The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 9108

9/20/1932 · DEED · book 25 page 197 doc 9108

From DAVIS JULIA E life
To DAVIS NETTIE A A
Premises sixty seven (67) acres more or less · Tract known as the Wantonly Land (Wantonly Land, Woods River Junction, Indian Reservation)

Back — where this land came from

unknown
“described on "A Map of the Indian Reservation, Charlestown, Rhode Island," said map being recorded in the Town Clerk's Office”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1964 · DEED · DAVIS NETTIE A A → MARS HAROLD S; MARS LAURA L · book 39 p 485
▶ 1970 · DEED · DEBLOIS MARY O; DAVIS NETTIE A A DEC → HAZARD RAYMOND A · book 43 p 619

The instrument's own words

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197 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, JULIA S. DAVIS, widow, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to NETTIE A. A. DAVIS of said Town, County and State with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: A certain tract or parcel of land, commonly known as the Wantonly Land," situated in said Town, County and State, containing sixty seven (67) acres more or less, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, bounded and described as follows: Northerly and Easterly by the highway leading from the State Highway to Woods River Junction and by the line of the land now or formerly of the Heirs of Zenas Bournes, deceased, and of John A. Perkins, deceased; Westerly by the Uniform Railroad, or however otherwise the same may be bounded and described. Meaning and intending to convey and bargain by this deed, all the real estate I now own, situate in said Town, County and State/Charlestown, which real estate is more par- ticularly described on "A Map of the Indian Reservation, Charlestown, Rhode Island," said map being recorded in the Town Clerk's Office, said Town excepting, however, those two tracts of land conveyed by deed to Mary D. Salisbury, dated and signed November 2, 1916, and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, said Map being a reference to the aforesaid map and deed is hereby had and made a part of this instrument for a more parti- cular description of the premises hereby conveyed. Reserving, however, for the use of myself and my successors, a life interest with power to control the same. It being my intention that, at my decease, said conveyed property shall pass to the said NETTIE A. A. DAVIS. WITNESS my hand this 20th day of September 1932. JULIA S. DAVIS (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, $0.50) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 20th day of September, 1932 before me personally appeared JULIA S. DAVIS, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instru- ment, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public Received for record September 20th, A. D. 1932 at 3:30 o'clock, P. M., 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.