The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13325

1/18/1765 · DEED · book 2 page 205 doc 13325

From PRENTICE JONAS life, NOYS JAMES life, BREED JOHN life, WHEALER PAULL life, BROWN DANIEL JR life
To WELCH WILLIAM JR
Consideration one Pound Thirteen Shilling s and six pence Lawfull Money
Premises your acres · Swamp Island in nozzle S Swamp Satucket (Charlestown, nozzle S Swamp Satucket)

Back — where this land came from

grant Honorable General assembly of the State of Rhode Island
“appointed and Empowered by Honorable General assembly... to Dispose of and Sell Certain land... belonging to one John West”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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.

The instrument's own words

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No 31 All that Piece of Land to Whom these Presents Shall come Greetings Whereas Joannah Frontier, James Noyes, John Bond Paul Wheeler and Daniel Brown of Smokington in the County of New London and Colony of Connecticut on Selectmen of S Smokington being appointed and Empowered by Honorable General assembly of the State of Rhode Island at Providence on the last Wednesday in October in Year one Thousand Seven Hund red and Sixty three to Dispose of and Sell Certain land lying in Hopton town and Charlestown in Colony belonging to one John West of S Smokington an Important Person and Order of S Smokington do be therefore in virtue of said appointment and in our Capacity of Selectmen do for and in consideration of some Pound fourteen Shillings v and Six pence Sum of money to us in land Said William Welch 3rd of Charlestown for use of his Wife Which to our content became All since and Money and Conforme unto said William Welch 3rd his Heirs and assigns forever one certain Piece of land lying in a nozzle S Swamp Satucket lying and being in Charlestown aforesaid of Island and bounded by as we shall make upon your acres of Swamp Island and is bounded as followeth with boundary of Island on Every Side and twenty acres house on Island except on East Side and East Side is bounded Acres Done and all aforesaid land is bounded on Herry Side on frontiers Swamp Running on East Side and that on the South Part to St James’s Salt Marsh along the lake and there was an Order of forests and the said Joannah Frontier James Noyes John Bond Paul Wheeler and Daniel Brown of S Smokington as aforesaid Done in under Seal and sign as for our and our successors covenant to and with William Welch 3rd his Heirs and assigns that at all Revealing of these Presents he the Servant Success of same in manner and forme as aforesaid and that above Premises be free and Clear from all Incumbrances whatever furthermore we said Joannah Frontier James Noyes John Bond Paul Wheeler and Daniel Brown jpr
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Do now in our (said) party aforesaid for our selves and our Successors covenant to warrant and defend same from all Incumbrances whatsoever in Witness whereof we hereunto set our hand, and Seales this 6th Day of October 1765—and in the 14 Year of his Majesties Reign Signed Sealed and Delivered In Presence James Prountie James Noyes John Breed Duel Wheeler Daniel Brown Newlondon County Stonington September the 6th Day Personally appeared Jonas Prountie, James Noyes, John Breed Duel Wheeler, Daniel Brown for and acknowledged the above and foregoing Instrument to be their free act and Deed Before me John Williams Justice of Peace The above and Foregoing Deed Was Recorded the 18th Day of January 1766 [illegible] Jo Hoxsey Town Cl

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.