The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12184

12/4/1820 · DEED · book 5 page 448 doc 12184

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life
To BURDICK GIDEON life
Consideration thirty Dollars
Premises about one turn · Narragansett Lot with oven and pond (Charlestown, Narragansett side of Sundown)

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 ▸
grant General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
“Appointed by the General Assembly... to sell so much of the Lands of the State”
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

▶ 1827 · DEED · BURDICK GIDEON → BURDICK JOSEPH; BURDICK BENJAMIN · book 6 p 151
▶ 1827 · MORTGAGE · BURDICK GIDEON → STANTON JOSEPH · book 6 p 150

The instrument's own words

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1448 Whereas we the Undersigned Edward Wilcox of Charlestown in the County of Kent and Nathan V. Dixon of Westerly in the County aforesaid have been Appointed by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Committee to Settle and Adjust the Claim of Joseph Stanton for Joseph Stanton late Yeoman of the Narragansett side of Sundown in the Town of Charlestown against said State and to sell so much of the Lands of the State aforesaid in said Charlestown as should be sufficient for the payment of the Demands aforesaid and with Costages charges And as Witnesses as the said Committee in pursuance of the above Appointment and by virtue of the Authority there side vested and upon the Demand aforesaid and for the purpose of paying the same the said Edward the sum of two Hundred Eighteen Dollars and for the purpose of paying the same the said Nathan aforesaid other sum of land of the State aforesaid to sell by Setting at Notification in the publick places in said Town of Charlestown & the Three adjoining towns and on the thirteenth day of April 1819 pursuant to said Notification and by the Authority aforesaid exposed the same sale at publick Auction in the Presence of a part of the Lands of the State aforesaid to by the highest bidder I do hereby attest the sum of 850$ to Gideon Burdick of said Charlestown Sherif now know that we the said Committee Edward Wilcox and Nathan V. Dixon aforesaid know by that we and the Committee Edward Wilcox and Nathan V. Dixon aforesaid for the Consideration of the Sum of thirty Dollars to us in hand before the executing & delivery hereof well and sufficiently paid by Gideon Burdick of Charlestown aforesaid the highest Bidder as declared publick Auction of the State aforesaid held the 23 day of April 1819 the receipt whereof we do hereby by Acknowledgment have Given & Granted and convey and by these presents do in our capacity Grant Bargain Sell Convey & confirm unto the said Gideon Burdick his heirs and Assigns for all the Estate Right Title Interest Property & Claim which the said Narragansett side of Sundown title had all the said aforesaid in and to said Narragansett Lot situated in Charlestown containing about one turn of the same or more or less bounded as follows Designing the first line from the east of some Stones w.N. 73 & to a Stone heap by a large rock then S. 46 & to the beginning at a heap of stones there w.N. 73 & to a Stone heap by a large rock then S. 46 & to the boundary of the heap of stones on a large rock then N. 46 & then bounded on the Highway to the Northmost boundary and together with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging easements ways Waters water courses transportation hereto belonging and Appertaining giving the same the said Narragansett lot furnished for convenience for the said Gideon Burdick and forever thereunto Bounden together with an oven and Pond water & other water Course the North line being as an Appurtenance of said Narragansett Lot to haul and to roll the Hollow above said Providence with all the privileges Appurtenances hereunto belonging to the said Gideon Burdick for his heirs and Assigns forever to him and the rest of us be & do we the said Committee covenant with the said Grantee his heirs forever that we have good right and lawful all power to sell & convey the Premises aforesaid in manner aforesaid In witness whereof we our seals attached set our hands and seals this 23 day of April 1819 at Charlestown aforesaid signed witnessed & delivered in presence of Edward Wilcox Committee Nathan V. 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