The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13221

3/15/1761 · DEED · book 2 page 45 doc 13221

From NINEGREAT THOMAS life
To KINYON JOSEPH
Consideration Nine Hundred Pounds
Premises one hundred acres · Parcel bounded by a brook and a small pond (Charlestown)
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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

▶ 1773 · MORTGAGE · KINYON JOSEPH → HULL JAMES · book 3 p 115
▶ 1773 · DEED · KINYON JOSEPH → KINYON JOSEPH JR · book 3 p 142
▶ 1773 · DEED · KINYON JOSEPH → KINYON JOSEPH JR · book 3 p 143
▶ 1796 · MORTGAGE · KINYON JOSEPH → WILCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 175
▶ 1797 · DEED · KINYON RUTH; KINYON JOSEPH → GREEN BROWNING · book 4 p 213
▶ 1816 · MORTGAGE · KINYON RUTH; KINYON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 262
▶ 1819 · CERTIFICATE · KINYON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 5 p 416

The instrument's own words

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forever In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seales the fifth day of September In the Thirty fourth of the Reign of George the Second King of Great Brittain Annoy Domine 1760 Sign. Seal & Deliverd In Presence offe John Corne Simeon Perry Ezekiel Smith Norman Binley George Lewis Seal Sarah S Lewis Seal mark The Within Named George Lewis personally appear'd the 12 Day of September A 1760 and acknowledg'd the write with in Written to be his act and Ded hand and seal Before Pot Taylor Justice of the Pea the above Deed was returned March 12 th 1767 John Champell Clerk To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come That I Thomas Newrigat of Charlestown in the County of Kent County and Colony of Rhode Island & Providce [illegible] of the Name gave Greeting Peace be to thee Whereas Thomas Newrigat [illegible] for and Consideration of the sum of Nine Hundred Pound Current Money of the Colony aforesaid be verse to me in hand before the Expiration of the whole of Well and Truly by Joseph Hingstone of Charlestown the County and colony fore Yeaman The Receipt Whereof I do hereby acknowledge and my self herewith fully satisfied contented and paid you & i them and of every Part and Parcel thereof do solemnly agree and dispose the said Joseph Hingstone His Heirs Execution to and Domining heirs by these Presents forever granted bargained sold aliened gift Conveyed and by these presents do fully and Absolutely give grant bargain sell alien convey confirm unto them the said Joseph Hingstone their heirs and forever a certain Tract or Parcel of Land situate lying and Charlestown aforesaid and containing My [illegible] acres more or less Acres bale same more or less Bounded as followeth Beginning at a Brook Near said Joseph Hingstone North East three Boundry North westerly forty by said ford and partly by a mill brook untilf
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To all People to whom these presents shall Come, that Thomas Kingred of Charlestown, in the County of Kings, Colony of Rhode Island & Co. Gent 1686 do give and Grant to Narragansett sachem of Indians and Gooking Narragansett That I Thomas Kingred, for and in consideration of [illegible] and in consideration of [illegible] and paid sound currency of the same paid to me and before the presenting parcel of land by Joseph Thoryon of Charlestown, in the County and Colony aforesaid’s demand the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and by myself herewith fully satisfied conveyed and paid; and here of and every part of, and parcel there of to convey sequel and discharge the said Joseph Thoryon this Here after recorded and admitted forever by these presents given granted bargained Sold advanced assigned conveyed and confirmed; and by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give over, bargain sell alien off by conveyance and confirm unto the said Joseph Thoryon his heirs and assigns forever certain Parcel of land situated in Charlestown, and being Charlestown aforesaid containing by estimation, one hundred acres the same more or less both Builted and Bounded as followeth viz Beginning at Boundary of Brooklyne and Joseph Thoryon North East, thence Bounding Easterly by Said Brook until it comes to a small Pond thence Bounding Northerly partly by Said Pound and partly by a small Brook until it comes at the aforesaid Joseph Thoryon’s boundary partly Bounding by said Joseph Thoryon’s line until it comes to the fore mentioned corner together with