The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11523

5/15/1801 · DEED · book 4 page 332 doc 11523

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, HARRY AUGUSTUS life, HARRY JOHN life, SEKETOR JOHN life, PERRY DANIEL life, NOCAKE GIDEON life
To HOXSEY JOSEPH JR
Consideration one Hundred and Eleven Dollars
Premises Twenty three acres one Quarter and thirty three rods · Tract bounded by Highway road, Isham's Land, and Stony Point (Charlestown, Narragansett Country)

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 ▸

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

▶ 1801 · AGREEMENT · PERRY JOHN; HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → HOXSEY JOSEPH JR; PERRY JOHN · book 4 p 314
▶ 1801 · AGREEMENT · HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → ENOSS PAUL · book 4 p 328
▶ 1802 · DEED · HOXSEY MARY; HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → CROSS PELEG JR · book 4 p 374
▶ 1805 · LEASE · HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → HOXSEY GIDEON · book 4 p 446
▶ 1813 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 5 p 169
▶ 1814 · DEED · HOXSEY JOSEPH JR → HOXSEY WILLIAM A · book 5 p 206

Bounded by

Gideon Hoxsey · Gideon Hoxsey

The instrument's own words

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3523 Augustus Harry Daniel Perry John Harry & Gideon Neake for our Selves and our Successors in said Office for ever with the Advice under the Direction of his Excellency the Governor and Pileg Crops Esqr as afored Do covenant & Engage the above mentioned Premises to the sd Gideon Howey his Heirs and Assigns against any Lawful Claims & Demands of any Person or Persons Whatever forever to warrant securement action by these Presents In Witness whereof we have hereunto in our Capacity set our Hands & Seals this 30 Day of March in the 25 year of the Independence of America At [illegible] Signed Sealed & Delivered John Schelor (seal) In Presence of Augustus Harry (seal) Edward Wellcox Daniel Perry (seal) Benjamin Ney John Harry (seal) Gideon Neake (seal) On the Day and Date first written within writing the Subscribers Do Approve of the within Bargain and Sale in witness thereof hereunto Pileg Crops (seal) Enoch Glandall Committee by hiss Commission At Charlestown in Washington County the Day and Date first written personally appeared the Subscribers to the above and foregoing Instrument & ackn ow led that the same to be their Act & Deed Hands & Seals thereunto affixed before me Signed May 15th, 1809 Pileg Crops justice peace Pileg Crops Justice Peace Comty Know all Men by these Presents that we John Schelor Augustus Harry Daniel Perry John Harry and Gideon Neake the present Members of the Council of the Rhode Island State in Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of this State of Rhode Island any [illegible] 1809 Composeing our Council under the Direction of his Excellency the Governor and Pileg Crops Esqr to sell vacant Lands and Charters to pay their debts Due to and in trust by extension of theirs on [illegible] and then Defaults us in the most due and timely by Josepha Howey from Narragansett Country and after append the Receipts whereof unto my full Satisfaction & Content have given granted bargained sold and by these presents Do give grant bargain Sell Alien fully fully and absolutely convey and confirm unto him the sd Joseph Howey for his Heirs and Assigns for Certain
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333 Certain Tract or Parcel of Land situate lying and being in the Town of Charlestown containing by Estimation Twenty three acres one Quarter and thirty three rods be the same more or less and butted & bounded as follow(ing) beginning at the north west Corner of this Tract & thence north west Corner of a Lot of Land this Day sold to Gideon Hawley says by the Nly Line from thence east twenty one Chains fifty links to a Heap of stones & theng the north east Corner of said Lot for noll Lot from thence nine Degrees north west as the Tide Line runs to the Point called the Konnas Mark and then the once westerly the north east Part of Stony Point to the north west Corner of said Point to the eastward marks with stone thence north twenty five Degrees north west ten Chains & fifty Links to a Heap of stones or a mill h[ill] a belle north of a large high Rock or a Hill thence south twenty one Degrees north west six Chains & forty links to a corner tree standing East of the Road marked & stone about forty thence by a Straight Line to the first mentioned Bound bounding northerly by the Highway road eastly by bounding Line or Partly by said Highway road south Southerly part bounded northerly and partly southerly again by Isham's Land & mostly again by the beginning a the North Line or to the first mentioned Bound aforesaid the same way be bounds or bounded to be bounded It have and hold the sole and absolute bargains Premises together with all the Perquisites and Appurtenances from their Joseph Crosby for his heirs all men known memories witnesseth unto forever in Fee simple forever and Appurtenances as absolute Estate of Inheritance in fee simple forever and on the whole John Schektor Augustus Harry Daniel Perry John Harry Nixon theirs forever also our Successors in Office forever with the Acress and other the Delections for Excellency the Governor & Deputy Govr of Rhode Island engage the above Domcil Tenements for the said Joseph Crosby for his heirs Assigns against the Complt Claims & Demands of any Person or Persons whatever forever have here after Warrant secure & defend by theirs and theirs to a Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands & Seals in our said Capacity this 30 Day of March in the 26 Year of the Independence of America AD 1000 Signed Sealed and Delivered In the Presence off James Compton Browning Green John Schektor Augustus Harry Daniel Perry John Harry The Day and Date first written we the subscribers Do approve of the within mentioned Bargain and Sale as Witness our Hands At Charlestown in Washington County the Day and Date first written Personally appeared the Subscribers to the writing and foregoing Instrument and acknowledge the same to be their free Voluntary Acts and Deeds with their Hands and Seals thereto affixed as before this 12 day May 1807 by Poly Capr’s J.P. & L.P. Pelig Crop Justice Peace Peter Crop J. Commi Enoch Conrad in behalf of Gentlemen ee

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