The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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9/23/1758 · DEED · book 1 page 410 doc 13871

From CLARK SARAH life, CLARK JOSEPH life
To FOSTER JOHN life
Consideration Three Pounds Sterling & 4 Shillings Sound Lawfull money of New England
Premises ten acres · A certain tract of parcels of land (Charlestown, Kings County)

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

◀ 1746 · DEED · STANTON MARY; STANTON JOSEPH JR → CLARK JOSEPH · book 1 p 191
◀ 1741 · DEED · CLARK SAMUEL → CLARK JOSEPH · book 1 p 43

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

John Walls

The instrument's own words

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(418) I do sell & right to [illegible] I, John Gorton of New Rhode Island gentleman of the Town of Smithfield in the said State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to wit (land evidence of the Town of Smithfield) John White and Henry Brown Husbandmen of the said Town Know all men by these presents that I do hereby Sell & Convey to the forenamed John White by John Bevan of Newport in the County of Newport gentleman witness & Person of the of said Property And whereby I am seized of the said Property and by these presents I do sell & Grant these lands to the body corporate and politic of the Town of Smithfield and to the Town Board dated December 7th August Seventh then further and full payment of the said sum of money with my Heirs brethren Descendants then given Granted and led into Conveyed & confirmed & by these presents to the Body Corporate & Politic of the Town of Smithfield the Grant of land Given to their father John Gorton his Heirs and Assigns forever the Body Corporate of the said Town lying in the Town of Smithfield in the County of Providence State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations containing 100 Acres & more bounded Northerly by the land of John Gorton on the North side and boundedly by the Land of the Town of Smithfield forming boundary and westerly on and boundedly by the Land of the Town of Smithfield and boundedly on the South side to wit the Grants of said wit and Providence Plantations as it is bounded on the North side up to the the sum Acres & half the other piece being bounded on the North side of the said piece the sum Acres & more bounded Northerly opposite & South of the said piece of land to wit by the North side of the said land markedly northerly by the Boundary line of the said piece the near by the Brook three chains running to the said Brook with the opposite side situated a the North side with the said Brook of the said Brook & three chains situated in the Brook northerly & easterly the Grant of the said land to the said Grantee & the said Grantee & his heirs forever with all the Rights Appurtenances & Privileges thereunto belonging in any way what Appertaining unto the said land of the said Brook of the said Brook of the said Brook 15 & their only successor the Benefit of the said Brook forever witness I the said John Gorton to the witness & Henry Brown & confirmed & conveyed & granted and confirmed given and confirmed to the said John White & confirmed to the said John Foster and Henry Brown & spouse thereof all & singular the above described Premises & the said Joseph White or my self with my Heirs brethren Descendants to be conveyed and confirmed Grant and to with the said John Foster and the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the sum Grant of the 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Thereafter to Warrant secure and defend the said Sarah Clark right of Joseph Clark both hereby freely and willingly give and grant and convey all that lot of land in the town and city of Providence to the before bargained premises unto the said Sarah her heirs and assigns forever for thing there Received In Witness whereof Joseph Clark and his wife for their hands hereunto to the said lands and estates of Tuesday fourth Day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eight the Great Seal of British [illegible] 1808 Signed sealed & Delivered Jos Prence [seal] Stephen Perry Simon Perry Rhode Island County to the above Solicitor Joseph Clark personally appeard off in my habitation Day of [illegible] an ocean abroad and at a house called Providence above and before Written this instrument be the said voluntary act and did hand & seal hereunto affixed [illegible] Before Simon Perry Justice of Peace The above and foregoing Deed Was Recorded 23 Day of July 18 1808 [illegible] To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting I. [illegible] the Clerk of the City of Charlestown in Kings County & Colony of [illegible] in New England governor for in consideration of the full and just sum of [illegible] current money of New England paid to me one in hand Before the Commissioner of the said Province with County paid by [illegible] of the County Courtly [illegible] Steve & Stephen the receipt whereof hereby Acknowledge and say that with fully satisfied conveyed Said Waste Land granted with All and Conveyed & confirmed by the owners delivery fully & absolutely Give Grant Warrant with all Convey & confirm unto the [illegible] theirs & assigns forever A Certain Tract of parcels of land situate lying & being in the town of [illegible] containing by estimation ten acres of land bounded & bounded as follows (viz) Beginning at a white post on the south East corner by the pond hence running 29 Degrees North East 200 Rods to a stone & thence from thence East 199 Degrees North & East 200 Rods to a stake & stone thence North 224 Degrees East 116 chains to a stake to a stone by the County Road

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.