The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 5906

4/2/1903 · DEED · book 14 page 395 doc 5906

From CHURCH ISADORE E life
To CROSS WILLIAM D life
Premises three acres more or less · lot of marsh land (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

heir Joseph B. Church
“son of Joseph B. Church late of Charlestown R.I. deceased”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ (an instrument we do not hold)
“premises conveyed by deed from Isadore S. Church to William D. Cross”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1938 · DEED · BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS WILLIAM D DECEASED → JACKSON JOHN W · book 27 p 336
“conveyed by deed from Isadore S. Church to William D. Cross”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1944 · DEED · AKERS CHARLES O; AKERS MARGUERITE → DUHAMEL EDWARD C; DUHAMEL HARRIET M · book 29 p 160
“conveyed to Emma C. Akers by deed... the heirs at law of Samuel Bowning”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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

▶ 1905 · DEED · CROSS WILLIAM D; CROSS MARTHA S → KENYON ORRIN F · book 15 p 168
▶ 1938 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BARBER EMMA E · book 27 p 440
▶ 1939 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CROSS WILLIAM D; CROSS CELIA M · book 28 p 25
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 246
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS WILLIAM D DECEASE → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 247
▶ 1941 · TAX SALE RETURN · CROSS WILLIAM D; DAVID JOSEPH B; GILMARTIN EUGENE R; CENTRAL TOOL CO; → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; LASKEY HOWARD G; TIMPERLEY J WILLIAM; TIMPERLEY R · book 28 p 474
▶ 1942 · TAX SALE RETURN · CLARK CLARENCE L; CROSS WILLIAM D; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; MINER ETHEL; T → GREEN HATTIE; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CROSS WILLIAM D; GREEN ERNEST · book 28 p 693
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W DECEASED → BROWN ALBERT E · book 29 p 180
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BOOTHMAN ERNEST R · book 29 p 271
▶ 1944 · TAX SALE RETURN · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CLARKE EDWARD M; CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; → · book 29 p 285
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WALKER ALICE L · book 29 p 296
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → GRIMES EMILY R; MCVAY ELLEN E; BROOKS ELIZABETH J · book 29 p 424
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CLARKE EDWARD M · book 29 p 519
▶ 1946 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WOODMANCY GLADYS M; WOODMANCY WILLIAM N · book 30 p 259
▶ 1948 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → LEWIS GEORGE H · book 30 p 678
▶ 1949 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 31 p 594

The instrument's own words

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395 time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public within and for said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who is commissioned and sworn, and residing in said county of Berkshire, and duly authorized to take the same, and an officer authorized by the laws of said commonwealth to take the acknowledgment or proof of deed to be recorded herein, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary Public, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of acknowledgment is genuine. For my testimony hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsfield this 31st day of March 1903. Frank L. Gamble Clerk SS Received for record April 2nd 1903 at 2:30 o'clock P.M., and recorded by George Cross Town Clerk Know all Men by these Presents, That I Irador E. Church of the City and County of New London, State of Connecticut, son of Joseph B. Church late of Charlestown R.I. deceased, in consideration of the sum of five dollars paid to me by William G. Cross of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, behind the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever Quitclaim unto him the said William G. Cross his heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest property claims and demand which I now have or of right ought to have, or claim in and to a certain lot of marsh land situated in the town of Charlestown aforesaid, containing three acres more or less, bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of land of Wm H. Head by a small creek, thence easterly by said creek six chains, thence southerly by said creek to a cart path, thence westerly by said path to the channel, hence southerly by said channel to first bound however otherwise bounded. To have and to hold the same, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining unto and to the use of him the said William G. Cross his heirs and assigns forever. Signed the aforesaid named Irador E. Church for myself and for my heirs.
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396 executors and administrators as covenant with the said William Glover his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said William Glover his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through or under me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three Signed and sealed in presence of Isadore E. Lehrnuch L.S. Osea T. Kingsbury State of Rhode Island County of Providence The Providence on the twenty third day of March A.D. 1903 before me personally appeared Isadore E. Lehrnuch of New London in the County of New London and State of Connecticut to me known, and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and the acknowledged said instrument by her executed to be her free act and deed. Richard W. Jennings Notary Public Received for record April 2nd 1903 at 3 o'clock P.M. and recorded by George L. Barnes Town Clerk KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that I Olney P. Gound of the City, County and State of New York hereinafter called the grantor, in consideration of one dollar and other valuable considerations to me paid by Mary L. Bennett of Providence hereafter called the State of Connecticut hereinafter called the grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain sell and convey unto the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever, a certain lot of land situated at Summerfield Beach in the town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island bounded and described as follows, beginning at the Northeast corner of Cottage lot owned by said grantee thence Northerly in continuation of the East line of said cottage lot to the highway Thence westerly along said highway sixty feet thence Southerly to the boundary

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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.