The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 9324

2/19/1934 · DEED · book 25 page 431 doc 9324

From MERRITT WARREN L life, MERRITT STELLA E C
To BLIVEN FRANK E life
Premises six (6) acres, more or less · undivided one half of a certain lot or parcel (Charlestown, Burlingame Reservation)

Back — where this land came from

deed Cornelius Bradley book 12 p 27 Charlestown
“conveyed to the above-named Grantor by deed from Cornelius Bradley”
◀ Follow back 1888 · DEED · BRADLEY CORNELIUS; BRADLEY MARY A → MERRITT WARREN · book 12 p 27
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1903 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L → MERRITT STELLA E C · book 14 p 404
◀ 1898 · DEED · SAUNDERS LYDIA F → MERRITT WARREN L · book 13 p 475
◀ 1904 · AGREEMENT · BLIVEN FRANK E; MERRITT WARREN L → MERRITT WARREN L; BLIVEN FRANK E · book 15 p 2
◀ 1893 · DEED · MACOMBER BILLINGS D → MERRITT WARREN L · book 12 p 429

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

▶ 1936 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E; BLIVEN MINNIE C → RHODE ISLAND STATE OF · book 26 p 430
▶ 1936 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E; BLIVEN MINNIE C → BLIVEN HOWARD F · book 26 p 457
▶ 1941 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → BURDICK MARION G; BURDICK EDWARD E · book 28 p 393
▶ 1942 · LEASE · BLIVEN FRANK E; BLIVEN GEORGE W → BLIVEN GEORGE W; BLIVEN FRANK E · book 28 p 621
▶ 1944 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → BLIVEN HOWARD F · book 29 p 231
▶ 1944 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E; BLIVEN GRACE A; BLIVEN HOWARD F → BLIVEN CHARLES L · book 29 p 248
▶ 1944 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → BLIVEN CHARLES L · book 29 p 250
▶ 1944 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → BLIVEN GEORGE W · book 29 p 342
▶ 1944 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → HILL CHARLES H; HILL HAZEL K · book 29 p 344
▶ 1945 · DEED · BLIVEN FRANK E → ROBERTS CYRIL G; ROBERTS HELEN E · book 29 p 360
▶ 1947 · RELEASE STANDARD · BLIVEN FRANK E; BLIVEN GEORGE W → BLIVEN GEORGE W; BLIVEN FRANK E · book 28 p 621

The instrument's own words

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431 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, WARREN L. MERRITT, of the City of Worcester, State of Massachusetts for consideration paid, grant to FRANK E. ELIVEN, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS. That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: The undivided one half of a certain lot or parcel of land situated in said Town of Charlestown, containing six (6) acres, more or less, and bounded and described as follows: Northerly and Easterly by premises of the State of Rhode Island, commonly known as the Burlingame Reservation; Southerly and Westerly by the premises of Frank E. Eliven, or however otherwise the same may be bounded and described. Meaning and intending to convey by these presents, that tract or parcel of land conveyed to the above-named Grantor by deed from Cornelius Bradley; said deed being dated June 14th, 1888 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, in said Charlestown, August 31, 1888, in Book No. 12, Pages 27 and 28. Reference to said deed and the records thereof being hereby had and made and the same made a part of these presents. I, STELLA E. C. MERRITT wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this twenty-fifth day of January, 1934. WARREN L. MERRITT (SEAL) STELLA E. C. MERRITT (SEAL) STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS } } COUNTY OF WORCESTER, s. s.) In Worcester, Mass. on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1934 before me personally appeared Warren L. Merritt and Stella E. C. Merritt 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. O. LEON ROY Notary Public. Received for record February 19th, A. D. 1934 at 4:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] 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.