The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 10821

4/13/1857 · DEED · book 8 page 180 doc 10821

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, ROSS TOBIAS S life, ROSS MARY life
To ROSS OLIVER life
Premises about twenty acres more or less · cabin and tent with land (Charlestown, Smith's, Mary Allen, Cabinners road)

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 General Assembly of the St.
“General Assembly of the St. 1857 P Redfield Act of Chair January Session AD 1857 entitling Tobias S Ross and Mary Rose”
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

◀ 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 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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180 same paid as of aforesaid to my said Husband therefore do hereby release and forever quit claim to my said Albert H Kenyon his Heirs and assigns all my right of Ownership in the above described premises In Testimony whereof we have here set to our hands and seals this twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five [1867] Signed sealed and delivered In the presence of Samuel Stove Charles Anthony L S Hannah A Anthony L S St. of Rhode Island Sc March 31st 1867 County of Washington Personally appeared the within named Charles Anthony Signer and Sealer of the deed within instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed Love and Seal Before me Signed for Record April 4th 1867 at 6 o Clock P M Recorded April 11th 1867 by Charles Goss C R T G P Clark P Solacy Whereas C General Assembly of the St. 1857 P Redfield Act of Chair January Session AD 1857 entitling Tobias S Ross and Mary Rose Members of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians in Charlestown to bequeath and devise all and diverse a deed of her trustee Granvon Oliver Read under the Need of Poverty any case came to know their Grandson Oliver Read under the advice and devise of William Foster Sherfon for know all men by these presents that we Tobias S Ross and Mary Ross as aforesaid by and with the advice and direction of William Foster as aforesaid in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars released to our full paid satisfaction of Oliver Read the within receipt of which hereby acknowledge do hereby grant sell and convey all our right title and interest in our said cabin and tent together with all the land containing about twenty acres more or less bounded as follows beginning at the N E corner of the aforesaid Road running Eastward land called Smith's till it comes to reaches the A R corner those lands running South until it comes to the boundary reaches Mary Allen those lands running South until it comes to the boundary those lands running Westerly until it comes to the boundary those lands running Westerly to come to Cabinners road then runs North until it comes to the boundary those lands running by the Road until it comes to the said mountain boundary those to here and the right to build the same to turn the said Oliver Ross his Heirs and Assigns forever In Witness whereof we the said Tobias S Ross and Mary Ross have hereunto set our hands and Seals at Charlestown our residence on this 30th day of March AD 1867 In presence of Geo Foster Octavia Foster Signed Tobias S Ross L S Mary Ross L S I hereby certify that this deed governed the conveyance has been made under my advice and direction William Foster State of Rhode Island County of Washington Signed appeared before me The above named Tobias S Ross and Mary Ross signers and sealers of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed March 30th AD 1867 Dried William Foster Senator Read for Record April 6th 1867 at 4 o Clock P M Recorded April 13th 1867 by C Goss C R

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 180).

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.