The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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5/15/1744 · DEED · book 1 page 122 doc 13617

From KNOWLES ROBART life, KNOWLES ANNE life
To KINYON ELISHA
Consideration two hundred and fifty pounds Current Money of New England
Premises [illegible] · Plot or lot land adjacent to Fellowship's property (South Kingstown, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

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

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

▶ 1744 · DEED · KINYON ELISHA; KINYON THOMAS → KINYON DANIEL · book 1 p 123
▶ 1783 · LEASE · KINYON ELISHA → KINYON DANIEL; KINYON MARTHA · book 3 p 348
▶ 1783 · DEED · KINYON ELISHA; KINYON DANIEL → KINYON AMOS · book 3 p 357
▶ 1784 · DEED · KINYON ELISHA → KINYON NATHAN · book 3 p 395

Bounded by

Fellowell · Gideon Josselin · Gabriel Horrie · Gideon Horrie · Lot Trippes · Thomas Kinyon · Thomas Kinyon

The instrument's own words

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772 It all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting be it known that Robert Knowles of South Kingstown in the County of Kent County in the Colony of Rhode Island appears on this Indenture of my part of here had and suffered privately several Tenancy of knowing and those of me added party to be’t Robert Knowles of South Kingstown in the County of Kent said and to me of my sole habitation and [illegible] have given Grant Bargain and Sale in fee simple in land of [illegible] in the aforementioned town as a description way will be it is to convey the same Plot or lot land added to Fellowship’s property as adjacent Way it is to be [illegible] on the North by [illegible] on the East by [illegible] and on the West by [illegible] and on the South by [illegible] on agreed and [illegible] Board and [illegible] upon the Lot and Plot by honor Knowles’s Land and property Upon Honor Knowles’s land and it shall be forever to him his heirs and assigns that I Robert Knowles do covenant to have and to hold all above described land and [illegible] appurtenances there unto belonging or any other ways appertaining unto the same [illegible] Robert Knowles have [illegible] and as a full and for the to be the things’s rights use and benefit And it is agreed that Robert Knowles paying for the said land [illegible] and [illegible] And agree to act with a sum of [illegible] Robert Knowles that at any time of the term of said bargain and sale full and [illegible] and [illegible] and conveying of the said property it is true and [illegible] the owner of the right and [illegible] and [illegible] Rightfully had and [illegible] to the one [illegible] as a [illegible] and [illegible] Estate of his habitation in [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] for the said [illegible] and [illegible] in witness whereof the parties concerned and [illegible] have set their hands and seals a board [illegible] hand [illegible] and agree to warrant and Defend to for ever the said [illegible] against any and every person for his Parcels Deeds and or assigns for the same to [illegible] and [illegible] Claims Demands and of every Person or [illegible] of the said [illegible] and [illegible] and of the said Robert Knowles in all manner of Administrators and a [illegible] by virtue of the said Plot and [illegible] and Duly [illegible] and to the above [illegible] To wit all and all the [illegible] by these witness that I [illegible] have set my hand and seal the this 11th day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty four and of the hundredth year of this my Majesty George [illegible] [illegible] of Great Britain [illegible] Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of the above [illegible] Benj. Comins John Congdon Perry [illegible] Robert Knowles (seal) [illegible] [illegible] The above Deed recorded this 18th 1810 Page one 874 By Wm Clark town clerk Charlestown County Court June 1st 5th 1849 officially approved Robert Knowles the above [illegible] and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed signed and sealed before Wm Clark Justice Peace

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.