The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13431

12/8/1767 · DEED · book 2 page 349 doc 13431

From NINEGRETT THOMAS
To WORDING JEREMIAH life
Consideration Twelve pounds Three Shillings Lawfull Money
Premises Three Acres and One half rood · Three acres tench land (Newport)

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
◀ 1766 · SECURITY BOND · CHAMPLIN CHRISTOPHER → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 256
◀ 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

▶ 1772 · DEED · WORDING JEREMIAH; WORDING ABIGAIL → WORDEN BENJAMIN · book 3 p 73
▶ 1791 · DEED · WORDING JEREMIAH → BLIVEN SAMUEL · book 4 p 27
▶ 1801 · DEED · WORDING JEREMIAH; WORDING ABIGIAL → WORDING SAMUEL · book 4 p 322

Bounded by

Robert Custenx · Austins · Pretty · Joseph Ranton

The instrument's own words

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349 To All People whom this Indenture witnesseth That s.t. [illegible] come in I Thomas Kincaid of East Greenwich in the County of Kings and Province of Rhode Island and [illegible] witnesseth KNOW ye that I s Thomas Kincaid for and in consideration of the sum of Twelve Shillings of lawful Money to him in hand paid by [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] in the County of [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to him [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] there do remise release and forever quit claim the said Premises holding the said Premises to them their heirs and assigns forever Have given grants Conveyed sold aliened assigned [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] for ever [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on the [illegible] 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(350) Furthermore the said dirman [illegible] all and singular my house lot & lands to Tenents and mortgage have Given Donated and confirmed to him named Jeremiah [illegible] for him his Heirs & Assigns any all Claims or Demands or any Tenures or Possessions whatsoever for ever Warrant Some and To Done by these Articles in witness whereof the said Thomas Knegritt have hereunto to my hand and official witnessed the same with Day of April A.D 1707 and in the seventh year of His Majs Reign George the Third Kind Peace & Good Will Signed Sealed & Delivered in the Presence of Desire [illegible] John Englen Thomas Knegritt Dated Town Kings County sc Personally appeared before the undersigned Thomas Knegritt and acknowledged that the Same and within Instrument is His own Last and Deed Signed and Sealed hereunto and offered for the Presence [illegible] the Justice This Deed was recorded the 8 Day of December 1717 To all Christian men to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting I Thomas [illegible] son of Stephen Stanton of Charlestown Kings County & State of Rhode Island and Providence for Liberties and free and Independent state merchants Owners and operators Capacity for the One Natural Person whom I have and Foregoing my house lot Marlborough Stanton and Henry Stanton have by Divers Deeds Given Granted and Posted Conveyed & Confirmed to my Heirs Residents Freely fully and Absolutely given granted and conveyed And Enjoin unto my sons Marlborough Stanton and Henry Stanton and their Heirs & Assigns forever my I spare Three Acres Tench Land located lying and running in the Town of Newport house the one Tract containing by Estimation Roughly Three Acres and One half rood By the same moreover North Boundary to Tolliver & Viz East or South running on the Land Game lying on Stephen Stanton & Boundary on the Easterly side from thence running South East by a spring of water from the same Course South East by a great old field and from thence bounding South on the South hand Running Westerly by a fence until it comes to a stone at the mouth of a Brook to a Rock marked with two Letters ES with a Rake standing By said Rock

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.