The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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7/2/1956 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 15 page 343 doc 6176@15/343

From NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB
To PECKHAM GEORGE S life, PECKHAM THERESA M
Premises not described (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

This is the first alienation
The grantor is the sachem or the tribe, so this instrument is where this ground enters the town's land evidence. Behind it stands the reserved tract of 1709 — the Narragansett reservation, about 64 square miles, carved out of the roughly 130,000 acres of "vacant lands" Ninigret quit-claimed to the Colony on 28 March 1709 (State Records, Land Evidence 3, p. 273; Tucker 1877, pp. 23–24) — and, before the reservation, the Narragansett country itself. There is no earlier deed to follow; the land is followed from here by its bounds and its abutters. From Ninigret — every such instrument ▸

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

◀ 1938 · DEED · COLLINS JAMES C → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 27 p 465
◀ 1920 · DEED · HIGGINS SAMUEL M → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 19 p 353
◀ 1919 · DEED · THOMAS EMMA A → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 19 p 209
◀ 1911 · DEED · PECKHAM GEORGE S; DANA FREDERICK I; PECKHAM THERESA M; DEXTER HENRY C; → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 17 p 52
◀ 1911 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · PECKHAM GEORGE S; DANA FREDERICK I; BARKER HENRY A; DEXTER HENRY C → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 17 p 92
◀ 1911 · DEED · DANA FREDERICK I; BARKER HENRY A; DEXTER HENRY C; DARLING GEORGE C; DA → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 17 p 93
◀ 1911 · DEED · DANA FREDERICK I; DEXTER HENRY C; DARLING GEORGE C; DANA CLARA P → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 17 p 96
◀ 1905 · LEASE · DANA FREDERICK I; BARKER HENRY A; DEXTER HENRY C; DARLING GEORGE C; DA → NINIGRET COUNTRY CLUB · book 15 p 182

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 assessor does not cite book 15 page 343 (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

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the said mortgagees, or their executors, administrators or assigns, may effect such insurance in the name of the said mortgage and his heirs and assigns payable in case of loss to the said mortgagees, and their executors, administrators or assigns, and that the premiums or premiums paid therefor shall be a further charge upon said granted premises, secured by these presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 2nd day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty six. Signed and sealed in presence of George S. Peckham L.S. Theresa M. Peckham L.S. George G. Cross State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Charlestown on the 2nd day of July A.D. 1956 before me personally appeared George S. Peckham and Theresa M. Peckham to me known, and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed, George G. Cross Notary Public Received for record July 2nd 1956 at 5 o'clock P.M. and recorded by George G. Cross Town Clerk For transfer of the above mortgage see Book No. 117 page 92 ---- Discharge of Mortgage I, [?], having paid full amount and satisfaction of a certain mortgage made and the same 7th day of [?] of Charlestown, County of Washington to the [?] [?] [?] in the [?] of Low Exeter [?] [?] as my [?] [?] and said loan and and [?] the same On certain things mortgaged [?] the [?] [?] [?] [?] the 20th day of January A.D. 1956 by [?] [?] [?] [?] Signed in presence of [?] [?] [?] Mildred L. Cody [?] [?] [?] Received for record July 2nd 1956 11:00 [?] and recorded by [?] [?] 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.