The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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3/10/1923 · DEED · book 20 page 424 doc 7624

From HELSTEN JENNIE E life
To DAVIS SAMUEL H life
Premises lot on Easterly side of North Main street road opposite Kenyon House (Charlestown, North Main street road, Kenyon House)

Back — where this land came from

deed Isaac T. Moore book 178 p 441 Exeter
“conveyed by deed from Isaac T. Moore to William H. Helton dated April 7, 1913”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (other_town)
read by: gemma
will William M. Helton
“conveyed to that person by the will of said William M. Helton”
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

◀ 1923 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → HELSTEN JENNIE E · book 20 p 427
◀ 1895 · DEED · KENYON SUSAN T; KENYON WM H → HELSTEN JENNIE E · book 13 p 104

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

▶ 1923 · SURVEY · DAVIS SAMUEL H; KENYON SUSAN T → · book 20 p 426
▶ 1923 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → HELSTEN JENNIE E · book 20 p 427
▶ 1923 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → KENYON SUSAN T · book 20 p 428
▶ 1923 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → BUDDINGTON JOHN W · book 20 p 443
▶ 1923 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → HAKES HARLAN P; HAKES ANNA E · book 20 p 446
▶ 1925 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → THORP HOWARD E · book 21 p 402
▶ 1926 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → HAKES HARLAN P; HAKES ANNA E · book 22 p 174
▶ 1926 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → NELSON A G · book 22 p 199
▶ 1927 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → PICHUP MABEL S · book 23 p 64
▶ 1927 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → NELSON AUBREY G · book 23 p 109
▶ 1927 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → NELSON AUBREY C · book 22 p 475
▶ 1928 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 23 p 198
▶ 1928 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → BUDDINGTON JOHN W · book 23 p 201
▶ 1928 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → BLACKWOOD ADA L · book 23 p 290
▶ 1929 · MORTGAGE · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → HAKES HARLAN P · book 23 p 385
▶ 1929 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → SH DAVIS INC · book 23 p 439

The instrument's own words

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424 heirs and his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. And for the consideration aforesaid I, William H. Kenyon, husband of said Susan T. Kenyon, do hereby release all my right of curtesy in and to the said granted premises unto the said Heurte and his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18 day of March in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty three. Executed in the presence of Charles E. Bonnie Jr. Susan T. Kenyon L.S. William Henry Kenyon L.S. State of Conn. County of New London On Storrington on the 18th day of March A.D. 1923 before me personally appeared Susan T. Kenyon of the Town of Charlestown, county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and William Henry Kenyon, her husband to me known and sworn by one to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument to be their sealed, executed to be free act and deed. Albert G. Martin L.S. Arthur P. Robbs Received for record March, 18th 1923 at 9-50 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George G. Lawrence Town Clerk Know all men by these presents that I, Frank & Dennis E. Nelson, of the town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, having hereafter called the Grantor in consideration of $1. and other valuable considerations to me paid by Samuel D. Davis of the town of Westerly, said County and State hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged in fully give, grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Grantee and his heirs and devises all that certain lot of parcel of land lying and being in the said town of Charlestown and lying on the Easterly side of North Main street road, so called, opposite to Kenyon House, so called, the same being bounded and described as follows: beginning at a point on the Easterly side of said highway at the southeasterly corner of land now owned and the southeasterly corner of land formerly of John B. Dexter and running in a Southerly direction with the Easterly line of said highway three hundred (300) feet to a corner, thence in an Easterly direction at right angles to the Easterly line of said street two hundred (200) feet to a corner; thence in a Southerly
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425 to run east at right angles to the last mentioned bound three hundred (300) feet to a nail set in a rock found there in a boundary line which runs west said Rock’s border land found there two hundred ten (210) feet to the point and place of beginning, a convex curve of the same way be bounded and described meaning hereby to convey that certain lot of land called conveyed by deed from Isaac T. Moore to William H. Helton dated April 7, 1913 and recorded in the book of records of Town of Exeter, Book 178, Page 441, said land having been conveyed to that person by the will of said William M. Helton. I give and grant to today the aforesaid premises with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging end to the use of the said grantee and his heirs hand and assigns forever. And I the said grantor do hereby for myself and for any ones heirs executors and administrators covenant with the said grantee and his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises that the same are free from all incumbrances that I have good and right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid that the said grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by their premises at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have shave and enjoy the said premises and that I the said grantor with and my heirs selectors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said grantee and his heirs and assigns against any and all lawful claims and demands of all persons Of which witness I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day of March in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty three Revenue and legally thus Signed Executed in presence of 30¢ Elizabeth E. Bonnie J f o Jennie E. Helton LS State of Rhode Island County of Kent ss. On the 5th day of March AD 1923 before me personally appeared Jennie E. Helton to one known unto known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and she acknowledged said instrument be her freely and executed to be her free act and deed Robert G. Butler Notary Public Received for record March 10th 1923 at 9-15 oclock A.M. and recorded by George B. Cross 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.