The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 11835

4/10/1812 · DEED · book 5 page 89 doc 11835

From NOCAKE GIDEON life, CUMMUCK JOSEPH life, SEKETOR BENJAMIN life, PAUL LODOWICK life, NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, HARRY AUGUSTUS life
To KINYON JOSEPH
Consideration thirty Six Dollars and Ninety one Cents
Premises Five Acres and Seventy five Square rods · Lot of land delineated by heap of stones and stakes (Charlestown, loggesseth)
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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 said State
“By Virtue of an Act of the General Assembly... to settle some of the Common Lands of sd Tribe”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1805 · DEED · HARRY CHRISTOPHER; HARRY CLOWE → HARRY AUGUSTUS · book 4 p 447

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

▶ 1816 · MORTGAGE · KINYON RUTH; KINYON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 262
▶ 1819 · CERTIFICATE · KINYON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 416
▶ 1847 · DEED · KINYON MARY; KINYON JOSEPH → KENYON JAMES A; KINYON JAMES A · book 7 p 252
▶ 1847 · DEED · KINYON MARY; KINYON JOSEPH → KINYON JAMES A · book 7 p 253

The instrument's own words

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09 Know all Men By these presents that Augustus Harry Gideon Cocake joseph Commuck Benjamin skeleton & Lodowick Paul the Present Members of the Council of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians in Charlestown town of Washington State of Rhode Island & Prov by Virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of said State passed on October 2nd 1811, Incorporating as Trustees Under the Superintendence and Direction of Daniel Babcock Edward Williams & Poly Cofty Esqrs for Equity to settle some of the Common Lands of sd Tribe whatever may belong to the Dept of sd Tribe Defer and on Consideration of the sum of fifty Dollars & Ninety cents to be paid in hand written note by me Joseph Ransom of blockstown in sd County and State agreed Compensate the Trustees above named on the Acknowledgement and to our full satisfaction and Content Have given granted imposed & delivered that that him the sd Joseph Ransom his Heirs & Assigns forever One Certain Lot of Land situated in the lands of Charlestown containing Five Acres and Seventy five Square rods as Appear by Draught on plot of sd Land made by joseph & Poly Esqrs Surveyors dated March 1812 the sd bound is delineated following the Northeast Corner as a heap of stones by the Highway Leading to loggesseth from there running N 67 W 26 R. Ls 70 to a Stake with stones about it from there S W 67 Rod to a Stake with stones about it by the aforesaid Highway from there N 47 E 8-14 Rods to a heap of stones from there N 22 E 4-13 Rods to the first mentioned heap To Have and to hold the above Described and bounded premises together with all and Singular the Privileges and Appurtenances thereunto belonging in an absolute Appurtenance free from all encumbrances whatsoever title him the sd Joseph Ransom his Heirs & Assigns forever. And we the sd Trustees Harry Gideon Cocake joseph Commuck Benjamin skeleton & Lodowick Paul for ourselves and our successors forever Under the Superintendence and Direction of Daniel Babcock Edward Williams & Poly Cofty Esqrs as aforesaid Do Covenant and engage at the above Described and bounded premises unto him the sd Joseph Ransom his Heirs & Assigns against the Lawful Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons Whatever furthermore hereunto Warrant Seize and Defend by these Presents. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals in our Capacities this 28 Day of March 1812, Signed Sealed and Delivered In Presence of Joseph Rodney gr Stephen P Gorton Washington P State of Rhode Island at Charlestown Lodowick Paul Seal The written Instruments formally appended on Charlestown the above Named Signers and Sealers witnessed by the Committee’s and acknowledging this above and foregoing Instrument to be their free Voluntary act and Deed here’s & Seal dated the 4th Day 1812 Edward Williams Poly Cofty Esqr Augustus Harry Seal Gideon Cocake Seal Joseph Commuck Seal Before me Asa Church Justice Peace Executed Apr 10 1812 per Poly Cofty Esqr pc C

The page as recorded

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