The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11124

12/4/1863 · LEASE · book 8 page 453 doc 11124

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, MOODY MARY ANN life, HARRY CHARLES life
To MOODY MARY ANN life
Consideration two dollars per year or the sum of one hundred dollars
Premises twenty five acres more or less; fifty acres more or less · Two parcels, one North of Watchung, one bounded by George Law (Charlestown, Watchung)

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 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.

Bounded by

Welcome Bedouins · Daniel loud · George · silly Thorns · Charles Elisha

The instrument's own words

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453 State of Rhode Island County of Washington ss Clerk's Office, Court of Common Pleas. I Elisha C. Clarke Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the preceding pages contain a true copy of the Record of said Court in Case the Petition No. 3 Mary Clarke vs Potter Clarke et al as in said Office doth appear In attestation whereof I have set my hand & affix the seal of said court this 30th day of November AD 1863 L.S. Elisha C. Clarke Clerk Revenue Stamp 5 cts Received for record Dec 1st 1863 at 4 o'clock P.M. and recorded by Charles Dossos Town Clerk This Indenture made the 14th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two be it known to all forevers Charles Harry and Mary Ann Moody the daughters of Moses Starbuck still resident of the Narragansett tribe of Indians in the town of Charlestown acknowledges that the said Charles doth hereby lease demise and let unto the said Mary ann two certain parcels or tracts of Land situated in said town one of which is situated North of Watchung (born) one of which is bounded Northerly by land of Welcome Buckles his heirs and is bounded Southerly by said parcel Northerly by land of Welcome Buckles his heirs and is bounded Southerly by said parcel Northerly by land of Daniel Law land nice Eastly by said land and until containing twenty five acres more or less The other said lot is bounded Northerly by land of George Law land Northerly by land of silly Thras his heirs bounded Eastly by land of Charles Elisha Clarke his heirs bounded Southerly by the Harry corners or however situate of said lots may be therein bounded said last mentioned lot containing fifty acres more or less To hold for the term of ten years from the date hereof The said Mary ann yielding and paying therefore the sum of two dollars per year or a sign of the said yearly rental Either for their said term of ten years which said Thousand Dollar said Charles acknowledges having received in full at the time of the execution of this lease and said Mary Ann further agrees to procure or cause to be procured from said land the transfer of one house and one half stories high of the size of 18 x 20 on the ground all timber to be hauled and delivered at the Steal House by said Mary Ann or her agents without expense to said Charles. In witness whereof the said parties have set their hands and seals on the day and year aforesaid. Executed in presence of Yos. H. Harry Simeon Banks Charles E. Harry L.S. Mary A. Moody's mark x L.S. Daniel Moody Received for record December 4th 1863 at 11 o'clock A.M. and recorded by Charles Dossos 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.