The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12736

6/7/1771 · DEED · book 3 page 61 doc 12736

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND & PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS life, NINEGRETT THOMAS DECEASED
To WELCH WILLIAM life
Consideration Sixty Spanish Milld Dollars
Premises none · Narragansett Lands (Narragansett Country, Rhode Island & Providence Plantations)
Also on this page: RELEASE CUNNINGHAM MARY MADELINE EST · RELEASE SUNDERLAND BELLE O 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 ▸

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1762 · DEED · CRANDALL MARY; CRANDAL AHIJAH → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 98

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

▶ 1775 · DEED · WELCH WILLIAM → WELCH HENRY · book 3 p 209

The instrument's own words

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To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas we, General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esqr James Thomas Covey Esqr Joseph Wanton Esqr by [illegible] Nicholas Lawton Esqr, a Committee to settle and adjust the Right & Demands of the Crown of England Narragansett Lands situate in the Narragansett Country of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations in New England, had heretofore appointed the Rightble Stephen Hopkins Esq

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.