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4/19/1880 · DEED · book 10 page 529 doc 4656

From PIERCE RUFUS W life, PIERCE SARAH E life
To PHILIPS CLINTON life
Consideration five hundred
Premises seventy five acres more or less · tract of land situated partly in Colletonstown & partly in Wattsy (Colletonstown, Wattsy)

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

◀ 1879 · DEED · KENYON JAMES S; KENYON SUSAN A → PIERCE RUFUS W · book 10 p 467
◀ 1879 · DEED · KENYON JAMES S; KENYON SUSAN A → PIERCE RUFUS W · book 10 p 441

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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529 Know all men by these presents that I Rufus W Pierce of Wattsy in the county of Washington State of Rhode Island, for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred and seventy five dollars to me paid by Clinton Phillips of the town county & State as aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby grant bargain, sell and convey unto the said Clinton Phillips his heirs and assigns forever all the right title, interest property, claim & demand i have now or of right ought to have or claim in and to a certain tract of land situated partly in Colletonstown & partly in Wattsy aforesaid containing seventy five acres more or less & bounded as follows beginning at the Southeast corner of said lot & the North east corner of Roy Readys lot by the highway stones North 96° West 14 chains & 5 links as the wall now stands to a piece of old wall of a stone Wall the South west corner of this lot, thence North east to a bolt 22 chains & 22 links to a wall that now runs North North easty thence North West 63° West 3 chains & 32 links as the wall now stands to a stake and stones thence North 15° East 11 chains & 64 links to a stake & stones near the end of a wall lot belonging to the heirs of Jared Bailey thence South east 65° East 11 chains & 19 links to said highway as the wall now stands thence by said highway as the wall now stands to the place of beginning, however otherwise the same may be bounded. The right to remove all the wood now upon said premises is hereby reserved to the grantor to him his heirs and assigns — To have and to hold the same with all the rights pri- vileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining unto the use of the said Clinton Phillips his heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned Rufus W Pierce for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the said Clinton Phillips for his heirs and assigns that i will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises to the said Clinton Phillips his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through or under me and I Sarah E Pierce wife of Rufus W Pierce in consideration as aforesaid do hereby release all my right of dower in and to said premises to said Clinton Phillips his heirs & assigns forever. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 12th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 79 Rufus W Pierce L.S. signed, sealed & delivered Sarah E Pierce L.S. in presence of Jane W Coard
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530 State of Rhode Island &c county of Washington In Westerly this 18th day of May, A.D. 1879 the above named Rufus W. Moore acknowledged that the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free act and deed Before me I have there and then there the above named Sarah E. Moore, being by me examined privately and apart from her said husband acknowledged and declared the same instrument there shown, and confessed to her being my, to be her voluntary act and deed, and that she did not wish to revoke the same Before me Jesse W. Card Notary Public Received for Record May 18 A.D. 1879 at 11 o'clock A.M. Attest Frank H. Coffin Town Clerk Recorded 18 Westerly R.I. in Deed Book to 24 page 576 Witness Sam H. Coffin Recorder of Deeds Received for record in Charlestown April 19th 1880 at 11 o'clock A.M. and recorded by Charles Brown 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.