The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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4/30/1925 · NOTICE · book 21 page 455 doc 7886

From WESTERLY LIGHT & POWER CO, NARRAGANSETT PIER ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO, WICKFORD LIGHT & WATER CO
To SOUTH COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE CO
Premises one and one half acres more or less · tract of land (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED BROWN MARY J; BROWN WALTER E

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 ▸

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 index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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1825* before me personally appeared Bounce Hortense Kenyon to me known, and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and she acknowledged said instrument by her hand to be her free act and deed. Michael E. Barber Notary Public Received for record April 11th 1925 at 3.45 o'clock PM. and recorded by George G. Cox, Town Clerk April 27, 1925- Notice of Consolidation of Electric Light & Power Company, Narragansett Power Electric Light & Power Company, Wickford Light & Water Company with one company to be known as South County Public Service Co. Notice is hereby given of the passage of an Act by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island passed April 21, 1925 under the terms of which the South County Public Service Company has been created by the consolidation of Electric Light & Power Company, Narragansett Power Electric Light & Power Company and Wickford Light & Water Company, said South County Public Service Company is any such way made the successor of each of the said companies consolidated companies, and as such successor has been vested with all the properties of said consolidated companies, and is to assume all contracts, mortgages or other liens or encumbrances upon the properties of any of the consolidated companies, and has assumed and is subject to all the rights, duties and liabilities of said consolidated companies. South County Public Service Company. E. S. Karvounis, Vice President J. Lowell Secretary Received for record April 28th 1925 at 4 o'clock PM. and recorded by George G. Cox Town Clerk Know All MEN by these presents, That I, Frank E. Sweet of Charlestown, county of Washington and State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of his balance to me paid by Ruth A. Storm and Mary Storm of Charlestown in said county and state as joint tenants and not as tenants in common hereafter called the Grantees, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantees and their heirs, land and assigns forever, a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown containing one and one half acres more or less and

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.