The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 10697

11/15/1854 · DEED · book 8 page 72 doc 10697

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, CONGDON MATILDA life
To HOPKINS LUKE life
Premises several hundred Acres · land of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians (Sonagawset)
Also on this page: DEED TAYLOR JOSEPH W

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 ▸

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1854 · CERTIFICATE · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE · book 8 p 68
◀ 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 grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1858 · MORTGAGE · HOPKINS MARY H; HOPKINS LUKE → MICHAEL BRISTER · book 8 p 247
▶ 1859 · MORTGAGE · HOPKINS MARY H; HOPKINS LUKE → MICHAEL BRISTER · book 8 p 299
▶ 1876 · MORTGAGE · HOPKINS MARY H; HOPKINS LUKE → WILCOX CHARLES W · book 10 p 245
▶ 1877 · MORTGAGE · HOPKINS LUKE → CASE BENJAMIN W · book 10 p 359

The instrument's own words

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72 Know all men by these presents That I Alvah Taylor citizen of Westerly County of Washington State of Rhode Island forward for and in consideration of the sums of fifty Dollars to me paid by Joseph Taylor of Dexterville in the County of Month State of Rhode Island the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge ington State of Rhode Island the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, hereby remise release and forever quit claim unto the said Joseph Taylor hereby remise release and forever quit claim unto the said Joseph Taylor his Heirs his Devisees and Assigns forever all that part of a piece of land marked lot lying South of a dividing line made by me for the Purpose of dividing division commencing at a marked Stone in the westernmost of the said dividing division commencing at a marked Stone in the westernmost of the said dividing line the North on said dividing line and running West there running said line East on the North on said dividing line and running West there running said 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73 the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging To Have and to Hold the same to The said Luke and his heirs his Privies and Assigns forever In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals this 26 day of April AD 1854 In presence of Henry C. Card Charles Booss Matilda $\text{her}$ $\times$ Congdon L S $\text{mark}$ Joseph Gavitt agent L S Washington Co Charleston April 26 th A D 1854, Personally came Matilda Congdon and Joseph Gavitt Signers and Sealers of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free and voluntary act and Deed Before me Charles Booss Town Clerk Received Nov 15 th 1854 by Chas Booss Town Clerk By act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Sc, AD 1854 of date empowering Moses Stanton Jr of Bristol Town Session, AD 1854 of date empowering Moses Stanton Jr of Bristol Stanton's Sarah Aubrey, Betty Abrain and Mary Ann Molly Members of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians to sell and give several hundred Acres of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians to sell and give several hundred Acres of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians to sell and give several hundred Acres of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians to sell and give several hundred Acres of the Sonagawset tribe of Indians to 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