The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11564

8/30/1802 · DEED · book 4 page 379 doc 11564

From HARRY JOHN life, SEKETOR JOHN life, PERRY DANIEL life, COMMACK JOSEPH life, NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, HARRY DANIEL life
To NEY JOHN life
Consideration Thirty two Dollars
Premises 31 acres and thirty one rods · Four or Certain tracts of land (Charlestown)

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 Act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island
“By virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island passed may January 1800”
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

▶ 1813 · DEED · HAZARD SARAH; NEY JOHN; NEY BENJAMIN; NEY WILLIAM; PERRY ELIZABETH; KI → · book 5 p 181
▶ 1829 · DEED · NEY JOHN; NEY SARAH → CHAMPLIN MARY · book 6 p 192
▶ 1830 · DEED · NEY JOHN; NEY SARAH → NEY JONATHAN R · book 6 p 216
▶ 1838 · DEED · NEY JOHN → NEY BENJAMIN · book 6 p 440
▶ 1838 · DEED · NEY JOHN → NEY GEORGE · book 6 p 444
▶ 1840 · DEED · NEY JOHN → NEY NATHAN · book 7 p 27
▶ 1853 · DEED · NEY JOHN → PERKINS WILLARD W · book 8 p 22

Bounded by

Benjamin Ny · Simon Ny · Stephen Nyos · Amos Thygans

The instrument's own words

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529 Know all Men by these presents that We John Schifter Joseph Commack Daniel Perry Dan Henry and John Henry the Pursuant Members of the Committee of the [illegible] to be in Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island said ave — By virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island passed may January 1800 appearing in said Town before Daniel Burnes his Excellency the Governor of the County and Rely Coffin Esqr Justice of the Peace in London & Charlestown to have that they just Declared and in consideration of the thing Herein after this cause believe us in all wise and entirely satisfied by John Nye of Charlestown in said County before us the thing through which is to be fully satisfied and content have given grant and release fully and Absolutely convey and Confirm unto the said John Nye his Heirs and assigns forever Four or Certain tracts of land all situated lying and being in the Town of Charlestown aforesaid containing by estimation 31 acres and thirty one rods be it the same more or less and is bounded as follows first Beginning at the Northeast corner of this Lot by the highway Line and bounded by the Common for that part hopping and then running south Some Bound to a stake of stone running Pointing North East corner corner for corner of Lot No 5 of three thousand hundred boundary on the south May land or Lot No 5 to 50 of the south of these stones Being the Northeast corner of this Lot then running Nye’s line North West to a stake of stone May line then runs straight to a stone with stake attached it Being the North West corner of this Lot then running East bounding Northly on Dan Perrys line until it reach the North East corner aforesaid bounded and it is bounded on the east side on Lot No 6 To have and to hold all and sundry the above granted and conveyed to use together with all the Privileges and Appurtenances for some particular matters whatsoever in him the said John Nye his Heirs and assigns forever as an absolute Estate Every part and piece simple forever and we the said John Schifter Joseph Commack Daniel Perry Dan Henry and John Henry for our own acts and our successors & Office persons with the above and under the Duration of the said Committee the County and Rely Coffin Esqr before the Covenant and signature Daniel Burnes witnessed him the said John Nye his Heirs and assigns against all lawful Claims and demands of any Person or Persons whatsoever in forever to be forever vacant and clear and by these Presents — Witness our hands and seals Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in our several Capacities this 5th Day of February and 6th Year of Independence 1802 Signed Sealed and Delivered In Presence of Robert Hayward Offy Augustus Henry Washington [illegible] & Bound to Charlestown the Day and Date written above in the margin the said Be offered to the written bargain and sale of Land as written within 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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.