The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4415

2/15/1875 · DEED · book 10 page 141 doc 4415

From ROBINSON PRINCE life, GARDNER SARAH E life, GARDNER BENJAMIN B life, GARDNER ABRAM life, CASE MARY life, GARDNER DANIEL A life, GARDNER JOSEPH F B life, HOXSIE GORDON H COMMISSIONER life, NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, BROWN SARAH E life
To ?
Premises sixteen acres more or less · Part of Narragansett Indian reservation (Charlestown, Watanhaug Brook)

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 ▸
indian Council of the said Indian tribe
“it being that part of said tract set off to us by the Council of the said Indian tribe”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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. 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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141 Whereas, the General Assembly of the state of Rhode Island at the January Session AD 1875 authorized the heirs of Pounda Babcock to sell a certain tract of land in the Narragansett Indian reservation in the town of Charlestown. Know ye therefore all men by these presents that we Prince Robinson, Benjamin B Gardner Abram Gardner Mary Case Sarah E Brown Daniel Addison Joseph B Gardner and George H Gardner all heirs of said Pounda Babcock by the authority aforesaid and under the advice and direction of Gordon W Coone commissioner of the Narragansett tribe of Indians, and for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Dollars to be paid by George B Brudick of said Charlestown the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge to be fairly bargained sell and convey unto him and his heirs George B Brudick the his heirs and assigns forever all our right title and interest in and to said tract of land it being that part of said tract set off to us by the Council of the said Indian tribe and contains sixteen acres more or less bounded North by land of the said George B Brudick East by a highway South by land of Eliza Rankins West all off the Indian Council and West by Watanhaug Brook or however otherwise the said land may be bounded. To Have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto pertaining unto him the said George B Brudick his heirs and assigns forever In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 20th day of January AD 1875 Ssy presence of Charles Bode Charles Selden to the signatures of A. B. B. G. B. G. & G. B. Prince Robinson L.S. Benjamin B Gardner L.S. Abram Gardner L.S. his Mary Case L.S. mark Sarah E Brown L.S.
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142 Daniel A. Gardner Les Benjamin Marsh 2d Joseph P. B X Gardner Les as to 13 B Gardner his mark E. Stanhope to sign Sarah E. Gardner Les with 2 B B Jordan the Hoosey Corner Lo 2 Thomas W. Mcnall George Cross State of Rhode Island &c County of Washington &c By Charleston in said County on this 20 th day of January 1875 Before Witness one of the subscribers to the foregoing instrument personally appeared before me and acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary act and deed Charles Bone Justice of the peace Providence County Sc In Providence this twenty sixth day of January AD 1875—Then Morgan Gardner Mary Case Sarah B Bone and Sarah E Gardner personally appeared before me and expressly acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them signed to be their free and voluntary act and deed Witness my hand and Notarial seal the day and year last aforementioned Charles Selden Notary Public LS State of Rhode Island &c City and County of Newport Sc On this 27th day of January 1875 Benjamin B. Gardner personally appeared before me and acknow- ledged to be the foregoing instrument by him signed and sealed to be his voluntary act & deed Benjamin Marsh 2d LS Notary Public State of Rhode Island — Kent County Sc In East Greenwich this 29 th day of January 1875 Daniel Andrew Joseph P. B. Gardner personally appeared before me & acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them signed & sealed to be their free and voluntary act and deed Edward Stanhope Notary Public LS Received for record Dec 15 th 1875—at 10 oclock A.M. & Recorded Charles Bone Brown Clerk

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.