The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12743

8/9/1771 · DEED · book 3 page 67 doc 12743

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND & PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS life, NINEGRETT THOMAS DECEASED
To NYE ISAAC life
Consideration Forty Four Pounds, Five Shillings & 7 1/2 lawful Money
Premises Four Hundred Twenty Seven Acres and one Quarter · Tract of Land of Sound-Water (Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE WEAVER CHARLES A EST · RELEASE RICHARDSON WILLIAM J 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 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

Samuel Dorry · Simeon Hazard · Simeon Hazard · John Adams · Simeon Vickie

The instrument's own words

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in the Manner as aforesaid and that the said Robert Stanton his Heirs and Assigns shall and may from Time to Time return, and at all Times forever hereafter by force and virtue of this Present release, and enjoy the aforesaid demise and premises with the Appurtenances free and clear and fully and solely exempt and discharge of and from all Charges of Tenure or then yet paid, Grant, Quit Lease Forfeiture Mortgage Estate Duty Service Fealty Conveyance Forfeiture or Convenances whatsoever. Furthermore the said Joseph Clarke for himself his Heirs Executors and Administration with covenant and agree at the before described and bargained premises with the Appurtenances free and to the said Robert Stanton his Heirs and Assigns forever the lawful demise and Tenure and of any Conveyances patents letters charters grants surveys warrants Tenures and signed and sealed and Joseph Clarke Witness the said Joseph Clarke bothly hereby fully warranting and giving quit claiming surrendering all his Right Title Power and Tenure of Office and of the before described premises unto the said Robert Stanton his Heirs and Assigns forever. In Witness whereof we have hereunto our Hands and Seals and Date this Eighth Day of March and in the Eleventh year of his Reign. 1774 Joseph Reign [illegible] Joshua Clarke Mary Smith Richmond June 24th 1774 The above Deed was recorded the 28th day of June 1774 by Jonas Gordon Within the Jurisdiction Joseph Clarke personally appeared and acknowledged the within Instrument to be his real Act and Deed with his Hand and Seal there Affix’d to Before Edward Perry Justice of Peace To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England had heretofore appointed the Honorable Stephen Hopkins Esq. and Justice James Byles Esq. Justice Roger and Executors therefore Reg. a Committee to settle and adjust the Accounts and Demands of the Citizens of the Town of Newport during the Occupation of the mentioned Town and its ghost in the sole of vacant of his houses as well as damages to his Estate and the misery of Expenses attending v. affairs etc. whereas the said Robert Stanton in whose record it appears that several Demands of Title of Land bargained and sold and for this Purpose were not in the Possession of the said Robert only meant and conveyed to the Honorables of the Assembly and the former Assembly it then stood in May the 29th December 1777’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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68 absolutely, give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, convey, and confirm, unto him the said Dean Roy, his Heirs and Assigns forever, One certain Tract of Land of Sound-Water lying and being in the Town aforesaid, containing by Estimation, Four Hundred Twenty Seven Acres and one Quarter, be the same, more or less, bounded and described as follows Beginning at a Bound of (At the Order & Decree of the Sup. Court) that leads from Day Light East to the Highway with a Stone about 3 distance, being a South Corner of a Tract of Land from some other [illegible] by a Deed dated July 2nd 1747 from Crane to Allen & thence bounding easterly partly on some Land of Henry G. Day & partly on some Land of Joseph [illegible] in a South easterly bounding in Seven [illegible] Water shore, by the Indian Land, and from thence bounding westerly by a Highway, contained in a Deed, until it come to a White Oak the Stone boundary of the said Highway thence North Easterly to the first mentioned Bound To have and to hold the said grant and bargain, herize and with the Appurtenances provided, granted, convened, and Appertainances to the same belonging, in any wise appertaining unto him & his Heirs and Assigns his Heirs and Assigns forever and binding him and his present Descendants and Successors forever. And it is the Covenant and Consent agreed by and between the parties to and with the said Dean Roy, his Heirs and Assigns that he and his Assigns may forever have, hold, enter, occupy and enjoy the premises granted and conveyed to him and his Assigns of all the Lawful claims finding the said land by form or under the Allegation of any Title of Indians or their Rights or Title to it, by or under the form of some Indian Title In Witness whereof we the said Covenant, and said Conveyance have set our hands the said the thing first day of May in the Eleventh Year in the Eleventh Year in the Eighteenth Year George the Third King of England Great Britain & His Colonies Anno Domini 1788 Bind’s [illegible] & [illegible] In presence of Robt Potter John Congdon Charlestown in Kings County Ge December 1st appeared the Subscribers the Day and Date first above written and acknowledging the above and witness Entertainment to be theirs as Per Deed and Sale and State there to affirm Refer, on relig. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] The above and foregoing Deed were recorded the Ninth Day of August 1788 James Congdon the Town Clerk Know all Men by these Presents that we Daniel Seabury to William [illegible] the Subscribes named in the written Deed for and in Consideration of the Sum of Ten Pounds lawful Money paid me by Robert Howard of Charlestown in the County of Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations known between the parties of these presents, do hereby sell, release, remise, forge and convey unto the said Robert Howard, all the within granted and described Premises Land, and Appurtenances and, all the Right Title, Interest, Claim, in and to the same by from the witness of the written Deed To have and to hold the same Premises, Land and Appurtenances above, to him the said Robert Howard, his Heirs bounding and assigns, and assigning to him, his Heirs and Assigns and we Respect and [illegible] for money paid as the said Daniel Seabury, and William Seabury, do hereby seal our seal and

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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.