The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13640 › 13639 › 13347

6/28/1765 · DEED · book 2 page 236 doc 13347

From LEWIS NATHANIEL life
To HALL JOSEPH life
Consideration seven thousand & ten hundred pounds Money old Sterling
Premises about Fifty acres of Upland and about Forty five acres of Salt Marshland · Island known as Matunucky Island (Matunucky Island, Only Island)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1762 · DEED · CONGDON JOHN; CONGDON SARAH → LEWIS NATHANIEL · book 2 p 87
◀ 1741 · DEED · NILES EBENEZER; NILES SARAH → LEWIS NATHANIEL · book 1 p 143

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 Gordon

The instrument's own words

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286 Appease so much the Sanguine Stance on Demands of any person or some Whosoever forever to Warrant Seize and Defend by these presents and Deborah the Wife of me said Nathan Hall she by these presents to forty one within six years of age and Surrenders as her Right of Dower a Piece of [illegible] and unto the above Demised premises but from the Land Nathan whose Heir to be and Executrix forever In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the Twenty Sixth Day of April in the year of our Lord 1705 and in the 4th Year of the Reign of George the third [illegible] Signed Sealed and Delivered Nathan on Hall [seal] Deborah Hall [seal] In Presence of Jonathan Slate Peter Clark Rhode Island County to wit personally appear the Subscriber and acknowledged the petition within Declared to his act and Deed Hand and Seal this Thirty First Day of October [illegible] to be before one [illegible] I attest Dec’d and Recorded 26 Day of June [illegible] All People to whom these presents Shall Come Come Nathaniel Lewis of South Kingstown in County of RI County Yeoman sends Greetings Be it known that I the said Nathaniel Lewis for and in Consideration of the sum of Seven Pounds twelve Shillings in Money of his currency to me in hand paid before the Trumpeting and Delivery Hereby do grant sell and convey in the County before expressed whereas do For all my Right Title and Interest and my heirs and Assigns and my heirs and Assigns fully Covenanted and of many part and parcel provide thereof to Remand Right and Discharge the said Joseph Hall her ancestor Yeoman forever by these presents All that certain Parcel of Land Unused Occupied Conveyed and Confirm unto him Present to grant Margarett Hall above Express Confirm unto him said Joseph Hall to be his and a Right forever as the Certain Island lying in [illegible] containing about Fifty acres of Upland and about Forty five acres of Salt Marshland in Common by Name of Matunucky Island and bounded Northly upon a Salt Pond Westly upon John Boyden Southerly upon a Bay of Salt Water upon a Breach on Eastly Now bounded Matunucky Island and an Island Called Only Island
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To Have and to Hold, all that land as above Described with all the premises and appurtenances to the same Belonging or in anywise Appertaining unto him Stand Joseph Russell to the Heirs and Assigns forever to be His heirs and his heirs forever of half a piece and the said Nathaniel Lewis Doll for him his heirs and Assigns forever to be the heirs and Assigns to and with the said Joseph Russell his heirs and Assigns forever to be the Nathaniel Lewis heirs at and before the Presiding and Determining Sheriff of the town said Lawrence around of the same be begunned Sunday the twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five in the manor of Peace Justice Authority and Defenses and Discharges from are granted to have Mortgage in all acquired Premises of that Nature or Nature Tenure Furthermore the said Nathaniel Lewis doth hereby for my self my Heirs and Assigns Forever Remise and Convent and grant to possess and convey all and before the said and Bargained and grant unto the said Joseph Russell and to his heirs and Assigns forever from same and Done and Done any of the person or persons Whatever his Heirs came and Done any of the person or persons Whatever his Heirs Whereas I the said Nathaniel Lewis have here to set my hand and Seal this third Day of November one thousand and seven hundred and ninety five Bristol and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety five therein. Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of me Nath Holme Doned Holme Nath Leake [illegible] [illegible] May 18 1795 [illegible] certain appy opposite Nathaniel Lewis the rider to the written matter instrument and determine to the same in the the following Oct and Dec Seal. By order the Hon. Judge Robert The above and foregoing Deed was recorded June 3rd 1795 by G. S. Holme To all People to whom these presents come greet you in all manner Ways of Christianity in the County of Kings and City of Providence in Western of Rhode Island Greeting know ye that I the undersigned making you see in Corporation of some Land Greeting know ye that I the undersigned making you see in Lauvince month of February of Colony of Rhode Island visited to me and in my behalf Paying bond word and money paid by them in Govern of George in the Council Printed in the Colony of Rhode Island in the Council of Newport of the said Rhode Island and my only seventy fourth eighty eight hundred and forty five Thereof and our Part part and service Hereof the aforesaid’s’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

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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.