The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4719 › 4719

8/5/1881 · DEED · book 11 page 12 doc 4719

From KENYON JAMES A life, KENYON LUCIE A life
To TEFFT DAVID C life
Consideration twenty dollars
Premises none · piece of land bounded by beach grass and land of H. Gorton (East Greenwich)

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

◀ 1857 · DEED · DAVIS ELIZABETH; DAVIS PRESERVED JR → KENYON JAMES A · book 8 p 160
◀ 1864 · MORTGAGE · KENYON REBECCA R; KENYON THOMAS A → KENYON JAMES A · book 8 p 472
◀ 1847 · DEED · KINYON MARY; KINYON JOSEPH → KENYON JAMES A; KINYON JAMES A · book 7 p 252

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

▶ 1883 · DEED · STEERE FREDERICK; STEERE LOANZA; WELLS WILLIAM H; WELLS MARY E; QUILTY → DURFEE CHARLES A · book 11 p 174
▶ 1887 · MISC · TEFFT DAVID C; HOXSIE JOHN W → HOXSIE JOHN W; TEFFT DAVID C · book 11 p 453
▶ 1896 · DEED · TEFFT DAVID C; TEFFT CAROLINE D → WHITE JOEL W · book 13 p 211
▶ 1908 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · TEFFT DAVID C → TEFFT WILLIAM E · book 14 p 232
▶ 1913 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → LOXLEY SAMUEL; LOXLEY HANNAH A · book 17 p 437
▶ 1914 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → CRANDALL STEPHEN B; CRANDALL LOUETTA O · book 18 p 135
▶ 1914 · DEED · TEFFT CAROLINE L; TEFFT DAVID C → CRANDALL STEPHEN B; CRANDALL LOUETTA O · book 18 p 137
▶ 1916 · WILL · TEFFT DAVID C → · book 18 p 333

Bounded by

B. D. A. Tefft

The instrument's own words

page 1
12 Know all men by these presents that I James A. Kenyon of East Greenwich, County of Washington State of Rhode Island for and in consid- eration of the sum of twenty dollars to sole paid by David B. Sefton of Providence in said county aforesaid, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and agree, released and forever quitclaim, & by these presents do claim & forever quit claim unto the said David B. Sefton his heirs and assigns free & clear all the right title and interest which I may have any right to in a piece of land lying in and in a certain part of piece of land situated in said East Greenwich, and bounded as follows: beginning at a stake in the northwest corner of said tract of a stake in the beginning of the northwest corner of said tract of a stake in the northwest corner of the slope of the beach grass at now names there whichly along one hundred feet to a stake, being the ground line Survey to find more precisely of the said James A. Kenyon there boundary about a hundred feet in the slope of said beach grass opposite Dexter to the first mentioned boundary bounding westerly on land of H. G. [illegible] opposite the stake by the granite boundary easterly by land now of property of Gen. H. Gorton also southeasterly by the beach boundary by similar about 150 feet more or less [illegible] further and boundary holmes the same with all the right in rights and of appurtenances thereunto appearing belonging to him the said David B. Sefton his heirs and assigns forever, and I the appearant James A. Kenyon for myself and my heirs, executors, next of kin, executors and administrators of covenant with the said David B. Sefton his heirs and assigns that will warrant to defend the aforementioned premises to the said David B. Sefton his heirs and assigns forever against any and all claims aligns & demands of all persons claiming by virtue of the grant unto me and Louis A. Kenyon with all of the grants in consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid to forever release and forever quitclaim all my right of Over in the aforementioned premises to the said granting his helps and presents forever In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 5th day of Aug 1881 Signed sealed & delivered in my presence Geo. S. Lawoss James A. Kenyon SS Lucie A. Kenyon SS State of Rhode Island &c Washington sc Aug 1881 Personally came James A. Kenyon and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free act & deed before me, George S. Lawoss Town Clerk Received for record Aug 5th 1881 at 2 oclock P.M and recorded by George S. Lawoss Town Clerk

The page as recorded

page 1

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.