The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 526@74/812 › 834@59/262

8/1/1978 · RELEASE · book 59 page 262 doc 834@59/262

From SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES
To SMITH JOAN M life, SMITH SIDNEY T life
Index description 50/10 55/6

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 ▸

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

◀ 1978 · PREL · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 54
◀ 1978 · PREL · PROSSER RUFUS K EST; PROSSER FREDA B IND & EX → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 57
◀ 1978 · MORTGAGE · DUMOND JANET S; DUMOND RONALD E → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 62
◀ 1978 · PREL · PROSSER RUFUS K EST; PROSSER FREDA B IND & EX → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 58 p 76
◀ 1978 · PREL · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 58 p 78
◀ 1978 · MORTGAGE · FENELON LOUIS W; FENELON PAULINE E → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 58 p 117
◀ 1978 · PREL · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 183
◀ 1978 · PREL · PROSSER RUFUS K EST; PROSSER FREDA B IND & EX → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 58 p 222
◀ 1978 · PREL · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 547
◀ 1978 · PREL · PROSSER RUFUS K EST; PROSSER FREDA B IND & EX → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 59 p 571
◀ 1978 · PREL · PROSSER FREDA B,IND&EX; PROSSER RUFUS K EST → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 57 p 989
◀ 1978 · PREL · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 57 p 991
◀ 1978 · MORTGAGE · GWALTNEY JOANN M; GWALTNEY RONALD J → SACHEM PASSAGE ASSOCIATES · book 57 p 996

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

▶ 1984 · CERTIFICATE · SMITH JOAN M; SMITH SIDNEY T → · book 77 p 665
▶ 1984 · CERTIFICATE · SMITH JOAN M; SMITH SIDNEY T → · book 74 p 812
▶ 1984 · DEED · SMITH JOAN M; SMITH SIDNEY T → STADNICK BENJAMIN J; STADNICK DONNA M · book 74 p 814

The instrument's own words

No transcript yet for this instrument.

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 59 page 262).

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.