The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 9833

12/2/1844 · DEED · book 7 page 172 doc 9833

From NARRAGANSETT INDIAN TRIBE life, CONGDON MATILDA life
To STANTON HANNAH life
Consideration two hundred Dollars
Premises none · one hundred and eighty feet high; part on the side Matilda Congdon (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED BROWNING STEPHEN JR

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 ▸

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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172 Whereas the General Attorney of the State of Rhode Island at this January Session 1814 d Authorize Matilda Congdon some Member of the Narragansett Tribe of Indians to act under the advice and direction of John Santon Esqr of Charlestown act convey Pieces of land to Samuel Santon for certain sums of money furnished formerly on land of Samuel Santon one hundred and eighty feet high; part on the side Matilda Congdon and bottoming Now know all men by these presents That Matilda Congdon aforesaid by the Authority aforesaid and by deed with the Advice land consent of Said John Santon Esqr title by her signature hereunto affixed stamped in Consideration of the sum of hundred Dollars paid to me by Samuel Santon of Charlestown R.I. I the signr of these presents do hereby grant and convey unto said Samuel Santon and his heirs all my right title and Interest in and to the premises above described with all appurtenances thereunto Belonging To have and hold the said land to Samuel Santon and his heirs forever In Testimony whereof we have here affixed our hands and seals this 23rd day of May in the year 1814 Witness to the Signature of Matilda Congdon Samuel Santon Joseph W. Huffman Witness to the Signature of John Santon Ephraim Santon Joseph W. Huffman Washington st Rhode Island May 23rd 1814 Personally came before me Matilda Congdon above named and solemnly signed the preceding instrument to be her free and voluntary act Joseph W. Huffman Justice of the Peace Washington st Rhode Island May 25th 1814 Personally came before me John Santon within named and acknowledged the within and preceding instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act Justice of the Peace By John Santon & file Know all men by these presents that these Stephen Browning of Charlestown in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island for and in Consideration of the love and good will which I bear to my son the heir Browning of the town of South Kingstown county New South Wales as well as for the Consideration of the sum certain paid to me for full satisfaction of my love for Stephen Browning to the amount which he wishes to acquire equity in my love grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Stephen Browning to be his heel and heirs forever the following real pieces of land lying in the town of Charlestown R.I. the first piece being the east half of one horseshoe farm bounded on the North by land of Samuel Santon the South by the R.I. 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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.