The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13261

7/21/1762 · DEED · book 2 page 101 doc 13261

From MONEY JOSEPH ESTATE life, BROWN BERIAH SHERIFF life
To YORKE JOHN life, PIERCE ISAAC GUARDIAN life
Premises thirty acres · Piece of land lying in the Colony of Rhode island and providence (Charlestown, Westerly)
Also on this page: RELEASE PECKHAM CLARA F EST · RELEASE CORYELL FRANK EST

Back — where this land came from

execution Henry Wills
“Do by virtue of a Writ of Execution in the county of Kings County issued to me”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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 Parks · Joseph Parks · Joshua Babcock

The instrument's own words

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Signed Sealed & Delivered In Presence of Stephen Saunders Lydia Saunders (111) Silas Greenman &c Westerly Feby 22 1762 the above Subscriber Personally appear and acknow ledged me therefore Instrument to be his Act & Deed Hand and Seal to be free me Stephen Saunders Justice The above Instrument was recorded 26 May 1764 Geo Hope Town Clerk To all People to whom these presents shall come I Isaiah Brownly of South Kingstown in the County of Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island Sheriff of Said County of Kings County Said State Greeting a horse & four yoke of Oxen therefore have them in the County of Providence a set of cattle in the County of Kings County in August some and He at last Joseph Smith late of the said land deceased Deceased Do by virtue of a Writ of Execution in the county of Kings County issued to me for payment to the general assembly’s collector Stephen Albro and collection a Hospital in the 15th Day of January AD 1759 then in the year and been levied on the 15th Day of January AD 1759 then in the year and Seven hundred and Seventy three more on Henry Wills Deceased the petitioner shall pay Seven pounds eleven shillings & 6 pence for the recovery thereof to save the said Willes and alleviate Signature and execute recovery whereas the same was levied on the said Wills Real estate again him which Recourse on the said Wills Real estate King in Westerly by Joseph Money then one of the Deputies of the Sheriff of Kings in who to wit the said Joseph Money Depy Shf said land situated in Kings County who to wit the said Joseph Money Depy Shf said land situated in Federal District land and he moving the English to Rhode Island then the region of the Petitioners said Father was conveyed by the Sheriff of said Land of the Petitioners said Father was conveyed by the Sheriff of said Land which contains about forty acres and all the Same that the said Willes with all the contains about forty acres and all the Same that the said Willes with at that time in Westerly by me therefore have the Petitioners prayed the general court by to make Inquiry into the matter aforesaid and pass a Writ of execution to the Sheriff of Kings County to give the Petitioner a Deed of said Land at a died Assembly Westerly clothings attorney to Henry Wills then at law of Henry Willes Deceased appeared and did agree that thirty acres of land belonging to said Henry in his life time were Deed and conveyed to the Pe
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1794 Epiph. John Gorke Father to the Petitioners and in his capacity as in behalf of her Establish ment the said Elizabeth Gorke and d. e p of her but since the partition between gosh then it was the aforementioned should be granted in part with that he’s [illegible] piece of the house mentioned in said Petition be with the Body the Premises as they are as per Petition said Gorke and others, the remaining Contents and Con veyance of Henry Henry Williams described, for which he letting the said Piece piece as agreed to the said John Gorke D. agree ment, and a more from the said General Assembly by the Bench that he’s ordered being County be Directed and Empowered to give the af fore said Henry County be Directed and Empowered to give the af fores areas of the Land show mentioned to the Petitioners according to the ex tracts given Now therefore by these presents I Daniel Berrian Sheriff of the County of [illegible] province do hereby by virtue of said writ of scire facias and in obedience and conformity Kings command by attorney in place of said and in obedience and conformity Kings command by attorney in place of said [illegible] and in consideration of the said publick order made by the above sta tutory to the Petitioners Father as aforesaid therefore do hereby bargain and sell and convey unto the said John Gorke and to his heirs and assigns forever store size breast or Piece of land containing thirty acres of app charles the lower and partially in Westerly lying in the Colony of Rhode island and pro vidence following the south on the boundary road south on land of Joseph will’s road on land of Epiph. John Gorke his east partly on land of Joseph Parke and west on hand of Joshua Babcock To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances thereunto annex’d unto the said John Gorke his heirs and assigns for ever and the said Berrian to Sheriff as aforesaid do Covenant that by his force and [illegible] of the re assembly against [illegible] I have good right and lawful title hereby to sell and Convey the land Bargained premises in Manner as above said and the said John Gorke his heirs and assigns shall and may enjoy the same and at all times forever hereafter by force and title of this pre sently lawfully peaceably and Quietly have occupied possessed in Manner as above said and To above ground Premises with all the appurtenances thereunto annex’d and Clearly requested and [illegible] discharged formally and numerically what soever and the said Berrian as Sheriff as aforesaid Do forever under the force & operation of the date of said order aforesaid warrant as af fore said ground premises unto the said John Gorke his heirs and assigns a gainst the lawful title Claims & Demands of his heirs of the said Henry W. [illegible] [illegible] all other claims remaining by former and under any other [illegible] In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fifth Day of February in first Year of his Majesty’s Reign 1794 The third thing of Gorke Claim and &c
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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.