The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 4999

7/31/1886 · MISC · book 11 page 398 doc 4999

From RHODE ISLAND STATE OF life
To RHODE ISLAND STATE OF life
Consideration twelve dollars per year
Premises none · land bounded by Pasquitt Path and Narragansett Electric easement (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

Before this deed: the Narragansett reservation
The State of Rhode Island is the grantor because the Act of 1880 (detribalization) ended the tribe's title to its reserved tract — about 64 square miles carved out of Ninigret's cession of 28 March 1709 (State Records, Land Evidence 3, p. 273; Tucker, Historical Sketch of Charlestown, 1877, pp. 23–24) — the State paying $5,000 for the common lands, all but two acres, and selling them in lots in 1882–84. This deed is one of those sales. Behind it stands tribal land, not an individual's; the chain back from here is the tribe's, and the roll of 1880–84 (324 names) says who the tribe was. From Ninigret — every such instrument ▸

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.

Bounded by

James O. Kenyon

The instrument's own words

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398 State of Rhode Island &c Washington Ss In Westerly in said county, on this twenty seventh day of July AD 1880 the above named Sarah J. Johnson, Ruth H. Larkin and Asahel G. Larkin freely and voluntarily appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them signed to be their free and voluntary act and deed and I find there the above named Ruth H. Larkin and Asahel G. Larkin as also personally appeared before me, and being by me examined privately, did admit from her and said husband acknowledged the same instrument shown and explained to her by me, to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and declared to me that she did not wish to retract the same. Emroch W. Vara Notary Public Received for record July 30th 1880 at 12 o'clock M. and returned to George L. Converse Town Clerk State of Rhode Island &c In General Assembly January Session AD 1876 Resolution providing for repairing and painting of fences on land of the State in Charlestown (Read March 17 1876) Resolved That the Senator from the town of Charlestown for the time being, be appointed a committee with authority and power to cause the fences around the Royal Addition Daniel Ground and the Fort Neck lot as called, in the town of Charlestown, belonging to the State to be kept painted and in suitable repair; also to keep in repair the State's portion of the line wall and the water fence between the State's land and land of James O. Kenyon of said Charlestown; provided the expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of twelve dollars per length of fence of twelve chains, or so much more annually, and the sum of twelve dollars, or so much more as may be necessary; is hereby annually appropriated for the foregoing purpose, to be paid to the Senator from the town of Charlestown, for the time being out of any money unappropriated in the treasury upon the presentation of properly authenticated vouchers. True copy Attest Joshua M. Oddington Secretary of State L.S. Recorded July 31 1880 by George L. Converse Town Clerk
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388 BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15' East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly, bounded easterly by said Pasquitt Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric company line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running North W 83° 15' East about 300 feet to the center line of said easement, a distance of Three Hundred Seven and 4/10 (307.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of said easement; Easterly by the center line of said easement and, now and formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark. The Grantee, its successors and assigns, are hereby granted right-of-way, in common with others, for all purposes, 30 feet in width, from the premises hereby conveyed to the edge of the Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned. This conveyance is made subject to easement of The Narragansett Electric Company of record in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown. The herein described premises being more particularly described and shown on plat entitled "Preliminary Survey of Land of Charles R. Washington Plat #24, American Legion, estate, Charlestown, R.I., C. A. Bounds, Engrs., Scale 1" = 80' - 30" March 1956, inserted into this plat being filed in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown reference to said plat being hereby made and had for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed. I, Pauline Masson, wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in said aforementioned premises. WITNESS our hands this 24 day of May 1956. JOHN H. MASSON PAULINE MASSON STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington ) In South Kingstown on the 24th day of May, 1956, before me personally appeared John H. Masson and Pauline Masson to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. DAVID A. ARNOTT Notary Public Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:18 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk I, ROBERT DOWNEY and MARY ELIZABETH DOWNEY of Maryland for consideration paid, grant to DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOCIATION, a non-business corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) That certain tract or parcel of land, containing 38 acres, more or less, situate and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15' East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly, bounded easterly by said Pasquitt Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric company line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running North W 83° 15' East about 300 feet to the center line of said easement, a distance of Three Hundred Seven and 4/10 (307.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of said easement; Easterly by said Pasquitt Path; westerly by land, now and formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark.

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.