The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13267

1/10/1763 · DEED · book 2 page 111 doc 13267

From NINEGRETT THOMAS
To STILES ISAEL life
Consideration twenty Pound of Lawfull Money of the Colony of Rhode Island
Premises one hundred and Eight Acres or Less · parcels of Land situated in Charlestown around the hay (Charlestown, Brook)
Also on this page: RELEASE WILLCOX GEORGE EST · RELEASE CRAPO GENEVRA A 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

◀ 1762 · DEED · CRANDALL MARY; CRANDAL AHIJAH → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 98
◀ 1761 · AGREEMENT · NINEGRETT THOMAS; STILES ISRAEL → STILES ISRAEL; NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 74
◀ 1760 · DEED · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 20

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

John Kingyon · Enoch Kingyon

The instrument's own words

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Twentyseventh Day of September and in the Second Year of his Majesty Riggy, George the Third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain Amoy Domini 1762 The Ninegred [signature] Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of me Mary x Welch Joseph Crondal The above Deed was Recorded Dec the 10th 1762 by John Champlin Court Clerk Kings County [illegible] Personally appeared the Subscriber Thomas Ninegrat mary his wife, the Date above Written and acknowledged the above Instrument, to be their free act and Deed Before Joseph Crondal Justice of said Peace To All People to whom these Presents Shall Come Greeting Know all that I, Thomas a Ninegrat, Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indians, Free Indian Gent man for and Sufficient Consideration of the Sum of twenty Pounds of lawful Money of the Currency of Rhode Island to me in hand Already received and fully paid before the Executing hereof by Samuel Slocum of Charlestown in Kings County of Colony of Rhode Island England Common the First whereas I thereby Acknowledge and agree my said thread the fully Satisfied Contented and paid in all things and every Ground proceed the these lands to be forever acquitted and The shares said The lands shall be forever their presents Quite granted promised Sealed and delivered conveyed Enformed and by these presents do fully and absolutely grant release gain Said lands forever Convey and Confirm unto the said Samuel Slocum his Heirs and assigns forever pieces or parcels of Land situated in Charlestown around the hay lying on the east side of a Highway therefore Lying on the west side of said Highway Thomas Entirely Boundary by a stream called Brook in a certain be the Same or more or Less aforesaid as followeth Beginning at a stake of the South and Corner of the premises and of the South East Corner of that land that John Young formerly dwelt in George Ninegrat from thence Running Northerly bounding by the by the Land that John Young George of George Ninegrat until it Comes to a to the North East Corner of that land, thence Running Easterly bounding on the North by Land of Thomas Young land until it Comes to a Road therefore bound edly by the Highway therefore runs Eastward on the Land in the East, bounding and forever until it Comes to the first Mentioned Stake or Black stake the North East Contain by Estimation about one hundred and Eight Acres or Less bounded as followeth Westly by the aforesaid Highway Northerly by Samuel Slocum Land with the South East Corner therefore to attract the Said Samuel Slocum from Passage land from thence Between the South and west at therefore line toward the first Mentioned Bound and Bound in the last said land heretofore mentioned a Said Stake until it Comes to the aforesaid Highway To Have And To Hold the said Two hundred Acres or less of land with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to the Same Belonging or in any way appertaining unto him the said Samuel Slocum his Heirs and assigns forever to him and their only proper Use Benefit and Behoof.
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112 Behalf forever and the said Thomas Nicгреss of the Town of North Bargain and sale am the hour Seven and Six hundred of sale of the before Bargain Premisses and am Lawfully Seized and Possessed of the said of the same in mine Own proper, Rights, as of aged Proprietor and a Freehold Estate of said mine Own proper, Rights, as of aged Proprietor and a Freehold Estate of said witness in Their Simple and love in my Sole good right, full Power and Lawfull Authority to Sell and Dispose of the Same in the Same Manner as opposed and that, the said several Heirs his Heirs and assigns Shall and not ever hence by force and Virtue of these Presents Grant Bargain possess and enjoy the Same free and Clear of and free of all Incumbrances Incumbrances. Witness my Hand and Seal the Eighth my Seal his Hand Executor domi[n]i[c]us T. Nicгреss. [illegible] rights and Engages all the before Bargain Premisses within the said several Heirs his Heirs and assigns against the lawful Claims and Dem of any person or persons for ever here after to warrant Secure and Defend In Witness whereof whereafter she here unto sets my hand and Seal the Eighth Day of January in the third Year of the Reign of George the Third King of Great Britain annum Dom: 1763 Signed Sealed & Delivd Tho. Nicгреss in presence of annu[m] Kings County fo Peleg Cross Stephen Perry The above Deed was Recorded personally appeared in Charles town in the January 10th 1763 County the tenth Day of January D 1763 John Champli Tow Clerky of whom the Named Thom Nicгреss, and the within In Instrument’s his act, and Did hand and seal before — Peleg 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.