The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 13877

1/29/1759 · DEED · book 1 page 418 doc 13877

From NINEGREAT THOMAS life
To KINYON ENOCH JR
Consideration 10 ye’s of ye’s’ Woodread found in money of New England
Premises four hundred acres · tract of land in East Greenwich bounded by Christopher Champney (East Greenwich)

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

▶ 1759 · DEED · KINYON LEWCEY; KINYON ENOCH JR → STANTON SAMUEL · book 1 p 420
▶ 1760 · DEED · KINYON ANN; KINYON ENOCH → CRANDALL AHIJAH · book 1 p 447
▶ 1760 · DEED · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → NINEGRETT THOMAS · book 2 p 20
▶ 1766 · DEED · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → POTTER WILLIAM · book 2 p 261
▶ 1767 · MORTGAGE · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → GARDNER SYLVESTER · book 2 p 302
▶ 1767 · MORTGAGE · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → POTTER ROBERT · book 2 p 356
▶ 1768 · MORTGAGE · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → GARDNER SILVESTER · book 2 p 377
▶ 1771 · MORTGAGE · KINYON LUCY; KINYON ENOCH JR → ROBINSON SYLVESTER · book 3 p 71

Bounded by

Christopher Champline

The instrument's own words

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No 118 Know All Men by these presents that shall come and Greeting I Thomas Hennessey of East Greenwich in the county of Kent in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Gentleman and Yeoman of the said town and county Snducan Send Greeting Whereas I the said Thomas Hennessey for and in consideration of the loving affection of my said son and heir James Hennessey of said town and county the moving of heretofor settled and truly paid by the said James upon the said town and colony the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and by these presents do give with full power lawfully settled and confirmed and paid thirty and ninety four pounds three shillings to the Countie at hand Dated the 4th day of May 1791 that my son James and me demand to be conveyed by these presents from the said Grant to be invested and deemed to be forever possessed and confirmed by these present Documents forly and absolutely grant and bargain grant all that certain stillage in part of a farm write him of the said town only his heirs and assigns forevermore one hundred or tract of land situate and lying and being described in the town aforesaid in county and colony containing four hundred acres of land bounded as bounded on the northeast (187) boundaries of the land belonging to the Christopher Champney resident of the said town among the said North boundary on the Eastern land and words by partly on the Eastern land and partly on the West boundary Christopher Champney and to be and said to be for the West side whole south side one long distance extending to the said to be Gather with all appurtenances what so ever water water water water there unto belonging and after clearing All that piece of land lying and bounded and bargained promised all appurtenances thereunto belonging and being situated in the town of East Greenwich in any part of all appurtenances thereunto belonging and being situated in the town of East Greenwich in any appertaining to him and to his heirs and assigns forevermore and to the said James and their heirs only forever the aforesaid Release of forever and said Thomas Hennessey of the said town his heirs and assigns forevermore and the Covenant promise and grant that he and his heirs shall forever warrant to him his heirs and assigns that the said land before in writing described stone and stone and Lawful house of stone Bargained and promised and my aforesaid father and stepped and stepped of the same certain right height full house the said first and a stable bottle in full power in fee simple and in true and law full right heretofor full power and law full’ly grant to the said Grant the said County of Kent in the colony said bargained and appurtenances in the said farm and of the said farm his heirs law and assigns shall and being forever from home from all times forever foreclosed by force and violence and by virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably and dutifully have and hold the same forever and and deemed and bargained and promised to the said James and his heirs car and street and clearly executed Conveyance and secured the from all and all claims of heirs of the said Grant and bargained leave her page white a little space leave for the said James and his heirs or successors of the said name or heirs full his heirs measure or Survey or better or further the said present (witness) here the same witness for the said James and his heirs forever and the Covenant promise and guarantee to him his heirs reach them on his heirs and assigns by and for the said Conveyance Demand and any forty fourteen the said James to be warrant forced and signed by me the present in witness whereof I have set my hand
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Set my hand and Seal this 15th day of September ano m 784 Year of his Majesty his Greatness George 3rd & King of Great Britain &c 1784 Signed Sealed and Delivered In presence of Kath[erine] [illegible] Benj[amin] Hoxsie Thomas Attorney Great Seal Kings Council [illegible] She a break [illegible] was Recorded 29 day of Novr [illegible] by Honble [illegible] Personally appeared Subscriber Thomas Attorney Great Seal [illegible] Dark above written & acknowledged the above Instrument to be his act and deed before me [illegible] Deloy [illegible] Justice of Peace Know all men by these presents that I John Congdon of the King's Town in Kings County and Colony of Rhode Island and companion one of the Executors of [illegible] and said Wide and Testament of Sarah [illegible] late of the Colony of New York departed and Copie witness of the same the thousand and more provided in my hand hereby by a recitals mean called by way of means of Samuel Stanton of St Charles town King's County a free person Lawfully Transported brought whereas Delivery and [illegible] and said Samuel Stanton had have bargained and sold have bargained and sold the said man that said had’s and’s and promised to Transport him to the town of [illegible] and said Stanton one hundred and twenty four [illegible] and Deliver unto some [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 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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.