acknowledged the within & foregoing Instrument to be their free Act and Deed Hands and Seals there affixed Taken in Robt Cross Just Peace To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Daniel Anderson of Charlestown in the Colony of Rhode Island Yaman Just Greetings That we that the said Daniel knowles for and as Consideration of the Sum of Thirty Pounds lawful Money of the Colony paid to me in Hand already paid by Amos Crane of Charlestown aforesaid Yaman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and my full therefore fully subscribed and contented and thereof I do hereby assign-

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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.