The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12824

1/17/1774 · DEED · book 3 page 151 doc 12824

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND & PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS life, NINEGRETT THOMAS DECEASED
To CROSS SAMUEL life
Consideration Five Pounds lawful Money
Premises Three hundred Acres · land in the North west corner (Charlestown, South Kingstown)
Also on this page: RELEASE HAESELER BERTHA R EST · RELEASE STEADMAN JENNIE M 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

▶ 1774 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS SAMUEL → CLARKE ELISHA · book 3 p 123
▶ 1778 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · CROSS SAMUEL; CRANDAL EBER → GARDINER EZEKIEL · book 3 p 260
▶ 1800 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → STANTON ROBERT · book 4 p 268
▶ 1800 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → BROWNING CHRISTOPHER · book 4 p 269
▶ 1800 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS SAMUEL → CHURCH ASA · book 4 p 271
▶ 1803 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 390
▶ 1803 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 394
▶ 1803 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 395
▶ 1825 · DEED · CLARKE RUTH; BROWNING CHRISTOPHER; TUCKER DORCAS; TUCKER SIMEON; TUCKE → CROSS JOHN · book 6 p 95

Bounded by

Stephen Champney · Stephen Perry

The instrument's own words

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182 The fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign George the third King of Great Britain, &c. Anno Domini 1773 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Henry Babcocks Joseph Crandal The foregoing Deed was recorded the 17th of January 1774 by James Congdon Reg. 7th Kings County ye Court appeared the subscribers The Date written above, and acknowledged the foregoing Instrument to be theirs their Acts Deed Hands & Seals Step. Hopkins LS J. Holmes LS Joseph Hazard LS Kyle Robinson LS Henry H. Terry LS Char. H. [illegible] LS Jos. Babcocks Joseph Crandal John [illegible] Christopher H. Terry LS To all People to whom these Presents shall return, John Anthony, and Sarah his Wife, residing of Charlestown, in the County of Kings County, and Citizens of Rhode Island & Province southernmost Parting. Whereas that, we or John Anthony, and Sarah [illegible] contrary, in a Convention of the said Town of Providence’s [illegible] land lying in the North west corner and twenty feet and by Jonathan Perry, of South Kingstown in the County and Colony aforesaid’s the North west corner, we do hereby acknowledge and convey our hereby fully justified, certified and [illegible] and remise release and forever give grant quitclaim and by these Presents do remise release & forever quitclaim and surrender unto the said from the said Perry, and to his heirs and Assigns forever, all our Right Title Claim and interest of Tenure of the Land said to my for the Tenure [illegible]’s field to jamie Perry, of Kingstown, aforesaid’s the whole said land containing about Three hundred Acres bounded North by Christopher Champion, Northerly partly on the East part, and partly on Land now in Possession of Stephen Perry, and Easterly Southerly in the South Corner Part of said Land now in the possession and East Easterly be had with every Deed and with more fully appear. Whereas we with all my Right Title Claim and in and unto the oven said Land. It is known and the said jamie perry and released Conveyance with any Cost and Parcel thereof unto the said jamie Perry, his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his only proper usefully His Heirs and heirs of forever of jamie Perry, and the said John Anthony and Sarah my Wife, on their Heirs forever. nor any other Person, or to whom it shall return, or at any time hereafter, have Claim Exchange &’s any Estate Right Title or Interest in Possession of or in the said hereby remised released Conveyance or any Part thereof. However, but shall be utterly voided, and canceled, and forever altered by the said Perry. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals the seventh Day of January, and in the thirteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Design AD 1774 Signed sealed & delivered in presence of Jos. Hazard Sam. Babcock jr The above instrument was recorded the 9th Feby 1774 by James Congdon Reg. 7th Kings County ye Court At Charlestown the 7th of February AD 1774, in the presence Person came and appeared John Anthony & Sarah Anthony, and acknowledged the within and above Instrument to be their voluntarily Act and Deed Hands & Seals Before John Hazard Justice of the Peace John Anthony LS Sarah Anthony LS

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.