The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13743

3/21/1745 · DEED · book 1 page 247 doc 13743

From JOHNSON JOSEPH life
To POWLER GEORGE life
Consideration Sixteen pounds Two Shillings Current Money of New England
Premises Eight Acres and Twenty Seven Rods · Land and house at Charlestown (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

probate Nathan Palmer
“Administration of y^e estate of Nathan Palmer deceased”
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.

The instrument's own words

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To All People To Whom these Presents Shall come Greeting Know ye That I Joseph Sheldon of Charlestown in the said County in y^e Colony of Rhode Island Enumerator Gov^n & Co for Administration of y^e estate of Nathan Palmer deceased late of the said Town and County of Kent and by virtue of my said office & Sufficiency of Bond and Surety posted by George [illegible] and by these presents in hand set before me appearing by George [illegible] of y^e Town County & Colony of Kent More More [illegible] [illegible] of said County Northumberland of y^e said Town with the assistance of the Justices & Clerks have Given Grant Bargain Sale and conveyed (by & confirmed and by these Presents Do fully sell and Absolutely give Grant Bargain Sell all that Piece of Land lying & conveying in y^e Town of George Power the House and Appurtenances thereof at Charlestown that Part of y^e said Land lying and lying by Town & Colony above [illegible] containing & estimating Eight Acres and Twenty Seven Rods be it More Or Less Wide & Long and also Very Bargain and a half Acre Cake Piece having by y^e first way and then Bound by George White 13 Rods South East 32 Degrees East 22 Rods to a Stake Cake Piece having by y^e first way and then Three bounding by y^e High way and it follows through [illegible] with there about it which entails a Sum is a twenty [illegible] Southward of y^e Powder House [illegible] by y^e high way & then Exactly Vertical it follows through Rich Cake Piece half made of these Parts partially Vertical it follows through Rich Cake Piece half made of these Parts partially Vertical it follows through Rock with Stones On it & then North to a White Cake Post with Stones about it and then [illegible] of the North West [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Cake about it and then [illegible] and to y^e said [illegible] [illegible] & Bargain and present Stake into Water Mark and to y^e said [illegible] to have enjoy employing as in every way appurtenances’ Right and Privileges to have enjoy employing as in every Appertaining to y^e said George Power these Premises and appurtenances Forever to him Appertaining to y^e said George Power these Premises and appurtenances Forever to him and his Heirs [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] with y^e said George Power these My Law’s [illegible] and Authority [illegible] [illegible] to present and to sell and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] these and Appurtenances that purport & Conveying & Delivering [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] these and Appurtenances that purport & Conveying & Delivering [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Owner of above Bargain [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in my Power [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Full 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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.