The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13199

6/8/1760 · DEED · book 2 page 9 doc 13199

From NINEGRET THOMAS life, NINEGREAT THOMAS life
To HOXSIE BENJAMIN life
Consideration one Thousand pounds current money of the Colony aforesaid
Premises One hundred and a Half · Traverse piece of land (Charlestown, Coke's low Land, Manning Brook)
Also on this page: RELEASE HATHAWAY HARRY S EST · RELEASE CHURCH ASA 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 ▸

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

▶ 1760 · DEED · HOXSIE BENJAMIN → SHEFFIELD CHRISTOPHER · book 1 p 445
▶ 1774 · DEED · HOXSIE MARY; HOXSIE BENJAMIN → SHEFFIELD REBECCA; SHEFFIELD NATHANIEL · book 3 p 175
▶ 1776 · DEED · HOXSIE MARY; HOXSIE BENJAMIN → HOXSIE THOMAS · book 3 p 227
▶ 1777 · DEED · HOXSIE THOMAS; HOXSIE BENJAMIN → GAVIT JOSEPH · book 3 p 257
▶ 1780 · DEED · HOXSIE BENJAMIN; BASSETT WILLIAM ESTATE → WEST NATHAN · book 3 p 309
▶ 1785 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HOXSIE BENJAMIN → MACOMBER JOSHUA · book 3 p 451

Bounded by

Benjamens Bramans · Bramans

The instrument's own words

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his Heirs and assigns forever In Witness Whereof The sd Joseph Soule and Alice Soule their Sole Heirs have set their Hands and Seals ye Eleventh Day of March in the 32 year of his Majestys Reign George ye 2nd King over Great Britain we Domini 1759- Signed Sealed and Delivered In presence of Meribah Perry Mary Gifford (Joseph Soule seal @ Alice Soule seal @ Jos Soule & his Wife Alice Soule pl. solemnly appeared in Charlestown Kings County and acknowled the above Instrument to be their act & Deed hands & Seals the Same Day year above Written before me Peleg Goss justice of the peace The above Deed was recorded June ye 7th 1760 by John Champlin Town Clerk To All People to whom these presents Shall come I Thomas Kinnegot of Charlestown in the County of Kings County & Colony of Rhode Island & Ct Geni and Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians Send Greeting know ye That I The Said Thomas Kinnegot for & in consideration of the Sum of one Thousand pounds current money of the Colony pl recid the Sd Sum in Hands before the sealing hereof well and suf fy paid by Benjamin Howes of Charlestown aforesaid Yeoman the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and by myself there with fully satisfied contented and paid and therefore of every part and parcel thereof to enumerate acquit and discharge the Said Benjamin Howes his Heirs executors and Admins forever thereby by these presents Have given granted and conveyed Sold all and appur tenances and confirmed and by these presents do fully full and absolutely give grant bargain Sell all alien and appur convey and confirm unto him the said Benjamin Howes his Heirs and assigns forever one certain Traverse piece of Land situate Lying and Being in Charlestown
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of the said containing by Estimation One hundred and a Half of the Same more or Less Butted and bounded as Followeth Beginning at a White oak Tree which is Benjamins Brownes North West Corner and from Thence West until it Comes to a Line made for a Fence on Through the Land called the Coke's low Land Thence South 77 1/4 Degrees East, until it Comes to a Stump with a Notch on it by the Brook called the Manning Brook Bounded Souther ly by said Brook Easterly partly by the aforesaid Benjamin Brownes Land and partly by said Brownes Land to gather with all the improvements unto Tenements ways Waters Hereditaments thereunto belonging and Appertaining To Have And To Hold the said granted and bargained Premises with all the Appurtenances privileges and Com modalities to the Same belonging or in any way appertaining unto him the said Benjamin Hoxie his Heirs and Assigns forever to his and their only proper Use Benefit and Behoof forever and I the said Thomas Narragansett, for me my Heirs Executors and Administrators do Covenant promise and grant to and with the said Benjamin Hoxie his Heirs and Assigns that as of before the Enscribing parts of this Indenture I am the true sole and lawful Owner of the above bargained premises and am lawfully Seized and of possession of the Same in my own proper right as good perfect and absolute state of Inheritance in fee Simple And have in my own Name good right full power and lawful Authority to grant bargain Sale convey and confirm the said bargained premises in Manner as aforesaid Said And that the said Benjamin Hoxie and his Heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter by Force and virtue of these presents Lawfully peaceably and Quietly Have Held Occupy possess and Enjoy the said demised and bargained Premises with the Appurtenances free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted and discharged and aspharged of and from all Manner of Tenures or other Gifts Grants Bargains Sales Leases Mortgages wills trusts probabilities Dowries Judgments Executions or Incumbrances of what Sort Nature Shade or what sight many Measure
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n Degree absolute & make Void this present Deed Furthermore I the said Thomas Nonegreat for my Self my Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant and Engage the above named predecessor to him the said Benja min Hoxie his Heirs and his assigns against the Lawfull Claims & Demands of any person in whatsoever whatsoever ever to warrant Secure and Defend by these presents In Witness Whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal this twenty Second Day of may in the Thirty Third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Brittain & Be in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Sign'd Seals & Delivered Thomas Nonegreat seal In the presence of Peleg Cross of John Hellen Kings County Ss: Personally appeared the subscriber Thomas Nonegreat the subscriber Written and Acknowledged the abov Instrument to be his act & Deed Before me The above Deed was Peleg Cross Just Peace Recorded June the 17 1760 of John Champlin Town Clerk

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