The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4790

11/24/1882 · DEED · book 11 page 117 doc 4790

From RHODE ISLAND STATE OF life
To PALMER CALVIN B life
Consideration 30 Dollars
Premises roughly five (5) acres · lot No 25 on a plat entitled "Bobbin's Reservation, Cedar Swamp" (Bobbin's Reservation, Cedar Swamp, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

Before this deed: the Narragansett reservation
The State of Rhode Island is the grantor because the Act of 1880 (detribalization) ended the tribe's title to its reserved tract — about 64 square miles carved out of Ninigret's cession of 28 March 1709 (State Records, Land Evidence 3, p. 273; Tucker, Historical Sketch of Charlestown, 1877, pp. 23–24) — the State paying $5,000 for the common lands, all but two acres, and selling them in lots in 1882–84. This deed is one of those sales. Behind it stands tribal land, not an individual's; the chain back from here is the tribe's, and the roll of 1880–84 (324 names) says who the tribe was. From Ninigret — every such instrument ▸
grant Act of the Legislature
“lands assigned to the said state as provided in said act”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1880 · DEED · NOKA JOSHUA H; SEKATER DANIEL; MICHAEL BRISTER C; THOMAS BENJAMIN; AMM → RHODE ISLAND STATE OF · book 10 p 537

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

▶ 1902 · DEED · PALMER CALVIN B → BARBER THOMAS H; REYNOLDS GEORGE B; BARBER & REYNOLDS · book 14 p 321

The instrument's own words

Attribution under review. The portal's file number is shared by more than one instrument, and the words below could not be placed with certainty on this one by their own evidence (page stamp, parties, dates); they may belong to a neighbouring instrument. Read them as the record of the page, not yet as this deed's own.
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here, has heremto affixed the name and seal of said State, this 17th (seventeenth) day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty two signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Saml. P. Colt L.S. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations By Samuel Black General Treasurer State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Providence County ss This seventeenth day of August A.D. 1882 personally appeared before me Samuel Black General Treasurer of said state and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free and voluntary act and deed of said state and his free and voluntary act and deed individually and in his capacity as General treasurer as aforesaid, B. M. Robertson Notary Public Approved August 17 1882 Saml P. Colt Attorney General Received for record & filed 24th 1882 at 10 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George E. Cross Town clerk Whereas Dwight R. Adams of Warwick in the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island George Carmichael of [illegible] in the county of Washington and said state and William P. [illegible] of Newport in the county of Newport and said state were appointed commissioners under authority of the Act of the Legislature passed at the January session A.D. 1880 of said state entitled "An Act to establish the fuller authority and legal relations of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians" and before preparing upon the performance of their duties they were proportionally of said act were engaged to the faithful discharge of their duties; And whereas these commissioners after having made the report and plat mentioning in section 6 of said act have been received in the office of the form clerk of the town of Charlestown in said county of Washington pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court of said state advised the lands assigned to the said state as provided in said act into lots or parcels in such manner as was deemed by them likely to facilitate the advantages also thereof and gave notice that said lands would be sold at public auction commencing on tuesday the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1882 at oclock in the evening of a day at a near the Sleighs Meeting House in said town of Charlestown by advertisement in the Easterly Herald and the Narragansett Herald less newspapers published in the county of Washington in the Providence Daily Journal" a and that "Providence Evening News" his newspapers published in the city of Providence and in the Newport Mercury" a
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118 newspaper paper published in the city of Newport for more than thirty days prior to the time of said sale. And whereas said commissioners of said time and place, and at an adjournment of said sale of which said commissioners gave public notice at the place where such sale had been; they having last notified to the body of the time and place to which said sale was adjourned, for and behalf of said state, did make sale of said lands by public auction to the highest bidders Therefore, on this [illegible] (eleventh) day of July, A.D. 1882 lot No 25 on a certain plat entitled "Bobbin's Reservation, Cedar Swamp" surveyed and platted by Mr. J. Greene, which said plat is to be recorded in the records of land evidence in city of Charlestown and which said lot containing roughly five (5) acres, was sold to Calvin B. Blinn of North Smithfield for the sum of $x Dollars the being the highest bidder whose which said sum has since been received by said commissioners. Know all Men by these Presents, That the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for and in consideration of said sum of $x Dollars received of aforesaid said buyer they have given, grant bargain sell alienate shift and convey to said Calvin B. Blinn his heirs and assigns, his lot No 25 hereinbefore described to have and to hold the same to him said Calvin B. Blinn his heirs and assigns forever. And whereas, Samuel Delano, General Treasurer