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=== Town Records === | === Town Records === | ||
After proprietors sold their land or a town was incorporated, the town recorded deeds and mortgages. The Family History Library has copies of the [[Rhode Island Town Records|town records]] to about 1880. From the | After proprietors sold their land or a town was incorporated, the town recorded deeds and mortgages. The Family History Library has copies of the [[Rhode Island Town Records|town records]] to about 1880. From the [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/50442?availability=Family%20History%20LibraryProvidence Recorder of Deeds], for example, the library has 218 microfilms of deeds and mortgages for the years 1677 to 1901. Documents from the town of Providence and other early settlements have been published in many volumes. | ||
The [[Introduction to the FamilySearch Catalog|FamilySearch Catalog]] has more than 250 matching titles for a keyword search of "Rhode Island land records".'''[https://familysearch.org/catalog-search Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Online]''' | The [[Introduction to the FamilySearch Catalog|FamilySearch Catalog]] has more than 250 matching titles for a keyword search of "Rhode Island land records".'''[https://familysearch.org/catalog-search Go to the FamilySearch Catalog Online]''' | ||
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Rhode Island, [COUNTY]- LAND AND PROPERTY | Rhode Island, [COUNTY]- LAND AND PROPERTY | ||
Rhode Island, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- LAND AND PROPERTY <br> | Rhode Island, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- LAND AND PROPERTY <br> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||