The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13829

6/2/1755 · DEED · book 1 page 342 doc 13829

From NINIGRETT GEORGE life
To STANTON JOSEPH life, FRY JOHN life, WANTON GEORGE life
Consideration Extraordinary Labour Service and Expenses Done and Expended for me ye Ninigrett at Sundry Time By Joseph Stanton ... and
Premises [illegible] · Tract of land bounded by Pauncutt River and lands of Walter Clark and Philip Gibson (Charlestown, Pauncutt River)

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 grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1758 · DEED · FRY JOHN; WANTON GEORGE → STANTON JOS · book 1 p 403
▶ 1760 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; FRY JOHN → WANTON GEORGE · book 2 p 30
▶ 1760 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; STANTON MARY → YORKE EDWARD · book 1 p 435
▶ 1760 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; STANTON MARY → GORTON JOHN · book 1 p 453
▶ 1761 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH → STANTON DANIEL · book 2 p 76
▶ 1764 · MORTGAGE · STANTON JOSEPH → ROGERS SAMUEL · book 2 p 152
▶ 1764 · MORTGAGE · STANTON JOSEPH → WICKHAM CHARLES · book 2 p 170
▶ 1764 · MORTGAGE · STANTON JOSEPH → WICKHAM CHARLES · book 2 p 172
▶ 1765 · CERTIFICATE · STANTON JOSEPH → HALLS WILLIAM · book 2 p 244
▶ 1766 · CERTIFICATE · STANTON JOSEPH → WICKHAM CHARLES · book 2 p 243
▶ 1766 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 2 p 258
▶ 1766 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH → STANTON JOSEPH JR · book 2 p 259
▶ 1766 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH → STANTON JOS JR · book 2 p 260
▶ 1767 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; STANTON MARY → BABCOCK GEORGE · book 2 p 288
▶ 1767 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH; STANTON MARY → MATHEWS SIMEON · book 2 p 338
▶ 1767 · DEED · STANTON JOSEPH → STANTON HENRY; STANTON MALBROUGH · book 2 p 350

Bounded by

Nathal · John Kingyo

The instrument's own words

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To all Christian People To wit John Shot & Isaac Shot their Cause Greeting In the Province of St. Jago George Wingfield Governor in Chief known in King's County [illegible] Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations god full Country in New England and in Consideration of the sum of Ordinary Labour Service and Profits Done and Repaid and performed of me Wingfield at Sunday Some Time in Joseph Stanton of South Kingstown in King's County in Colony of Rhode Island [illegible] German and George Stanton Notary public in King's County of Rhode Island in Colony of Providence Plantations and to John Terry of East Greenwich in King's County of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island German for which I do hereby covenant and agree and will forever with all my heirs’s fully said party Contented and say have Given Granted Bargained and Set Other Conveyed and confirmed and by This Present Deed have Given Granted Bargained and alienated Conveyed and Confirmed unto the above named Joseph Stanton Conveyed and Confirmed unto their heirs Lawful heirs Design George Stanton and John Terry their heirs Lawful heirs Assign a Certain Tract or Parcell of Land Situate Lying & being in the Town of Charlestown above named Containing By measurement [illegible] [illegible] of some more or less Bounded as follows Viz Beginning at a white oak tree marked on the Standing by Pauncutt River which is the North East Corner of the that Walter Clark heirs of the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Beginning East 40 1/2 perches to the North West corner of the line Running East 40 1/2 perches from February’s to the South West corner until it Comes to the Line of Lydia [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] which of which it runs Then Running North East for some [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Bounded with Land until it Comes to the North East corner of the Boundaries To the South by D. Conyer Land until it reaches the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] on until it Comes to the South East corner of the heirs of Philip Gibson whose title to the Grand’s [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] from the North East [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and until it runs to Pauncutt River There Finishing the same as it is mentioned Corner There North or Said named by Walter Clark the Edward [illegible] [illegible] George [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] All In All Added together [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] To have and to hold yield granted and bargain [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] conveyed to them Joseph Stanton George Stanton and John Terry their heirs and assigns forever to them and their heirs only and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] for as the said George Wingfield [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and signs to witness and agree to and with said Joseph Stanton George Stanton and John Terry their heirs assigns upon the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] hereof fromy Time and Law full owner of said above Bargain and Promise
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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.