The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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8/12/1952 · DEED · book 33 page 228 doc 3247@33/228

From ECCLESTON JESSIE A, ECCLESTON RAY P
To ECCLESTON CHARLES P life
Premises Three tracts: Lot 18 Plat 11, Lot 122 Plat 10, Lot 78 Plat 2 (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

execution book 27 p 513 Charlestown
“purchase for non-payment of taxes, dated May 10, 1952 and recorded in Book 27 at Page 513”
◀ Follow back 1944 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · FEDERAL LAND BANK OF SPRINGFIELD; LAND BANK COMMISSIONER; FEDERAL FARM → CLARKE MARY A; CLARKE THOMAS J · book 27 p 513
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deed William M. Griffiths as Collector of Taxes book 27 p 605 Charlestown
“purchase for non-payment of taxes thereon by deed of William M. Griffiths as Collector of Taxes”
◀ Follow back 1939 · TAX SALE RETURN · BAKER ELEANOR D; BROWN FRANK H; CULLINAN ALICE J; DOLDT LEILA F; CONNO → · book 27 p 605
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deed William M. Griffiths, Collector of Taxes book 27 p 671 Charlestown
“purchase for non-payment of taxes thereon by deed of William M. Griffiths, Collector of Taxes”
◀ Follow back 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · TILLINGHAST EDWARD M → BRADY ALICE G; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 671
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1939 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P; ECCLESTON MATTIE D C → ECCLESTON JESSIE A; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 680
◀ 1952 · AGREEMENT · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → ECCLESTON JESSIE A; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 33 p 226
◀ 1940 · MORTGAGE · ECCLESTON CHARLES P; ECCLESTON MATTIE D C → ECCLESTON RAY P; PHILLIPS DORIS W · book 28 p 297
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · CRUMB ERSKINE DEHO → ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 631
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · GRIFFITHS THOMAS A → ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 644
◀ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · TILLINGHAST EDWARD M → BRADY ALICE G; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 27 p 671

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1952 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → WESTERLY HOME BUILDING CO · book 33 p 261
▶ 1953 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → WYATT ADELAIDE S; WYATT ANDREW H · book 33 p 474
▶ 1952 · AGREEMENT · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → ECCLESTON JESSIE A; ECCLESTON RAY P · book 33 p 226
▶ 1952 · MORTGAGE · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → COY EDWARD B · book 33 p 227
▶ 1957 · DEED · ECCLESTON CHARLES P → LENIHAN RUSSELL A · book 36 p 206

The instrument's own words

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228 I, RAY P. ECCLESTON, lately of the Town of North Stonington, County of New London and State of Connecticut and now of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES P. ECCLESTON, of said Town of Westerly with WARRANTY COVENANTS (Description, and WARRANTY COVENANTS, if any) Three certain tracts or parcels of real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, said County of Washington and State of Rhode Island and described, shown and designated as follows, to wit: FIRST TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of real estate shown and delineated as Lot No. Eighteen (18) on Assessors Plat No. Eleven (11) and taxed to the heirs of Erskine Crum on the 1938 Charlestown Tax List, being the same premises conveyed to me upon my purchase for non-payment of taxes, dated May 10, 1952 and recorded in Book 27 at Page 513 of Charlestown Land Evidence Records. SECOND TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of real estate shown and delineated as Lot No. One Hundred Twenty-two (122) on Assessors Plat No. Ten (10) and taxed to Thomas A. Griffiths on the 1938 Charlestown Tax List, being the same premises conveyed to me upon my purchase for non-payment of taxes thereon by deed of William M. Griffiths as Collector of Taxes, dated May 10, 1952 and recorded in Book 27 at Page 605, Collector of Taxes Charlestown Land Evidence Records. THIRD TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of real estate shown and delineated as Lot No. Seventy-eight (78) on Assessors Plat No. Two (2) and taxed to Edward M. Williams on the 1938 Charlestown Tax List, being the same premises conveyed to me upon my purchase for non-payment of taxes thereon by deed of William M. Griffiths, Collector of Taxes, dated May 10, 1952 and recorded in Book 27 at Page 671 of Charlestown Land Evidence Records. The consideration for this deed is such that no revenue stamp is required. I, Jessie A. Eccleston, wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaidescribed premises. WITNESS our hands this 30th day of June, A. D. 1952. RAY P. ECCLESTON JESSIE A. ECCLESTON STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) ) County of Washington { In Town of Westerly on the 30th day of June, 1952 before me personally appeared Ray P. Eccleston and Jessie A. Eccleston, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. JOHN M. DUNN Notary Public. Received for Record August 12th, A. D. 1952 at 2:25 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

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.