The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4473 › 4185

12/27/1879 · DEED · book 9 page 267 doc 4185

From PECKHAM DRUSILLA life, PECKHAM HAZARD life
To GATES ANDREW J life
Consideration Eight hundred & fifty dollars
Premises [illegible] acres four hundred and twenty four hundred Square feet · a certain lot and parcel (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1876 · MORTGAGE · ENNIS GEORGE N; ENNIS LOUISA → PECKHAM HAZARD · book 10 p 236

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

▶ 1888 · DEED · GATES ANDREW J; GATES FRANCES L → FREEMAN WILSON W · book 12 p 7
▶ 1906 · DEED · GATES ANDREW J; GATES FRANCES L → GATES HERBERT A · book 15 p 427
▶ 1906 · DEED · GATES ANDREW J → GATES HERBERT A · book 15 p 429

Bounded by

Daniel G. Peckham · Samuel Peckham · Samuel Peckham · Daniel P. Peckham

The instrument's own words

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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come. 267 I Margaret Peckham of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor Send Greeting. Know All That I the said Grantor for and in consideration of the sum of [illegible] dollars to me in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid by [illegible] [illegible] of State [illegible] said Charlestown hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and that therefore fully satisfied extinguished and paid; and therefore of every part and parcel thereof do execute and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Grantee Grantor have given granted bargained sold all and sundry enclosed conveyed and confirmed; and liens, executes and administrations forever by these presents; I do hereby fully and absolutely give grant release convey and confirm unto the said Grantee his heirs and assigns forever a certain [illegible] lot and parcel situated in said Charlestown containing [illegible] acres four hundred and twenty four hundred Square feet on the same or very like terms as well founded and described as follows beginning at a post where the land of the Grantor and land of the Grantee join thence at the corner of a wall thence bearing westerly bounding by lot of the Grantor be hundred and twelve feet to the Stake and Stone thence Southerly bounding westerly on land of the Grantor forty feet to the end of the wall thence Easterly to another end of a wall thence Easterly bounded Southerly on land of the Grantor to the place of beginning—the said Grantee his his heirs and assigns is to make and preserve maintenance at the line fence between the lot hereby conveyed and land of the Grantor To have and to hold the said grant and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commoditites to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Grantee his heirs and assigns forever to them and their only proper use benefit and behalf forever. And I the said Grantor do covenant grant and to the said Grantee his heirs executors and administrators do covenant grant and to the said Grantee his heirs executors and administrators his heirs and assigns that at the due and lawful entering hereof that the true sole and lawful owner of the above bargained land and premises lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right and good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance is for single and sole purpose of the said Grantee his heirs and assigns to be held and enjoyed by them and their heirs and assigns premises in manner as aforesaid. And that the said Grantee beirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever free and clear of all manner of taxes’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s
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268 Know all men by these presents that I Samuel H. Southam & Jonathan S. Southam, citizens of the st. & town of [illegible] deceased of Westerly, County of Washington & state of Rhode Island, join & concur in the bequest & convey to State of aforesaid assignor of said Policy to the said Saml H. Southam late its grant Melity, decrease and give hereby of a said policy further conveyance of four acres of land situate in Town of Westerly a piece of land of the said Melity’s Privileges of late Melity’s decreased by virtue of authority contained in the said said Southam as questioned aforesaid by the county Solicitor general Melity’s for in the said action the sum of eight hundred & fifty dollars to be paid in current money by Legal tender to said said Melity the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge to be paid in full to these presents grant convey bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said Saml H. Southam his heirs & assigns forever a certain lot or parcel of land lying and being fully in said Melity’s full and completely in absolute ownership by estimation bounded above to the said [illegible] nor do act otherwise dealing here and therefore improve them standing and bounded as following namely Firstly by the Traverse of the Road Easterly by land of said Southam deceased having formerly been the property of Jonathan Southam from Despote to [illegible] bounded westerly by land of Samuel & [illegible] or however otherwise named may be and is bounded and on the Southern front of [illegible] Southam late its of Melity decreased then a road and said the said grantor guaranteed forever not to the fixtures and appointments thereof said lot of land said land’s bounded north to the said Saml H. Southam his heirs and assigns forever and said land’s bounded South to [illegible] Southam Mother D. Tennger and assigns do covenant that said said Melity land for ourselves and our heirs executors and assigns that we will warrant and defend the said land to the heirs the said Saml H. Southam his heirs will against any claims against the lawful heirs and descendants of all family claims by them unless the said title or of her or her heirs transfer the said title to said Southam & decreased said I Samuel Southam further covenant to the said Saml H. Southam his heirs that I will warrant and defend the said land and our successors and by the said covenant to aforesaid my self that the said title does according to the directions of said court of probate therefore furthermore relative to the said title that provides that therefore it is agreed here between the full and final application of the parcels of land relative to saying that in every respect that I will allow transferred to the heirs of Melity said Southam’s land and the heirs of the state the premises the further I have agreed to sell and convey and that I will warrant and defend the same against the claims of all persons claiming by purchase mortgage etc or by the right of heirs under the said title then the said lands being and constituted the purity land granted some sufficient to the said code and the right to pass and regard to preserve of the same at all times forever So witness our seals me Samuel H. Southam Mother D. Tennger Jonathan S. Southam, John D. Tennger assigns signed sealed and delivered the day of March 18th 1868 before me’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

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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.