1875 MISC book 10 p 170

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 ▸

unknown Mary Harris

“she being lawful owner of the said piece of land and she giving it to the said Ammons”

no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here

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

◀ 1864 · AGREEMENT · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; CROSS GEORGE W → CROSS GEORGE W; NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE · book 8 p 506

◀ 1854 · CERTIFICATE · NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE · book 8 p 68

◀ 1846 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 203

◀ 1845 · MORTGAGE · AUSTIN SUSAN → NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE; STANTON MOSES; STANTON ANN · book 7 p 189

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

▶ 1882 · DEED · AMMONS JOSEPH; AMMONS FANNY → HULL EMILY S · book 11 p 35

▶ 1883 · DEED · AMMONS JOSEPH → AMMONS JOSEPH; JACKSON HARRIET A; SIAS GIDEON JR · book 11 p 190

▶ 1883 · DEED · AMMONS JOSEPH → AMMONS GIDEON L · book 11 p 190

Bounded by

The instrument's own words

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170 Charlestown R.I. April 21st 1875. On Wednesday April 21st 1875. at a meeting of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians held at the Indian School house. It was voted by the Council and Members of the Tribe present that Joseph Ammons a member of the Tribe should have a certain strip of land said piece of land being in Charlestown R.I. and lying in the West side of the Indian cedar swamp known or called the Lewis land, and bounded and described as follows on the East by land of Mary Ann Thomas West by land of Albert Watson partly by the said Watson land West and southerly by land of Charles Benedict and Southerly by land of Lucetta Giddings heirs or however otherwise bounded said land is estimated to contain twenty acres more or less the said Joseph Ammons is to have the said piece of land to have and to hold the said Ammons his heirs and assigns now and forever. the said piece of land being given to the said Ammons to pay him the said Ammons for taking care of Mary Harris deceased she being lawful owner of the said piece of land and she giving it to the said Ammons to pay him for taking care of her for over twenty years. L. M. Hopkins Pres and Clerk Council Signed [illegible] William H. Hazard Place Loyman F. Perry for his Ebonial Wheat Sen. Received for record Oct 4th 1875 at 4 oclock P.M. and recorded by Charles Lovoss Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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.