all his improvements fences ways waters water holes there unto belonging and appertaining. To Have and To Hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and Comodities there to the same belonging or any one or appertaining to the said Joseph Thoryon, his heirs and assigns forever to his and their heirs Joseph Thoryon his Benefits, and Behoof forever and that I Thomas Kingred, for once my self and my heirs their heirs Successors and assignees will to forever warrant, Promise and grant to and with the said Joseph Thoryon his heirs and assigns full and clear and before the conveying parcel there of free and lawful and full the above bargained premises and an absolutely seized and possessed of the same in own proper Right, as a signed personal and absolute estate of’s to have any restriction like and have in my self Good Right, full power and Lawfull to bargain grant convey and confirm the said bargained premises in Manner as aforesaid clear and that said Joseph Thoryon, his heirs and assigns shall own and from time to time and all times forever before hereafter before and Virtue of these presents lawfully by presently and quietly Have Had the occupancy possess free and enjoy the said and bargained premises with all the appurtenances free and clear and without any castle angles encumbrance and discharge of and from all and manner of former writhe title grants bargains sales leases Mortgages etc, entails Jointures Dowries Judgments executions or encumbrance of what Name or Nature whatsoever that nothing, in any Manner or form aforesaid obstruct or make void this present G. [illegible]
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For her more the said Thomas Rinegreat, for my self my Heirs executors and admin strators do Covenant and engage the above demised premisses to him the said Joseph Rinegreat his heirs in Opposition against the Lawfull Claims or demands of any person haven the Right specified for ever to covenant secure and defend by these presents In Witness whereof I have here unto set my seal hand and Seal this 16th Day of April in the Thirty Third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the [illegible] the 2nd of Great Britain Etc and in the year Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and sixty Signed sealed and [illegible] Rhymes County Thomas Rinegreat, D Delivrd in presence of us Personally appeard the b[ut]ler Gideon Hoxie Samuel Smith Thomas Rine Great the Date above Written and acknowledgd the above Document to be his act and Deed before me Gideon Hoxie the above Deed was recorded march 15 Day 1767 [illegible] Jan Champlin town Cl[erk] This Indenture between the parties witnesseth that Come I, Thomas Rinegreat, of Charlestown Rhymes County Colony of Rhode Island & Chief sachem of the Narragansett tribe of Indians Said Greeting Whereas that the said Thomas Rinegreat for his and his heirs of the sum of one Thousand Pound fine well and surely paid by Col Christoper Champlin before the registering place of the colony aforesaid and Joseph Newport witnesseth I do hereby ack nowledge and give up Solely therefore self called contented and paid and therefore on of every Part and parcel Parcel thereof to convey quit and discharge the said Chris topher Champlin his Executors and administrators forever by these presents Right given granted bargained sold altered ceased conveyed and confirmed and fully presents to grant fully and absolutely give grant full seisin enjoy possess and deli ver unto him the said Christopher Champlin her heirs and assigns forever one certain Tract or piece of land situated lying and being in Charlestown aforesaid containing by Estimation that it is once of four hundred twenty acres more or less fully bounded as follows the first bound is the some Mercy lot and six acres bounded on the south west border be the some Mercy lot and six acres bounded on the south the last Boundary are here Bounded as follows beginning at a fork’d Red Cedar tree marked with D[eg]rees of Bound[ary] North Westing the Easterly corner of [illegible] and from there South 23 Degrees west, 2 Chains 49 Links to a slipp[er]y Elm tree marked from there 23 Degrees South easterly 6 Chains to an old white oak stump from there 4 1/4 Degrees West 6 chains 20 Links to a pine tree marked and from there Running the East mentioned course until it Come to the Swamp thence running with said Swamp until it Comes to the Brook at or Near the Beaver Dams and

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.