The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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2/11/1773 · LEASE · book 3 page 109 doc 12783

From TEFFT NATHAN life, TEFFT ISABEL life
To STANTON SUSANNAH life
Premises Twelve Arpents · Land south of post road, including room under kitchen and garden (Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE MEEHAN MARGARET M EST · RELEASE KITSON MAUD S EST

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

◀ 1773 · DEED · BROWNING JEREMIAH → TEFFT NATHAN; TEFFT ISABEL · book 3 p 111
◀ 1772 · NOTICE · HOXSEY BENJN → TEFFT NATHAN; STANTON JOHN · book 3 p 80
◀ 1761 · DEED · STANTON JOHN; STANTON DORITHY → TEFFT NATHAN · book 2 p 72
◀ 1761 · DEED · STANTON JOHN; STANTON DORITHY → TEFFT NATHAN · book 2 p 73

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.

The instrument's own words

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(109) This Indenture Made the Twenty Ninth Day of January, in y^e 14th year of y^e Reign of y^e King George y^3rd King of Great Britain 1773 Between Nathan Tefft of Eastonze in y^e county of Albany and province of Newyork Yeoman of y^e One part and Isannah Stanton of crystallization in Kent county of colony of Rhode Island Sissons to Thomas Stanton Late of y^e said State deceased of y^e whole Part of y^e Lot that y^d Nathan Tefft & of Nathan Tefft of y^e Province of Newyork taining during her Natural Life and after y^e Death of her said Life Estate by her Deed Registered Rhode Island Thomas Stanton of y^e aforesaid Part of y^e Isabel Tefft wife of y^d Nathan Tefft the receipt whereof she acknowledges acknowledged by y^d Nathan Tefft hath grant bargain^d & Agreed to & Conveyed to presently To the grant & Lease unto y^d Isannah Stanton of great room in presently To the grant & Lease unto y^d Isannah Stanton of great room in under y^e Kitchen with y^e South west Bedroom over with Stove with Chimney under y^e Kitchen with y^e South west Bedroom over with Stove with Chimney Liberty to bake in y^e Oven with y^e privilege of as many Summer with Liberty to bake in y^e Oven with y^e privilege of as many Summer apples as she Shall want to Eat and ten Bushels of Winter apples and as Many more apples as will make four Barrels of y^e every year with one half of y^e garden to y^e Part of y^e house in which y^e whole Shall Be contained half of y^e garden to y^e Part of y^e house in which y^e whole Shall Be contained to y^e West of y^e House with y^e privilege of cutting and hauling three Cord of wood yearly on some part of y^e Land given to y^d Isabel Tefft (Cord of wood yearly on some part of y^e Land given to y^d Isabel Tefft in a convenient place to set her wood in the Twelve Arpents of Land to be Layd Out square lying in y^e Southward of y^e post road bounding Easterly on y^e Unnamed Star Man’s Land Northward on y^e road bounding Easterly on y^e Unnamed Star Man’s Land Northward on y^e road bounding Westerly on y^e Leathers with all the profits pertaining unto the conveying To have & To hold to y^e sole use benefit of y^d Isannah Stanton during her life She shall have common Timber & Rotation wooden Vanton during her time She shall have common Timber & Rotation wooden as aforesaid & For which Witness whereof y^e parties to these presents have set their Hands and Seals to this & other of y^e same Tenure and date Day of month & year first above written Nathan more y^d Isabel Tefft wife of y^d Nathan Tefft do give with my^d Husband in y^e leaving wife of y^d Nathan Tefft do give with my^d Husband in y^e leaving of premises for & conjunct to y^e same Witness my^d Hand and seal Nathan Tefft with him Isabel Tefft @ James Boone Simcon Perry Kent County Kings County personally appear Nathan Tefft and Isabel Tefft my wife Segnature, y above Assignment the 29th day of January 1773 and acknowledge & concur to their free Acts and Deeds with their Hands & seal before me Simcon Perry Justice of the peace The above Assignment here to offered Before me Simcon Perry Justice of the peace was recorded the 11th Day of Feb 1773 Jos Hanton G^r & C

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.