The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13665

5/11/1744 · DEED · book 1 page 168 doc 13665

From CLARK SAMUEL life
To THOMAS PELEG life
Consideration Eighty Pounds Current Money of New England
Premises [illegible] · [illegible] piece of land (Charlestown, James County)
Also on this page: RELEASE BRENNAN THOMAS 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

◀ 1742 · DEED · BAKER JOHN; BAKER SUSANAH → CLARK SAMUEL · book 1 p 83
◀ 1742 · DEED · SANDS SUSANAH; MOYLES WILLIAM; FARMON ARON; FARMON SARAH; FARMON ELISA → CLARK SAMUEL · book 1 p 68

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

William Willcocks

The instrument's own words

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To all People to whom these [illegible] 1681 [illegible] shall come Greeting Know that I Samuel Clark of Charlestown in the County of James County along of Province and the Province Plantations in New England remain for the Use and Duration of the some of England and the Council of Majesty of by Me the Hand and by the Public Power of the Council in the County of do appoint the Receiver better of the said Samuel Clark the [illegible] and with the most of my full power fully constituted and appointed these present Burgesses and all the [illegible] and the [illegible] to Me the Hand and by the [illegible] these Great Burgesses also state of the County of James and for some time him’s [illegible] Public Powers his heirs and assigns for ever [illegible] some or more of [illegible] [illegible] in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] acres to be the same [illegible] or less [illegible] and [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on the [illegible] [illegible] and East on the [illegible] belonging to the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] a piece of land [illegible] [illegible] in the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to be [illegible] and [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] until the time to the [illegible] [illegible] for Merchants [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Burgesses and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] above [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] seal and [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] that Nature [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that the said Samuel Clark of the said [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] is warranted and for given [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and [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] than to the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] my hand and seal the [illegible] [illegible] day of May in the year of our [illegible] [illegible] my hand and seal the [illegible] [illegible] day of May in the year of our [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] Samuel Clark (seal) John Mill [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Charlestown in James County The [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the Date above written are as [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] witness to be the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] John Mill by Doace Recording a [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] April 1785 [illegible] [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.