The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13676

1/16/1745 · DEED · book 1 page 179 doc 13676

From NINIGRETT GEORGE life, STANTON JOSEPH TRUSTEE life, WANTON GEORGE TRUSTEE life, FRY JOHN TRUSTEE life
To WORDIN JEREMIAH life
Consideration Eighty four pounds
Premises [illegible] (Charlestown, Kent County, Narragansett)
Also on this page: RELEASE MARSHALL ASA B EST

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 ▸

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.

The instrument's own words

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So as Christian Sayre, Esq. to whom the said [illegible] shall pay, the full Sum of [illegible] bound up by a Bond of George [illegible] inhabitant of Charlestown in Kent County in the Province of Rhode Island, Jacob [illegible] of [illegible] and [illegible] in Narragansett, dated the [illegible] day of [illegible] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and [illegible] and [illegible] in the said Bond it is stated that the said [illegible] and [illegible] are bound unto the said Christian Sayre in the sum of [illegible] to be paid on the [illegible] day of [illegible] next ensuing [illegible] and [illegible] the said Bond is [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and [illegible] and 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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.