The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13232

6/1/1761 · DEED · book 2 page 62 doc 13232

From NINEGREAT THOMAS life
To NIE ISAAC life
Consideration Fourteen Hundred Pounds Current money of New England
Premises forty one acres and a half · one certain Tract of parcel of Land (Charlestown)
Also on this page: RELEASE JENKS C BROWNING EST · RELEASE OSTERHUS GUSTAV 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 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

Joseph Boxee · Amos Greens · Joseph Thingyon · Joseph Jeffery · widow Woppy

The instrument's own words

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To All People to whom, these presents shall come; of Thomas Nonesquaw, of Charlestown, in King County & Colony of Rhode Island a Subject of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians. Send Greeting Know ye That I the said Thomas Nonesquaw, for and In Consideration of the Sum of Four Hundred Pounds Currency, Currency of New England paid to me in hand before the Justice of the peace well and truly paid by I Saac Hees of South Kingstown in the county & Colony aforesaid Yeoman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and do say that severe with fully satisfied contented and paid ofs thereof, and of every part, and parcel thereof do exconerate acquit, and discharge the said Isaac Hees his heirs executed and Administrator forever by these Indentures have given granted bargained sold alien conveyed and confirmed conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do fully sell and al Stutely give grant bargain Sell alien conveyed and confirm unto the said Isaac Hees his Heirs and Assigns forever one certain Tract of parcel of Land Situate lying and being in Charlestown aforesaid Containing by Estimation forty one acres and a half be the Same, it being butted and bounded as followth beginning at a Stake Standing in the East side of a Brook about 6 feet from a Maple Tree Standing on the West side of said Brook it being the South west corner of this tract, and from there East one Degree South 32 Chams & 50 Links to a Stake and Stones by the Edge of a path near a pine Tree marked from there North 39th Degree East 6 Chams & 75 Links from there North 23 1/2 Degrees East 17 Chams & 20 Links to a Rock which is the North west corner of Joseph Tucks His Land and the South west Corner of Amos Greens Land and from there West 13th Degree North 33 Chams & 58 Links to a Pole Tree marked from there South 55th Degree East 13 Chams to a Stone both Marked Standing by the aford Brook thome up Stream & Brook the fore mentioned Stake Bounding by Joseph Tucks Land westerly Southerly and Easterly on the Grantees Land and North on the Grantees Land now in Possession of Joseph Tucks the widow Ashley To All Risk And Heirs to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances Privileges and Commodities to the Same belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Isaac Hees his heirs and assigns for ever to his and their only proper Use and and Behalf of her over and I the said Thomas Nonesquaw for my self my Execution and Administration do Covenant promise and surety and with the said Isaac Hees his Heirs and assigns that at all the Ensaying hereof I am the true sole and Lawfull owner of the sta Bargained Premises and am Lawfully Seized and possessed of the
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(69) Same in ony own proper Right, as a good perfect, and absolute Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple and have in my self good Right full power and lawful Authority to grant, bargain Sell convey and convey the said Bargained premises in Manner as aforesaid. And that the said Isaac Wee his heirs and assigns shall and any from time time and ab, all Times forever hereafter, by force and virtue of these presents safely Peaceably and quietly Have Hold occupy possession enjoy the said demised and bargained premises with all the appurtenances there and clear and freely and clearly acquitted remised and released of and from all and all manner of former or other his right Grant Bargain Sales leases Mortgages wills, Entails Sentences Decrees Judgments leases ons or Incumbrances of what, Name or Nature soever that might in any Measure or Degree of Amount or make void this present Deed. I further swear that I the said Thomas Ninegreat, for my self my heirs Executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above demised premises unto the said Isaac Wee his heirs and assigns against the lawfull Claims or Demands of any persons or disturbances forever forever to warrant Seizure and defend by these presents indly and apps where of I the said Thomas Ninegreat, have hereunto set my Hand and seal this first Day of June in the first Year of the Majesties Reign George the third King over of Great Britain Anna Domini 1761 Signed Sealed & Delivered In presence of us Timo th Lock gr Joseph Crandol The above Deed was recorded June the first, Day 1761 Jno Champlin Town Cl Thomas Ninegreat Kings county fo Personally appeared the Subscriver Thomas Ninegreat, the Date above written and acknowledged the above Instrument to be his act, & Deed before me Joseph Crandol Justice 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.