The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12496

7/1/1830 · LEASE · book 6 page 223 doc 12496

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, NOCAKE GIDEON life, PAUL LODOWICK life, CHAPMAN BETSEY life, GARDNER POLYDORE life, CHAPMAN SIMEON life, NOCAKE JAMES life, AMMON GEORGE life, PETERS JOSEPH life
To PETERS JOSEPH life
Consideration One Hundred and Seven Dollars
Premises Four hundred and fifty feet · Land bounded by Coffin, Middleick, Stanton, and Indian Cedar swamp (Charlestown, Indian Cedar swamp)

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 record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

Bounded by

Stanton

The instrument's own words

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223 This Indenture of Slave made this 31st of October A.D. 1829. by and between Betsey Chapman Member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society of Indiana on the One part; and Poly Dora Gardner of South Kingstown on the Other part. The said Betsey Chapman on the 10th of June last sold the said Gardner Certain Ten feet or parcels of Land lying in Charlestown, State of Rhode Island, bounded on the Beginning on the Northeast corner with the Land of Coffin a boundary line Running on the Bearing on the North east course from North West to South east from the point where the westerly on boundary of Robert Middleick and Samuel Stanton, and other part it comes to the Indian Cedar swamp then running South east only on said Swamp until it comes to the South east corner of said Swamp then running South easterly on said Swamp until it comes to the first mentioned bounds by her Execution around on Four hundred and fifty feet be the same more or less. The said Poly Dora sign made agreement further with Betsey Chapman and her Administrators and Assigns to pay or cause to be paid to Betsey Chapman or her heirs or Assigns the sum of leave thousands Dollars the 3rd Gardner agrees to pay Betsey Chapman the sum of one thousand and five Dollars on the 20th of April and fifty Dollars on the 20th of April of the aforesaid thousand Dollars on the Premises, and the remainder is to be paid after the year 1831. The said Betsey Chapman with all her heirs or Assigns to Warrant the aforesaid Land unto the said Gardner and her heirs forever from the 15th day of October the fifteenth day October One thousand Eight hundred and thirty one, and to Expire the date of the One thousand Eight hundred and thirty one the 31st day of October. The said Gardner has Agreed not sell stuff out of the Bench of Cedar swamp for the benefit of the place, and in due time there on the place at the End of the term, the said Gardner shall be the Owner, and to Sunday them and to Engage all the Privileges on said place as she shall see fit, and the said Betsey Chapman and deemed agreed until the Closing unto the said Gardner, or her heirs or assigns, and at the end of the term, the said Gardner does further opt her heirs and assigns to yield up the premises in a peaceable and Quiet possession unto the beneficial term, the said Gardner has No Right to sell wood stuff and silver no waste is to be made on the place during the term of the year, the said statements we have set our hands and seals this 31st day of October in the year of our Lord 1829. In pursuance of the void Betsey Chapman further agrees for the said Gardner her Right for fire wood and the said Gardner has Agreed to carry of only as much fire wood as she may take day or bring on said Land and also the Buildings she may build at her own Expense she Right to carry them off at the End of the term of tenure. Witness Abra Stanton. Betsey Chapman L.S. Poly Dora Gardner L.S. [illegible] mark. Simon Chapman L.S. Daniel Secretary. Poly Dora Gardner L.S. Ledowich L.S. Paul L.S. October 1st A.D. 1829. Received of Poly Dora Gardner 8 113/4 Dollars as within the Lease as its aforesaid men said Simon Chapman as towards part of the Day. Simeon Chapman L.S. Oasar Babrick Edward Gardner James x Noah L.S. George x Ammon L.S. Odion x Noah L.S. Joseph x Below L.S. mark. Record the above Lien July the first D. 1830. per Samuel Stanton T. Clerk Washington Co.

The page as recorded

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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.