The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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1/3/1921 · DEED · book 19 page 373 doc 7345

From RUECKERT ERNEST F
To BRIGGS ASA S life
Premises eighty (80) acres more or less · tract of land with buildings (Charlestown, Kingston)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

▶ 1927 · DEED · BRIGGS ASA S → BRIGGS HOPE A · book 22 p 461
▶ 1946 · DEED · BRIGGS ASA S → BRIGGS ASA S; BRIGGS MARY L · book 30 p 70

The instrument's own words

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Know all men by these presents, that I, Ernest R. Rueckert of the city of Providence, in the state of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of ten dollars to be paid to me by Asa A. Briggs of Hopkinton, in said state, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim unto the said Asa A. Briggs his heirs and assigns forever, all the right title, estate, interest property claim and demand which I have or of right ought to have or to claim, in or to that certain tract of land situated in Charlestown, in the state of Rhode Island with the buildings thereon, containing by estimation eighty (80) acres more or less and bounded as follows: on the North by the Old Post Road, as scaled on the East by land of Sarah M. Hopkins and dite on the North by Charlestown Post road and on the West by the line as described by the Record of Common Deeds by its deed in the District of the West Court of land, which record is on sheet in the clerks office of said Court at Kingston, R.I. the land on the West of said line is now owned by Henry M. Gatz, or someone otherwise bounded. to have and to hold the same, with all the rights privileges appurtenances appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of land of the said Asa A. Briggs his heirs and assigns forever, And I the of aforementioned Ernest R. Rueckert for myself and for my heirs, executors his administrators, do covenant with the said Asa A. Briggs his heirs and assigns, that will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said Asa A. Briggs his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming any thing through me or under me. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty one (1921) Signed and sealed in presence of A. E. Murrins Ernest R. Rueckert L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Providence In Providence on the 5th day of January A.D. 1921 Before me personally appeared Ernest R. Rueckert to me known, and known to be only to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed. Jerry Bittlefield Notary Public Received for record Jan, 5, 1921 at 1.55 o'clock P.M. and allowed by George Latonas 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.