The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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6/6/1774 · POWER OF ATTORNIEY · book 3 page 185 doc 12857

From STANTON JOHN life
To HELME ROUSSE life
Premises Seventy Acres... Nineteen Acres · salt marsh land and other land (Charlestown, Common Canter's Land, John Canter's Land, Christopher Potter's land, Daniel Canter's Land, Samuel Canter)
Also on this page: POWER OF ATTORNIEY HELME ROWSE J · RELEASE CARPENTER CHARLES B,II,EST · RELEASE PROSSER GEORGE H EST

Back — where this land came from

will Daniel Stanton
“in and by the last Will & Testament of Daniel Stanton... did give and devise to the Son of John Canton”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1772 · NOTICE · HOXSEY BENJN → TEFFT NATHAN; STANTON JOHN · book 3 p 80
◀ 1772 · NOTICE · STANTON PRUDENCE → STANTON JOHN · book 3 p 90
◀ 1772 · NOTICE · NOYES JOSEPH → STANTON JOHN · book 3 p 95
◀ 1772 · JUDGMENT · TEFFT NATHAN → STANTON JOHN · book 3 p 95
◀ 1767 · SECURITY BOND · TEFFT NATHAN → STANTON JOHN · book 2 p 312
◀ 1767 · AGREEMENT · STANTON JOHN; CONGDON JOHN → CONGDON JOHN; STANTON JOHN · book 2 p 354
◀ 1766 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CONGDON JOHN → STANTON JOHN · book 2 p 255
◀ 1751 · DEED · STANTON DANIEL → STANTON JOHN · book 1 p 286

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 Stanton · Christopher Babcock

The instrument's own words

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To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Adam Canton of Coronety in the County of Windham Colony of Connecticut Jourman Land and Greeting Whereas the said Adam is also Con and Heir at Law of John Stanton late residing in Charlestown in the County of Kent County Kent but now in CT Colony however and whereas in and by the last Will & Testament of Daniel Stanton late of Charlestown Jourman sewer declared the 8th Day of February Anno 1723 which said Will is duly proved and approved of The void Daniel Stanton among other Devises did give and devise to the Son of John Canton certain quantity of Land in said Charlestown with the appurtenances in and to the during the natural Life of the said John Canton and after his the said John Canton deceased to his Heirs forever Amen & by W Will recorded in the Office of General Court in the Town of Charlestown may at large Appear And whereas it is agreed between the parties John Stanton and the said Adam Canton that it shall and may be lawful for the said John Stanton & myself going to suffer a Time and common Recovery in order that the said John Stanton may have a good Perfect Title to the Remainder of the premises And in order to the perfecting the common Recovery I the said Adam Canton do by these Presents commit appoint and in my stead Place any Person of Smithfield in the County of Kings County of Kings Gentleman to be my true lawful sufficient and lawful Attorney and in my Name to make any Leap or Covenant of Hire in the Deeding & Title of Lands in manner as aforesaid And I do hereby ratify and fully impose the said Appointment to make & execute One Deed of Indenture whereas and what shall it may be lawful for the said Appointment of Helene to covenant and agree with the Demandant that the shall and may be lawful for the said Demandant of the open void Premises to demand against the Tenant of the freehold the aforesaid Lands and Tenements who shall call the said John Canton to warrant and after though vouch the void Adam Stanton who shall appear by his Attorney Henry Helene and thereupon vouch the common Voucher And I the said Adam Canton for my self my Heirs do covenant and agree that whatever the said Henry Helene shall do in the County shall be to all intents & purposes as good result as though I my self was personally present In Witness whereof I have hereunto hereunto my Hand & Seal the [illegible] day of [illegible] in the Sixth Year of the present Reign Anno 1771 Adam Stanton Ls Witness John Connel John Connel pf Windham County March the 21 1772 Then personally appeared the Adam Stanton the Signer & Enter of the foregoing Instrument and acknowledged it the same to be his Free Act Deed Before me Ephraim Root Justice of Peace To all People to whom these Presents shall come I John Stanton now of Coronety in the County of Windham Colony of Connecticut Jourman Land Greeting Whereas the said John Stanton in divers good Considerations to me hereinafter moving has constituted and appointed Henry Helene of South Kingstown in the County of Kings County to be my true and lawful Attorney & to act for me in all Case whatsoever but more especially to make & execute in my name all and singular Whatever Liens & Releases of Covenants of Office that shall and may be necessary in and for the following a Time and Common Recovery to pass sundry Lands & Tenements described in the specification of
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156 of a certain Deed to be had and recovered at the Session Court of Judicature Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery to be hold in South Kingstown in and in the County of Kings County the Court Monday of April 1872 And the said John Stanton do hereby order direct and empower the said Just[ice] [illegible] to do and execute all and singular the Lease Release & Covenants of said which shall full and may be necessary for the suffering the said Conveyance in manner or circumstances as ought & most effectual Manner in the [illegible] of it myself were personally present In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal. [signed] Carder Hobart [signed] John Stanton Let Witness [signed] Christopher Sheffield King's Court sc. George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland JJ King Defendant of the State and so forth Know ye ho That among the Pleadings of the Session Court of Judicature Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery Begun and held at South Kingstown within & in the County of Kings County the First Monday april in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our most just Majesty George the Third by the Style etc by 1772 at before Stephen Sheffield Esqr the [illegible] his relative justice of the said Court upon the Bill it contained King's County [illegible] as a Certain Deed of Judicature Court of Assize & General Gaol delivery begun Gaol at South Kingstown within & in the County of Kings County the First Monday of April in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our most just Majesty George the Third by the Style etc by 1772 Court Delivery of South Kingstown the County of Kings County Gent in his own proper Person demand agst James Potter gent of South Kingstown after [illegible] a certain Lease etc with Reserve of Rents & Parcels of land lying in Charlestown in said County One or void acres of salt marshes or salts of land containing Seventy Acres of salt marsh land and is bounded Northerly upon Common Canter's Land, Northerly upon John Canter's Land, North east upon Christopher Potter's land, Easterly upon Daniel Canter's Land the other East with East or of Canter's land containing Nineteen Acres of Land, and is bounded Northerly upon Common Canter's Westerly upon Samuel Canter, Northerly & Easterly upon Daniel Canter, as by the right and [illegible] and into which the said James Potter gent hath not enter unless only the [illegible] which entry just wrongfully and without just right’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

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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.