The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13212

9/23/1760 · DEED · book 2 page 33 doc 13212

From NINEGRETT THOMAS
To COLEGROVE OLIVER life
Consideration Three Thousand Nine Hundred pounds Current Money of ye Colony aforesaid and Tenor
Premises Two Hundred and Seven acres · Plot of land bounded by Pawcatuck River (Charlestown, Pawcatuck River)
Also on this page: RELEASE WOLF AUSTIN M EST · RELEASE DUDLEY MARY OTIS 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

◀ 1760 · DEED · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 20

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

▶ 1762 · DEED · COLEGROVE OLIVER → AUSTIN ROBT · book 2 p 91
▶ 1763 · AGREEMENT · KINYON JAMES; COLEGROVE OLIVER → COLEGROVE OLIVER; KINYON JAMES · book 2 p 121
▶ 1765 · DEED · COLEGROVE OLIVER → KINYON JOSHUA · book 2 p 211
▶ 1766 · AGREEMENT · KINYON SAMUEL; COLEGROVE OLIVER → COLEGROVE OLIVER; KINYON SAMUEL · book 2 p 246
▶ 1770 · DEED · COLEGROVE OLIVER; COLEGROVE ESTHER → CRANDAL EBER · book 3 p 36
▶ 1771 · DEED · COLEGROVE OLIVER; COLEGROVE ESTHER → KNOWLES DANIEL · book 3 p 70
▶ 1787 · DEED · COLEGROVE OLIVER; COLEGROVE HESTER → WORDING CHRISTOPHER · book 3 p 527

Bounded by

Jonathan Kinyon · Jonathan Kinyon · James Kinyon · Robies, Austin · Samuel Kinyon

The instrument's own words

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To All People or Notion whose these presents Shall Come, that I Thomas Nimgrill of Charlestown in the County of Kings County and Colony of New England &c. Chief Justice of the Narragansett India of Narragansett Sound Greeting Or to whom it may concern that I, Thomas Nimgrill for and in Consideration of the Sum of Three Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds current Money of y^e Colony aforesaid to Governor Moore before the presiding Justice and Company by the Presence of two Witnesses in the County and Colony aforesaid Husband and Company by the Receipt hereof I hereby acknowledge and certify myself therefore satisfied contented and paid there and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof do convey relinquish and desisting the said Oliver Degrove his Heirs executors and Assigns forever forever by these Presents Have given granted bargained to said aforementioned conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien convey convey and confirm unto the said Oliver Degrove his Heirs and their Assigns forever a Certain Plot or parcel of land Situated lying & being in the town aforesaid Containing by Estimation Two Hundred and Seven acres the same be more or less Bounded and abutted as follows Beginning at the Black Oak Tree by the Pawcatuck River which was as it notation Hingens N.E. Corner Thence S.E. 28.8 Chain to the White Birch which marked as the said Hingens N.E. Corner Thence S.E. 35.6 Chain to a pine tree marked as in 4.y^e Thence N.E. 35.9 Chain thence to a White oak tree marked on the Side by the letters N & D. Thence B. Bounding by said River to the first mentioned boundary Northly partly Bounding or land belonging to James Hingens and partly on the Groutian by Easterly partly Northly or land belonging to A. River Justice and partly on this aforesaid frontage land Easterly or land belonging to the office said Southern Hingens and partly on the Southly or land belonging to Samuel Hingens and Westerly by partly on Land be long to the aforesaid Samuel Hingens and partly in Southly to River other to offset with all improvements fencing ways mete Hereditaments thereunto be what there belonging and appurtenances To Have and to hold the said granted and bargain and premises with all the appurtenances privileges and Immunities thereunto belong belonging oven my wife appertaining to the said Oliver Degrove his heirs here and assigns forever to his and their own proper use Benefit and bekey here and assigns the said Thomas Nimgrill grant for myself my Heirs executors indemnification protecten Covenant promised grant and summed with the said Oliver Degrove his Heirs and assigns that as and before the enclosing here from the said I have the and lawful owner of the above granted premises and on fully good Justified and suffered of the same in my own proper Right as proper perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance in the Simple and have my own stand right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and confirm the said bargain and premises in manner as aforesaid and that the said Oliver Degrove his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and as all times forever hereafter by force and virtue
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of these presents lawfully peaceably and quietly Have Hold Use Occupy possess and Enjoy the said Demised and Bargained premises with the Appurtenances free and Clear and freely and Clearly acquitted exonerated and Discharged of and from all and all manner of former Gifts Grants Bargains sales Mortgages Wills Entails Indentures Decrees Judgments Executions or Incumbrances of What Nature Soever That might in any Manner or Purpose obstruct or make Void these presents Ded Furthermore I do Thomas Nenegrett for my self my Heirs executors and administrators Do Covenant and Engage the above Demised premises to him the said Oliver Coleman his Heirs and Assigns against all Lawful Claims and Demands of my person portion or Possess Whatsoever of several Nature and species by these Presents In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal this First Day of September in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sover eign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain &c anno Domini 1760 Signed Sealed and Delivered on the presence of Peter Cross William Petty the above Deed was recorded September 23 1760 John Compton Town Clerk Thomas Nenegrett, [seal] Kent County P Judex ride Thomas Nenegrett the Date above written Acknowledged the above Instrument to be his act and Deed Before me Peter Cross Justice of the peace

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.