The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 3984

12/16/1865 · DEED · book 9 page 66 doc 3984

From BABCOCK CHARLES BY GUARDIAN life
To WILCOX BENJAMIN F life
Premises one centiare · part of a parcel containing one full acre (Charlestown)

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This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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. 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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66 Charles Molden payable on or before the said 25th day of March AD 1868 for the said sum of one hundred & forty five dollars (without interest) and having some date with them promissory shall be void and of no effect otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 23d day of September AD 1865 [illegible] in presence of [illegible] [illegible] S. D. Bullock L.S. [illegible] in presence of [illegible] [illegible] Mary S. Bullock L.S. [illegible] [illegible] Washington the 23d Sept 1865 Charles Cross Certainly appeared Albert S. Bullock & Mary S. Bullock, his wife, and I furnished them with a blank of the [illegible] and they did execute the foregoing instrument by signing their signatures to it before me for a consideration of five dollars paid to me by them and I did [illegible] the same to be their act and deed [illegible] Charles Cross Town Clerk Know all men by these presents that I Bradford Bliven Guardian to the person and estate of Charles Bullock both of Westerly County of Washington State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by virtue of a license from the Court of Probate of the Town of Westerly, me for the consideration of the sum of twenty cents paid to me by Benjamin G. Willey of Charlestown Town County and State aforesaid the undersigned I do acknowledge by these presents to grant bargain sell and convey unto him the said Benjamin G. Willey, his heirs and assigns forever one centiare part of a parcel of land lying and being in the town of Charlestown containing one full acre [illegible] and bounded as follows (viz) commencing at the Northeast corner of said lot then running Southly parallel Northly by parcel of land owned by Constanty [illegible] running Eastly by land of the [illegible] South by the sea and West by land of the heirs of Ann Billington deceased, to the first mentioned corner. To have and to hold the above granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or anywise appertaining to the said Benjamin G. Willey to have hold his heirs and assigns forever And I Bradford Bliven Guardian to charles Bullock covenant and agree with Benjamin G. Willey his heirs and assigns forever that I have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid in fee simple to him his heirs and assigns all right title and interest that charles Bullock had in and unto the aforesaid premises In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th day of December AD 1865 Signed sealed and delivered Bradford Bliven Guardian L.S. [illegible] in presence of [illegible] S. Bliven [illegible] M. Bliven State of Rhode Island Washington [illegible] Westerly December the 8th 1865 Personally appeared Bradford Bliven (Guardian), Signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his voluntarily act and deed Signed and Seal - Before me Humford Ho Knowles Justice of the Peace Recorded for Rhode Isl. Dec 8th 1865 at 9 o clock A.M. and Signed by Charles Cross 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.