The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 10692

9/13/1854 · CERTIFICATE · book 8 page 68 doc 10692

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life
To NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life
Premises grants divided into fair and equal lots (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED KINYON JOHN C

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 ▸
indian Narragansett Indian tribe
“divide their grants in fair and equal Lots among all the families”
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

◀ 1846 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 203
◀ 1845 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 189

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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68 In presence of Charles Cross Martha B. Cross Washington St & Charlestown Aug 18 Th 1854 Personally came Welcome Burdick and Patience his wife and acknowledge d the within instrument to be their free act and Deed Before me Charles Cross Town Clerk Recorded Aug 18 th 1854 by Chas Cross Town Clk Welcome Burdick LS Patience her mark Burdick LS Know all men by these presents that I Rebecca R Kinyon of South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island forward in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars paid me by John R Kinyon of said South Kingstown the receipt whereof I ac- knowledge by these presents remise release and forever quit claim all my right unto the said John R Kinyon his Heirs and assigns forever all the right title and interest which I acquired in and to a certain tract of Land called known as the Croydon farm lying partly in Charlestown and partly in South Kingstown in said County of Washington by Deed from the said John R Kinyon to me late Samuel Jay 29 th day of May 1852 and recorded in Book 10 of Land Records Office in said Charlestown Page 456 reference thereto herein have for a more particular description thereof I do here and by these presents do remise the same with all the privileges and offen- ances thereof to the said John R Kinyon his Heirs above Designee forever In Witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal this 25 day of August A D 1854 Rebecca R Kinyon LS Washington St & Charlestown August 25 th 1854 Personally appeared Rebecca R Kinyon Signer and Sealer of the within instrument and acknowledged the same to be her free voluntary act and Deed Before me Charles Cross Town Clk Recorded Aug 26 th 1854 by Chas Cross T.Clk Charlestown September 3 d 1854 This is to certify that it was voted in a public Meeting of the mem- bers of the Narragansett Indian tribe that they divide their grants in fair and equal Lots among all the families said Grade Voted that the President Samuel Shake have this Recorded Samuel Rodman Secretary of the Meeting Recorded Sept 13 th 1854 by Chas Cross T.Clk

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 68).

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.