The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11528

8/15/1801 · DEED · book 4 page 339 doc 11528

From HARRY JOHN life, NOCAKE GIDEON life, PERRY DANIL life, SEAKETOR JOHN life, NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, HARRY AUGUSTUS life
To NEY BENJAMIN life
Consideration Twenty five Dollars
Premises Twelve Acres One decimetre and thirty rods · Land lying between the Prime property and Activity Boundary (Charlestown, Port Mountain 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 State of Rhode Island
“by Virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island May 15th 1792”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1805 · DEED · NEY BENJAMIN; NEY ABIGAIL → NEY SAMUEL · book 4 p 436
▶ 1812 · DEED · CHURCH ASA; PERRY JOHN; PERRY SIMEON; PERRY SAMUEL; PERRY THOMAS; BROW → · book 5 p 88
▶ 1813 · DEED · HAZARD SARAH; NEY JOHN; NEY BENJAMIN; NEY WILLIAM; PERRY ELIZABETH; KI → · book 5 p 181
▶ 1801 · LEASE · NEY BENJAMIN → NEY STEPHEN · book 4 p 324
▶ 1841 · DEED · NEY BENJAMIN → SMITH JOHN E · book 7 p 43

The instrument's own words

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(339) Know all Men by these Presents that we John Sabiston, Augustus Harry, Daniel Perry, John Henry, and Gideon Nolake, the Present Members of the Council for the Indians State in Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island say That by Virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island May 15th 1792 8000 sp[ecies] possessing land’s came under the Direction of the Governory the Governory and they agreed to Sell Deed Land in and at Charlestown to pay the Just Debts of G[overnment] in Consideration of the Sum of forty Pounds from John Sabiston to be paid by Benjamin Nye of the town of Charlestown in said State Whereas it is agreed that we are to be Just Satisfactions and Contract have granted boundaries and agreed to Sell the Piece of Ground lying between the Prime property and Activity Boundary and form said land the Benjamin Nye his heirs and Assigns forever One Quarter One Tenth part of said Land that lying being in the town of Charlestown aforesaid of containing by Estimation Twelve Acres One decimetre and thirty rods more or less and is bounded as follows follows to wit: Beginning at the Southwest Corner of this lot satisfactory of said Nye’s Nye’s Property from the boundary line North West Direction East line chain to the first near four poles Three East lines and one chain and two links due East to a heap of stone fence South Nine chains to a heap of stone fence and then West the Port Mountain road Proceeding boundary by the Properties created that boundary be Straight Line boundary by the Prime Evidence as established and by Deed by the Land’s noted to the Joint mountain boundary TO CONVEY and to assign the above mentioned Premises together with all the Privileges and Appurtenances from all Encumbrances whatsoever unto the Benjamin Nye his heirs and Assigns as an absolute Estate of Inheritance in Common for the forever and we the said John Sabiston Augustus Harry Daniel Perry John Henry and Gideon Nolake our Port’s names and our signatures in said Joint Property with the Above Land under the Direction of the Governory the Governory as a P[ublic] Cost for Costs as agreed to Do Convey and assign to above mentioned Benjamin the Benjamin Nye his heirs and Assigns against the Lawfull Claims and Demand of any Person or Persons Whatsoever forever hereafter to Warrant forever and Defend by this our Presents In Witness whereof we have here ended in our said Capacity set our hands and seals this 20th Day of May between in the 25th Year of the Independence of America 1801 Gideon Nolake’s Edward By protocols of James Gordon N. [illegible] Nathaniel [illegible] (Court at Charlestown the Board Date Post with the written Personally Approved John Sabiston Augustus Harry Daniel Perry and Gideon Nolake Members of the Council and and proposing Indemnity of Deed and Acknowledg and that the Same be made for Voluntary and Taxes paid and’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

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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.