The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12709

7/7/1770 · DEED · book 3 page 31 doc 12709

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, NILES JAMES life, NILES SAM life, COHERS EPHRAIM life, JOE COZZEN life, LEWIS TOM life, JEFFREY JOE life, WAPPY ROGER life, SHADDOCK JOHN life, COHEES STEPHEN life
To ?
Consideration Two hundred Pounds Lawful Money
Premises 900 Acres · Two parcels: one 80 acres called the Big Stone, one 100 acres (Charlestown, Tupseyway Water, Hollowstone Brook, Kompany-me-tuck Brook, Martha's meadow, Coffin's Wharf)
Also on this page: RELEASE RAWDON WILLIAM R EST · RELEASE WRIGHT HIRAM LEROY EST

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. Colonial deeds rarely cite book and page; the land is followed by its bounds and its abutters from here. 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

Thomas Sachem · Thomas Sachem · James Perry · James Perry · Stephen Coghead

The instrument's own words

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To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greetings That we Adam Alice Abraham Cohres James Niles Corzen Joe Stephen Cohres John the Stedman Joe Jeffrey Tom Lewis and Roger Waggy all Indian Men of Charlestown in the County of Kings County Present Convey for the Tribes Indians called the Narragansett Tribe of Indians for and in Consideration of thirteen of Two hundred Pounds Lawful Money of New England paid before the Executing and Delivery hereof by Simon Nesfield of Southkingstown in the County of Kings County Given the Receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and by these follows Thousand Certified contained and just have and do by and with the Consent and Approbation of our said Council give granted and quit remised and of our Person’s Treaty to the said Simon Nesfield give grant and quit remise unto him the full Simon Nesfield and to his heirs forever all that Piece of Land called the Big Stone situated bordering upon Claim and Demand which the said Simon Nesfield had or ought to have of and unto one particular wrote or Parcel of Land situate lying in Charlestown in the now the more of which said Piece contains eight Eighty Acres the same or more or less and situated and described Truly verbatim as a Tupseyway Water on Land of Stephen Cohres southerly partly by a Brook called the Hollowstone Brook and partly on Land of James Perry and partly partly on the slippery and the partly on Kompany-me-tuck Brook and and East of Land of Edward commonly called by the name of Tom-Tuck with all the Privileges and Appurtenances to the same belonging Further of said Tract of Land contains about one Hundred Acres the same or more or less and is listed and bounded as followeth from Eastly upon Stephen Cohres and from thence running Northwesterly convey until it comes to Tucker’s Rock and from thence about Westward to a Maple Tree which a Maple Tree is James Perry Corner Bounds of the aforesaid farm and from thence Northward bordering to a White Oak Tree bordering Martha’s meadow by a Spring and by a Highway and from thence Southerly by a Highway leading down to Coffin’s Wharf until it comes to said Stephen Cohres Walkout corner and from thence running Eastward by Stephen Cohres Land until it connects the first mentioned Bounds Together with all the Privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging Tobins and to hold the above mentioned Tract of Land with all the said Simon said Simon Hazard and to his heirs and Assigns forever To and for his and for the said Simon’s own Person His Heirs and Beneficiaries in Witness whereof we in the said Council have hereunto in behalf of said Tribe Set our Hands and Seals the fourth day of November in the sixth Year of his highness Reign George the Third Anno Domini 1761 Signed Sealed and delivered in Presence of [illegible] Samuel Niles Abraham Cohres James Niles Corzen Joe Stephen Cohres Tom Lewis John the Stedman Joe Jeffrey [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 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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.