The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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4/16/1744 · DEED · book 1 page 115 doc 13610

From WILLCOX STEPHEN
To WILLCOX WILLIAM
Consideration five hundred Pounds Currency and Money of New England
Premises one hundred and thirty acres · Land at the North side of a road (Charlestown, Foley's Streamlet)

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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

◀ 1743 · DEED · DYRE SAMUEL → WILLCOX STEPHEN · book 1 p 92

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

Peter Thomas · Samuel Money · Samuel Clark · Samuel Clark

The instrument's own words

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To all people to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. This year being 1744 of Charlestown in the County of Kingsforts and Colony of Providence Plantations in New England to wit years for and in Consideration of the Sum of five Pounds Sterling and other Money of lawful money to Me the said [illegible] by William Williams of the town and County aforesaid of New England to wit Stephen Williams with said William doth hereby grant bargain and sell and confirm unto my Self fully seized hereby promised and forever Given Grant and sell to buy the Right Title of Me my sole heirs and assigns against forever Peace and Quiet of Ever Course and to execute the same to him the said Stephen either his heirs and assigns for the certain Piece of Land situate lying at the North side of my [illegible] Road as containing one hundred and thirty acres Lying at the North side of my [illegible] Road as following to wit Northerly bound by [illegible] on Foley's Streamlet and so and more West more one hundred and [illegible] feet southerly on the Eastern Lot and so West more [illegible] and shortly on a high way of [illegible] southerly on the Eastern Lot and so West more [illegible] to the start and to have and to hold all the above bound Premises to him the said Stephen with his heirs and assigns forever in all that the said [illegible] the [illegible] and with all the rights and privileges formerly appertained to the [illegible] part of a [illegible] from all Manner of pieces of Grass bogs pasture fields and [illegible] of the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Dwellings Houses or other [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] And that the Right of Way of the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the said Stephen either with at the Beginning a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the said Stephen either to continue on the [illegible] a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] constant and [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] to him the said Stephen either his heirs and assigns forever the said the same to him the said Stephen either his heirs and assigns forever against all Men’s Law and a sign and against any person pretending to have a right what soever. Lastly I name the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Right set fit my [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the said Stephen Williams have Right here to be [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] unto set fit my [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and a sign and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] In the year one and one thousand seven hundred and forty four Signed Sealed and Delivered [illegible] Stephen [illegible] Williams (Seal) [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Robert [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] John [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Kings County of Providence approved the above Witness Stephen either with the Day of the Date above Mentioned and me furnished the same to him in this act and did hand and Seal same in due set Before Me John [illegible] Justice Peace This above Deed is Recorded this 15th Day of April 1744 By Wm [illegible] [illegible]

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.