The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13217

1/24/1761 · DEED · book 2 page 40 doc 13217

From NINEGREAT THOMAS life
To HONYMAN JAMES life
Consideration One hundred Pounds
Premises four hundred acres · Easterly most partly or half parts of 400 acres (Charlestonn)
Also on this page: RELEASE TALBOT THOMAS O EST · RELEASE GERRISH IDA 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 ▸
unknown James Hemingway
“bought from James Hemingway of New port”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1766 · DEED · HONYMAN JAMES; HONYMAN ELIZABETH → PERRY JAMES · book 2 p 283

Bounded by

Christopher Champlin · Christopher Champlin

The instrument's own words

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(50) To all People to whom these Presents shall Come I Thomas Nimigrett of Charlestonn in the County of Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island & Chief sachem of the Narragansetts tribe of Indians Gentilalman do find & witness that I Thomas Nimigrett for and in Consideration of the sum of One hundred Pounds current Money of said Colony given to me in hand before Delivery of the all and sundry land and Meadows bought from James Hemingway of New port in the County of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island of me the receipt where of I do here by acknowledge my self to have with fully satisfied and paid Have given granted bargained and sold and ever after released cleared released clear & common warranty by these presents do fully convey free and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien enfeoff remise release clear & common form into the hands of James Hemingway in his full power quiet peaceable possession for him and his heirs and assigns forever all the full right Title Interest Inheritance Inheritable Property by specifying Reservation Claim or Demand of one of the said and the Demised premises even to the Easterly most partly or half parts of four hundred acres of Land situate in Charlestonn aforesaid bounded and bounded as following beginning at a mark Stone by a boundary North which is the North East corner of Charlestonn Champion land by y^e boundary North which is the North East corner of Charlestonn Champion land and the North West corner of this North boundary running North thirty four ye part half deg North west forty four Chains & seventy rods from ye mark Stone by y^e road from there to a bold Stone North thirty one Degree East until it comes to a heap of Stones there to a bold Stone from thence running Northerly by a bold Stone until it comes to a Stake & Stone by said bold Stone from thence running west seventy four & an half Degrees Stake & Stone by said bold Stone from thence running west seventy four & an half Degrees South sea Chains and thirty one rods into a Stake or Stones by y^e Degre said bold Stone easterly by said bold Stone until it comes round Champion land boundary there westerly by said bold Stone until it comes round Champion land boundary Westerly by said Champion land hand Northerly by the boundary North easterly by ground land southerly partly by said bold Stone and partly by y^e road of land belonging to me grantor To have and to hold all the above described released Demised all and sundry the Rights titles Profits Privileges and appurtenances to James belonging in any wise by printenancing unto him and his heirs James Hemingway his belonging in any wise by printenancing unto him and his heirs forever In Warranty heirs & assigns over this and their own heirs forever legit and real this 15th day of January where of I have here unto set my hand and seal this 15th day of January Anno Domini 1767 g Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of us Peter Bowes Hannah Dyer Lupresis, js January 16th 1767 g Personally appeared Thomas Nimigrett and acknowledged the above and foregoing instrument to be his act and Deed Before Peter Bowes Justice of peace Thomas Nimigrett Seal The above Deed was recorded January 17th Day 1767 g John Champion Town Clerk

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.