The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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2/2/1944 · DEED · book 29 page 173 doc 12@29/173

From ECCLESTON RAY P, PHILLIPS DORIS W
To ECCLESTON CHARLES P life
Premises Lots 179 and 180 on Assessors' Plat 18 (Charlestown)
Index description QUONNIE

Back — where this land came from

deed William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes book 29 p 126 Charlestown
“conveyed to these Grantors by two deeds from William D. Cross... Book No. 29 at Page 126”
◀ Follow back 1943 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BOOTHMAN ERNEST R → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D · book 29 p 126
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deed William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes book 29 p 127 Charlestown
“the second of said deeds... recorded in said Records of Land Evidence... Book No. 29, at Page 127”
◀ Follow back 1943 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BOOTHMAN ERNEST R → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D · book 29 p 127
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1939 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P; ECCLESTON MATTIE D C → ECCLESTON JESSIE A; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 680
◀ 1939 · DEED · ECCLESTON MATTIE D C; ECCELSTON CHARLES P → PHILLIPS DORIS W · book 27 p 681
◀ 1940 · MORTGAGE · ECCLESTON CHARLES P; ECCLESTON MATTIE D C → ECCLESTON RAY P; PHILLIPS DORIS W · book 28 p 297
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · CRUMB ERSKINE DEHO → ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 631
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · GRIFFITHS THOMAS A → ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 644
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · TILLINGHAST EDWARD M → BRADY ALICE G; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 671

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

▶ 1944 · MORTGAGE · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → DOUSE ARTHUR T · book 29 p 174
▶ 1952 · AGREEMENT · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → ECCLESTON JESSIE A; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 33 p 226
▶ 1952 · MORTGAGE · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → COY EDWARD B · book 33 p 227
▶ 1952 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → WESTERLY HOME BUILDING CO · book 33 p 261
▶ 1953 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → WYATT ADELAIDE S; WYATT ANDREW H · book 33 p 474
▶ 1957 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → LENIHAN RUSSELL A · book 36 p 206

The instrument's own words

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271 We, William D. Cross and Celia M. Cross, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to Ernest R. Boothman, of the City and County of Providence, State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS Those two certain lots or parcels of land situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, as shown and delineated on Assessors' Plat 18, Lots Number One Hundred Seventy-nine (179) and One Hundred Eighty (180). Meaning and intending to hereby convey all our right, title and interest in the aforementioned premises as conveyed to these Grantors by two deeds from William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, Town of Charlestown. The first of said deeds bearing date of September 29th, A. D. 1943 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 29 at Page 126; the second of said deeds bearing date of September 29th, A. D. 1943 and recorded in said Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book No. 29, at Page 127. Reference to said deeds and the records thereof being hereby made and made and the same are made a part of these presents for a more complete and detailed description of the Premises hereby conveyed. The consideration of this deed is less than $100.00. We, William D. Cross and Celia M. Cross, release to said Grantee all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in and to the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands this 14th day of September, 1944. WILLIAM D. CROSS CELIA M. CROSS STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 14th day of September, 1944 before me personally appeared William D. Cross and Celia M. Cross, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public Received for record September 14th, A. D. 1944 at 3:10 o'clock, P. M., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk

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.