The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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5/22/1958 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 10 page 398 doc 4569@10/398

From CHESTER ALBERT L life
To GAVITT ELEANOR life, GAVITT WILLIAM S life
Premises seven acres more or less · farm with dwelling house and other buildings (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED GATES ANDREW J

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

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⛔ 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 assessor does not cite book 10 page 398 (its history for each parcel goes back only a few transfers). The index is complete to 1987, but only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), and nothing after 1965 has been, so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
398 State of Rhode Island, ss. In Westerly, this 1st day of March A.D. 1878 William S Gavitt personally appeared before me and acknowledged the aforegoing instrument to be his own signature to his free and voluntary act and deed. And then after that on the same day, also Eleanor Gavitt wife of said William S Gavitt personally appeared before me and being by me examined privately and apart from her said husband, she acknowledged the identical deed which was presented to me shown and explained to her to be her free and voluntary act and deed and declared to me that she did not wish to retract the same. Saml. R. Cogswell Justice of the Peace Received for record March 21st 1878 at 11 o'clock A.M. By Geo. Coleman, Depy. Town Clerk I, Samuel R. Cogswell, Justice of the Peace in and for the Town of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the acknowledgment of William S Gavitt & Eleanor Gavitt as it appears in the original deed dated March 1st 1878 and acknowledged on March 1st 1878 and recorded in the Town of Westerly in the Land Evidence Records of said town in Book 272 page 187 in the year 1878 in the office of the Town Clerk of the town of Westerly and certified this 21st day of March A.D. 1878. Samuel R. Cogswell, Justice of the Peace ---- $1000 all more by these Presents That We William S. Tucker & Emily M Tucker his wife, Benjamin A. Crawford & Mary E Crawford his wife, Herman G White & the Rev E. C Ennis his wife, Oliver Hall of Charlestown, County of Washington State of Rhode Island for and valuable consideration of the sum of One Thousand Eighty Dollars to be paid by Eleanor F Gates of Charlestown the receipt of which we do hereby acknowledge in writing, release and quitclaim unto the said Eleanor F Gates her heirs and assigns forever all our right title interest in and to a certain tract of land or farm situated in said Charlestown containing by estimation seven acres more or less with on dwelling house & other buildings thereon bounded Northerly by the Granite Railroad bounded Southerly & Easterly by land of the Granite Railroad & Westernly by acres of Cyrus Watson & Thaddeus Michael Northby & Westerly by the highway & parcel of David Kenyon & Northby & Northerly by land of Hazard Stebbins & however otherwise described To have and to hold the same with all the rights & privileges to the same belonging to him the said Eleanor F Gates her heirs & assigns forever. Signed

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.