The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13494

1/1/1739 · DEED · book 1 page 5 doc 13494

From MORY SARAH life, MORY ROBERT life
To WILCOX JEFFERY life
Consideration two Hundred Pounds Current Money of ye Colony
Premises Five Hundred acres · 500 acres of land and a 50 acre tract (Charlestown, Kings County)

Back — where this land came from

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

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

Joseph Easton · Thomas · Alex. Moody · Caleb Foster

The instrument's own words

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My heirs Executors & Administrators Do Covenant & Engage the above named for ever that he & his heirs shall be free from his heirs Executors and administrators & Assigns against the bought & found of any right Title or Pretence whatever for cause after the purchase of the said And Above the rights of the sd Robert Knowles both for him & his successors after him up until the sd Robert Knowles his heirs & Assigns forever all the rights of Property of the sd [illegible] land & appurtenances for the said [illegible] [illegible] dated the 2nd day of March in the year of our Lord AD 1782 Signed Sealed & Delivered Robert Knowles Anne Knowles on behalf of Robert Knowles for Robert Knowles junior these premises Entered & [illegible] sixth Day of September 1782 Robert Knowles appeared before me this first day of September 1782 and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed and said that it had been delivered before me Sam Derby Justice To all people to whom these presents Shall Come Greeting know Ye That I / Sebastian Kingon of Charlestown in Kings County in gd Colony of Rhode Island ye Governor and by consideration of the Sum of two Hundred Pounds Current Money of gl Colony after To me in hand before the Expiring term of well and truly paid by George Kingon of said County and gl Colony after a Husbandman the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge witness and my self solely therefore fully Satisfied and Contented and therefore of my own Free act and purest thought do Execute Tequit and discharge me & George Kingon & his heirs executors & Assigns for him for his wife and heirs There upon give grant bargain Conveyed and Confirmed by this ye present deed for solely fully and Absolutely Give grant Bargain Sale Five Hundred acres of land in the said County and Confirm the said George Kingon his heirs forever for Ever One Messuage or Tract of Land situate lying and being in gd town [illegible] a few Containing by Estimation fifty Acres be the same more or less called and known as us following Southerly partly by Land of Joseph Easton partly and Land of Thomas Westarly partly by Land of sd Joseph Easton and partly by Land of Alex[illegible] boundly partly by Land of the sd Sebastian Kingon Easterly by Land of Albe[illegible] to House and Holds & G[illegible] and Bargains Premises with all & Creatures Privileges and Con tenements to gd same belonging or in any way Appertaining to him George Kingon forever for Ever Chad to his hand their proper office his heirs and Assigns the rightful and full and Ever Chad I the sd Sebastian Kingon for me my heirs Executors Administrators doe Covenant promise and Grant to and with sd George Kingon his heirs and Assigns that the Ensealing hereof of I am the true sole and lawful owner of the above premises and am Lawfully Seised and possessed of the same in all rights

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.