The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4016

4/10/1866 · DEED · book 9 page 98 doc 4016

From AUSTIN MATTHEW S life, AUSTIN MARY life
To SISSON RANDAL life
Premises one half a half acre · lot with dwelling house and other buildings (Westerly)

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

◀ 1841 · DEED · CARD CHRISTOPHER P; CARD ABIGAIL → AUSTIN MATTHEW S · book 7 p 44

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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98 Providence ber — for Providence April 2nd AD 1869. — Narragansett Co. Hazard and Narragansett Hazard severally acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them signed to be their free act and deed — before me, Geo. M. Carpenter Received for Record April 8th 1869 at 10 o'clock P.M. Justice of the Peace and Recorded by Ebenezer Cross Clerk Know all men by these presents that I Matthew S. Austin of one thousand of Westerly in the county of Washington two and in the State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars paid by Randol DetailPage of the town of Westerly in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Randol Detail his heirs and assigns, a certain lot or parcel of land with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon lying and being in said Westerly containing by my estimation one half a half acre more or less and bounded as follows namely by land of Samuel Manning Northly on East road westerly and Northwesterly by land of Stephen Harris his heirs To have and to hold the above granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Randol Detail his heirs and assigns to his or their use or uses forever And I the said Matthew S. Austin for myself the my heirs executors administrators do covenant with the said Randol Detail his heirs and assigns that I have lawfully signed in due form of the appropriate authorities that they are free from all encumbrances that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Randol Detail his heirs and assigns forever and that I will warrant and defend the same forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons one In witness whereof I thousand Matthew S. Austin and Mary Austin my wife in their own proper voice of all her right of tenure and power of therein in the premises hereunto set our hands and seal this 27th day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty six Signed sealed and delivered Signed and sealed and delivered In presence of Matthew S. Austin Mary Austin L.S. William S. Austin Stamp Mary Austin L.S. George P. Austin L.S. State of Rhode Island sc Washington Co. sc In Westerly in said county on this 27th day of March 1866 Then personally appeared Matthew S. Austin subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary act and deed before me William P Coy J Public Notary Received for Record April 10th 1866 at 6 o'clock P.M. and Recorded by Charles Cross 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.