The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13583 › 13621 › 12859

6/6/1774 · EXECUTION · book 3 page 186 doc 12859

From POTTER THOMAS JR life
To HELME POWELL life
Consideration Thirty One Pound, Five Shillings & Four pence
Premises Thirty Acres · salt marsh land (Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE DUCEY THOMAS H EST · RELEASE GANUNG THEODORE 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

◀ 1774 · LEASE · STANTON JOHN BY ATTY → POTTER THOMAS JR; HELME POWELL · book 3 p 179
◀ 1774 · LEASE · STANTON JOHN BY ATTY → POTTER THOMAS JR; HELME POWEL · book 3 p 180
◀ 1744 · DEED · BABCOCK GEORGE → POTTER THOMAS JR · book 1 p 126

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

Common Canton · John Canton · Christopher Paterson · Daniel Canton · Samuel Canton · Daniel Saunders · Daniel Saunders · Isaac Ross · Isaac Ashe

The instrument's own words

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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 substances as equitable & just & effectual Manner in the [illegible] of it we of ourselves personally present In Witness whereof we 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 fo Forth Know ye 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 etc before Stephen Sheffield Esqr the [illegible] his relative justice of the said Court upon the Bill it contained Kings County's [illegible] as a certain Court of Judicature Court of Assize & General Gaol delivery begun Gaol 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 etc Court of South Kingstown, the County of Kings County Gent in his own proper Person demands of 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 Thirty 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 Marsh 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 has not enter unless after the [illegible] which engine and hence unjustly and without just cause made in the said James Potter alone within this year 12 mo and done upon the said James Potter’s fine of four score and four pounds of the Land of George the Third with the guarantee in his Demise as of the & Right in the name of Cause of our Land the thing now is by taking the full Profit thereof to the Value of 20s, and thereupon he brings his suit resp. and the after said James Potter gent in his own proper Person comes & defends his Right when re. and calls desired of several persons Santon now of Charlestown after said Person who is now present Person freely the said two Lts East or Parcels of Lands with their Appurtenances to him with several etc. and thereupon the aforesaid Powell Palmer demands against the said John Stanton Tenant by his Warranty now afore s. two Lts East or Parcels of Lands with their Appurtenances in him afore, and whereas he smith he himself was fired in his Demise as of the & Right in the name of Cause their in the name of Our Land the thing now is by taking the full Profit thereof to the Value of 20s. And into which the Ad thereupon he brings his suit resp. and the afore John Stanton Tenant by his Warranty now & defends his Right when re. and further calls Thomson to warrant Adam Stanton Porter of Common
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187 in the County of Windham & Colony of Connecticut Jonathan Slocum, who is here in Court by Receipt of Patience of North Kingstown his attorney, and freely the aforesaid [illegible] two Lots of Land and with their appurtenances to him doth warrant Op. And whereupon the aforesaid David Palmer demands against the said Adam Stanton Tenant by his warrant the aforesaid [illegible] two Lots, [illegible] or Land and with their Appurtenances in form aforesaid. And whereas in fact he hath long since received the same in Demesne as of Use and to Right, the Term of One Day the thing that Nature now is taking the said Patience there to the Value of 4s. And into which he brings his first plea And that the aforesaid Adam Stanton Tenant by his Warranty by Receipt of Patience his attorney was defended the Right alone & that within this entire Consideration to Warrant Richard Gulley, who is here in Court in his own proper Person and freely the aforesaid [illegible] two Lots, [illegible] or Pieces of Land their Appurtenances whim doth warrant Op. Whereupon the aforesaid David Palmer demands against the said Richard Gulley Tenant by his Warranty the aforesaid [illegible] two Lots, [illegible] or Pieces of Land their Appurtenances in form aforesaid. And whereas in fact he hath him self’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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192 April, on the Twenty fourth Year of Our Reign Anno Dom 1772 D^r Rodman [illegible] The above going Instrument of Composition of the Deuce of the Superior Court rep^r to the presiding [illegible] Tim and Common Treasury, as above, and the above fee, for Commissioner rep^r, entered in the Nine preceding Pages were recorded on and before the 6th Day of June 1774. By James Congdon the D^r Town Clerk To all People to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting; Knowye That Benjamin Colt late of Marble Hd moving in Warwick in the County of Kent in New Avalon in the Colony of Connecticu in New England, Gent, and in Consideration of the Sum of Fifty One Pound, Five Shillings, & ten pence lawful Money, to me in Hand paid, before the Signing and Delivery of this present Indenture by Caylor Slye of Charlestown, in Providence County and Colony of Rhode Island, Dr the Agreed wife of the body aforesaid, witnesseth, that he fully seized and contented and paid, and he and his heirs and of every Other Person free from all demands and discharges, the said Jno Slye, his Heirs and Assigns forever by his Presents, Absolutely grant, bargained sold, aliened, conveyed and confirmed, and unto the said Jno Slye, his Heirs and Assigns forever, a certain Plot of Land in the Town of Land lying and being in Charlestown in Providence County containing Ten Acres, On the Easter and westerly eighty rods’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’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.