The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4426

5/22/1875 · DEED · book 10 page 157 doc 4426

From MCINNES HUGH life, MCINNES LYDIA M life
To ROONEY JOHN life
Consideration one dollar
Premises one and a quarter perches · tract of land with buildings (Carolina Mills, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

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

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1867 · DEED · MCINNES DUNCAN; MCINNES AGNES B → MCINNES HUGH · book 9 p 206
◀ 1871 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CROSS WM D → MCINNES HUGH; MCINNES LYDIA M · book 9 p 202
◀ 1867 · DEED · CROSS WILLIAM D → MCINNES HUGH · book 9 p 200

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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each year in advance to said Council and at the at the expiration of said term of four years (4yr) on the 25th day of March 1880 to yield up and surrender peaceful quiet possession of said premises. In witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date first above written interlined before signing Joshua H. Noca L.S. per presence of Daniel Sheater L.S. G. P. Knapp William H. Carpenter L.S. George W. Cross Joseph Stanton L.S. Charles Cross Joseph G. Church L.S. Received for record March 26th 1875 at 11 oclock A. M. and recorded by Charles Cross Town Clerk Know all men by these presents that I Noah H. Hughes of Richmond in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island for and for consideration of the sum of one dollar to me paid by John Rooney of Danbury in the county of fairfield in the state of Connecticut witnessed whereof I do hereby act and beverage have remised released and forever quitclaimed and by these presents do remise release and forever quite claim unto the said John Rooney his heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest property plainland and parcel of land which I now have for right ought to have or claim in and to a certain tract parcel of land situated in the village of Carolina Mills in the town of Charlestown county of Washington & State of Rhode Island containing by estimation one and a quarter perches let the quantity above or less with all the buildings thereon standing bounded Northerly and easterly by land of Edward Mc Inney Southerly by land of [illegible] L. G. Gove and Dodge W. Mc Inney and westerly by the highway leading from said Carolina Mills to [illegible] supply or probate otherwise bounded I have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and appurten nances thereof or thereunto appertaining to the said John Rooney his heirs and assigns forever In and I
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158 The aforesaid Hugh McInnes for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators do covenant with the said John Rooney his heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to the said John Rooney his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful rights and demands of all persons claiming by through or under me do hereby grant me And I Sybilia M McInnes wife of the aforesaid Hugh McInnes for the consideration paid as aforesaid to hereby as lease and land grant to the said John Rooney his heirs and assigns forever all my right of dower in and to the above described premises In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty first day of Jany in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy six Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Hugh McInnes Ls Charles Lomax Sybilia M McInnes Ls Echandler H. Campbell State of Rhode Island etc Washington Sc In Charlestown this twenty first day of Jany A.D. 1876 then Hugh McInnes personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within Instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed Charles Lomax Justice of the Peace Received for record May 22 1876 at 8 oclock P.M. and recorded by Charles Lomax Town 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.