of said state for and in behalf of said state, by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by said act and free of all other annuities in this behalf hereunto bind himself and heirs the name and seal of said state this thirteenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred and 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198 Lee, Edward L. A.P. 16, Undivided, 1, Lot 1133, Amount due, 60¢ Received for record December 13th, A. D. 1955 at 10:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk TAX DEED KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS that I, William D. Cross, of the Town of Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, Collector of taxes for said Town of Charlestown, send greeting: WHEREAS, the Board of Assessors of said Town did, on the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1953 at twelve o'clock noon, make and set annual valuations on all the ratable real estate and tangible personal property and the ratable intangible personal property real estate and tangible personal property and the ratable intangible personal property in said Town ; and whereas said Board of Assessors before said meeting set notice of said meeting to be posted in three public places in said Town ; and whereas said Board of Assessors before said meeting being so notified having been placed in said Town for three weeks next preceding the time of said meeting ; and whereas said Board of Assessors did further cause published in the Westerly Sun, a weekly newspaper published in the Town of Westerly, a notice of said meeting ; and whereas said Notice notified every person in said Town of better to make application to said Board of Assessors for three consecutive weeks next preceding the time of such meeting ; which said notices notified every person in said Town of better to make application to said Board of Assessors before afternoon, 1953 at twelve o'clock p.m. between that time and that the 12th day of January, A. D. 1954 at 4 o'clock, p. m. to appear before said Board of Assessors at the Town Hall of said Town by him or his agent describing and specifying the value of every parcel of such real estates and personal estate, said notices being published in said Westerly Sun on november 26th and 31st, 1953 and on january 1st, 1954. AND WHEREAS, the Electors of the Town of Charlestown voted on november 20th approx- sition to impose a tax, Electors Town Meeting legally assembled on the 15th day of April, A. D. 1954, by a resolution, approved by a majority of votes, providing for collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal property and ratable intangible personal property of real estate in said Town ; and whereas said resolution provided that the tax be paid on december 31, of December, A. D. 1953, at twelve o'clock noon, and to be collected in accordance with the directions contained in said resolution and at the time specified. AND WHEREAS, the Board of Assessors of said Town in accordance with said law order- ed by said Electors of said Town did apportion said tax levy on the inhabitants of said Town and at the ratable property in said Town in proportion to the annual valuations as they had been said Assessors as of the last day of December, A. D. 1953, at twelve o'clock noon in accord- ance with law, at the rate of $1.10 per $100.00 of valuation, and the tax on the ratable estates, by the rate of $2, on each $100, valuation of ratable real estate and tangible personal property in said Town, the same being a total sum of $11,117.10, and whereas said resolution of not less than $14,000 but not more than $844.10, a. r in accordance with said resolution of property in said Town, the same being a total sum of $11,117.10, and whereas said resolution of not less than $14,000 but not more than $844.10, a. r in accordance with said resolution of the Town Treasurer of said Town with a warrant under the hand of said Treasurer to collect the tax and to collect the same from the persons liable therefor, or out of money therein expressed of the persons and estates liable therefor, and WHEREAS, said Board of Assessors did then and there assess and apportion said levy upon the land, described hereinafter, as a portion of said tax, the sum of $1.10 as tax uon the land described hereinafter, and whereas said tax has not been paid. And in consequence thereof I, said William D. Cross, Collector as aforesaid, by virtue of authority vested in me as Collector of taxes for said Town, did give notice in said Town and did give notice for three weeks prior to said sale in the Westerly Sun, a newspaper published in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, said notice being published on november 27, and november 3, 1955, there being no newspaper published in said Town of Charlestown in accordance with statutory provisions particularly that said notice be posted in four public places in said Town; viz: Post Office, prior sale past up the Town Hall, and at the Town Hall, and at the Town Hall of the Town of Carolina, R. I., Wright's Salvage Garage, Carolina, R. I., and at the Town Hall of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., and at the Town Hall of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., all located in said Town of Charles- town, R. I., and in the said notice it was stated that in accordance with state statutes concerning town, that the estate described in said notice, (of the levy upon which notice is given) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the tax, costs and expenses thereon, would be sold at public auction to the highest bidder at the Town Hall in said Town of Charles- town on monday the 7th day of november, A. D. 1955 at two o'clock p. m. (Eastern Standard Time), a copy of which said notice is attached hereto and made part hereof.

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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.