The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13391

12/19/1766 · MORTGAGE · book 2 page 286 doc 13391

From NINEGRETT THOMAS
To CROSS SAMUEL life
Consideration five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain
Premises none · Lot of land, Court of the Dyke, and parts of the Common field (North Kingstown)

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

◀ 1766 · SECURITY BOND · CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 256
◀ 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 grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1767 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS SAMUEL → HILL JOHN · book 2 p 340
▶ 1774 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS SAMUEL → CLARKE ELISHA · book 3 p 123
▶ 1778 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · CROSS SAMUEL; CRANDAL EBER → GARDINER EZEKIEL · book 3 p 260
▶ 1800 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → STANTON ROBERT · book 4 p 268
▶ 1800 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → BROWNING CHRISTOPHER · book 4 p 269
▶ 1800 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS SAMUEL → CHURCH ASA · book 4 p 271
▶ 1803 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 390
▶ 1803 · MORTGAGE · CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 394
▶ 1803 · DEED · CROSS ELIZABETH; CROSS SAMUEL → WILLCOX EDWARD · book 4 p 395
▶ 1825 · DEED · CLARKE RUTH; BROWNING CHRISTOPHER; TUCKER DORCAS; TUCKER SIMEON; TUCKE → CROSS JOHN · book 6 p 95

The instrument's own words

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Fol. 226 The Mortgage being so’d and cancelled still on the books of the office on estate of the Com. December 19 in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy four in the Town of North Kingstown come before me at said Town a certain Date between this time and the date of the Deed recorded in Book D page 234 namely Thomas Lynch of said Town Demandr. & S. and set forth as follows ( C ) to said County [Signature] Residence Court Clerk December the 9th 1775 Now therefore and Ever since have I now come here this day that witness within certain bound and acknowledged it Within Uttermost to be true my hands and seal Before Witness Cas Hutchinson cl. Dec. was recorded Fol. D paged 234 To all People to whom these Present Shall Come Greetings Thomas Lynch of the Town of North Kingstown in the County of Kings County of Rhode Island Ye said Thomas ye said Thomas of said Town and County Gentleman Know ye that I the said Thomas do by these Present give grant bargain and sell and confirm and convey to ( an ) before my witnesses offered and witness of said Town and County and to his heirs and assigns forever or their heirs and to every part and parcel recite houses the demesne called the Lot of land and Court of the Dyke part of the Common field and the Home Square of the Common field and the Common field and the Home Square of the Common field of the Common field and the Common field and the Common field and the Common field Conveyed and Confirmed and the same House and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the same Field and the 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Furthermore I the said Thomas Terry[?] app[roved] for Administratore to covenant and [?] to be his d[e]t[er]mined [?] the above claim and assigns in equity of lining [?] to be her d[e]t[er]mined or [?] [?]’s [?]’s [?] [?] as Deputy by Her Counter[?] [?] [?] and here presents on act of Concession that as above named Thomas Terry[?] here with or Demand or any of them shall choose to act will and [?] or [?] to be the above stated [?] [?] [?] on his here Epoch Appearing in oppose [?] a motion sum of Two Hundred pounds [?] [?] on or before 21st of May of the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty four [?] [?] [?] William [?] [?] and Mary [?] [?] & Olive & Sarah theron (claimed [?] [?] [?] and For aid of the True Effort but upon Default of payment can be [?] Force, and seize the [?] [?] of the same Instance hereunto set hand and seal this twentieth Day of July his [?] [?] your of his majesties Reign George the first of England by Appointm[en]t Stem. 18 1764 The Testimony [?] Sign Seal and Delivered in presence of Rob[ert] P[?]ton ( Gideon Harvey ) [?]’s [?] approved the subscribers [?] [?] by which aforesaid D some [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] Prob[ate] judge’s license [?] [?] [?] [?] T[?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] P[?] [?] [?] - By [?] [?] Harvey [?] Town [?]

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.