The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4423

5/4/1875 · DEED · book 10 page 152 doc 4423

From GAVITT COURTLAND N BY GUARDIAN life
To BLIVEN BRADFORD life
Premises 35 acres, 15 acres, 10 acres, 100 acres · Undivided parts of four parcels including salt marsh and buildings (Charlestown, Westerly)

Back — where this land came from

heir Joseph S. Bassett
“heir at law of Joseph S. Bassett”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma
heir Thankful Barrett
“what the said Courtenay would heir, at the death of his Grandmother Thankful Barrett”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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.

Bounded by

Joseph Bradford · Noah Gavitt · Nathaniel Moore · George W. Sherman · Simon Clark · Edward Wilcox · George M. · Joseph Wilcox · Olive Harris

The instrument's own words

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152 [illegible] to have and hold the same with the all [illegible] of tenements to the same [illegible] the said [illegible]’s heirs for [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] capacity of Guardian [illegible] [illegible] the 17th day of April 1815 G. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] James H. Wood [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Charles Congdon Clerk Received for record April 14th 1815 It 10 o'clock & it was recorded by Charles Congdon Clerk Know all men that I Constantine M. Bassett of Newport Rhode Island Guardian duly appointed by the Court of Probate of said Newport of the Estate of Courtland M. Bassett a Minor Child and heir at law of Joseph S. Bassett entitle me by virtue of power and authority to sell at private sale the Real Estate of said ward granted me in my said capacity of Guardian by said Probate Court, namely a piece of land entered on the first day of February 1793 and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and thirty three and Four dollars pursuant to the condition of said probate the appraised value of the land hereafter described and granted to me in said capacity made by Broadfoot Bliven of the town of Westerly county of Washington and State aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby as Guardian as aforesaid grant bargain sell and convey unto said Broadfoot Bliven his heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest and property
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of said Courtenay N. Barrett and what the said Courtenay would heir, at the death of his Grandmother Thankful Barrett it being an undivided one sixth part of that parcel of land situated in the town of Charlestown county of Washington and state aforesaid it being bounded and described as follows The east of which is bounded on the north by land of late Joseph Bradford Esqr one the highway south by lands of theirs of late Joseph South west by land of late Noahy and others a hundred otherwise the same may be better delineated or described containing thirty five acres more or less Also an undivided little part of another parcel of land in said town of Charlestown aforesaid beginning at the south east corner of land of Studley Hall thence north east 78 1/2 west 29 chains and 58 poles to land of Joseph Mackenzie and land of George N. Sherman on the west for many rods that the parallel line with the south line will measure sixteen rods thence east a straight line to Simon Clark third thence southerly by said Clarks land to the first mentioned bounds containing fifteen acres more or less Also an undivided one sixth part of a salt marsh lying in the town of Charlestown aforesaid containing ten acres by the same more or less bounded easterly and northerly by the fall pond Estate by the old breach and southerly by the land of the heirs of Edward Wilcox Also an undivided one sixth part of one other lot of land and the buildings thereon standing situate partly in the town of Charlestown and partly in the town of Westerly in said county and state aforesaid bounded northerly on land of George M. Carlyle and the commons easterly on land of late Joseph Wilcox south by the salt ford and westerly on land of Oliver Harris or however otherwise the same may be bounded describing containing one hundredly acres by the same more or less I have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto said his heirs and assigns to his and their full and behoof forever Provided I and the said Antoinette N. Barrett for myself my heirs executors and adminis- trators do covenant with the said Bradford Bliven his heirs and assigns that in making the said sale I have in all things observed the rules and dimensions of the land
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154 that I myself and my heirs shall warrant and defend the abve granted premises to him the said Bradford Brown against the lawful claims and demands of all persons [illegible] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, as Guardian as aforesaid this eighteenth day of February AD 1845. Signed sealed and delivered In the presence of A. N. Gavitt Guardian L.S. Daniel P. Bull for Courtenland N Gavitt Joanne R. Nicoll State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Newport Ss In Newport in said County on this eighteenth day of February AD 1845 Then personally appeared the faithfully signed Antoinette N Gavitt the subscriber to the aforesaid instrument to be her free and voluntary act & deed as Guardian aforesaid Before me L.S. Daniel P. Bull Notary Public Recied for Record April 7th 1845 at 3 oclock PM & Recorded in Land Evidence of westerly R.S. Book No 24 at page 239 Witness S. H. Cross Town Clerk Recied for Record May 4th 1845 at 2 oclock PM and Recorded by S. H. 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.