Colonial Kings Towne, Rhode Island
A look at the early people and records of Kings Towne, Rhode Island (North and South Kingstown, Narragansett and Exeter).
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About the Author
George Loxton grew up in North Kingstown and East Greenwich, Rhode Island, with an interest in local history kindled by grandparents. During decades spent as a corporate attorney in Wisconsin, he examined the fire-damaged town records when back visiting his hometown. The analysis and reconstruction of those damaged records merged with numerous other sources led to this series as an aid to genealogists and historians.
Contents of the Series
Early People of Kings Towne
Early Records of Kings Towne
Early Records of Kings Towne
Volumes 1 through 6 (each containing more than 600 pages) provide biographical sketches for every name mentioned in the Kingstowne records before 1723 (vital records, land evidence, town meetings, town council, or probate), arranged alphabetically by surname. Every mention of every name in every context is included prior to 1723. This includes every time someone is mentioned as witnessing a deed, every time mentioned in probate records, every time mentioned in deed descriptions as being a neighboring landowner, and every person appearing before the town council. These Kingstowne details are often supplemented by other details well past 1723 (from Kingstowne records and records of other towns, colonial records, court records, or secondary genealogical and historical sources). The length of sketches depends upon the frequency a person appears in the records, but a typical sketch provides vital records, life events, property owned, probate, and children
Early Records of Kings Towne
Early Records of Kings Towne
Early Records of Kings Towne
Volumes 7 and 8 provide abstracted indexed reconstructions of town meeting, town council and probate records, meeting by meeting. Kingstowne was created in 1674 but the first town records begin in 1696. Volume 7 begins with a chronological documentary summary of Kingstowne before 1696, drawn from other sources. Volume 7 then presents the records covering the original four towns from (1696-1723), with volume 8 narrowing to records for North Kingstown and Exeter (1723-1756).
The Settling of Kings Towne
Early Records of Kings Towne
The Settling of Kings Towne
Volumes 9 to 11 (still being completed at this time) will address the “The Settling of Early Kings Towne,” providing abstracts of the Kingstowne deeds, arranged by individual tracts and lots on maps. By arranging the deeds by tract, the location can be identified (even when the description is “from the old maple stump to the heap of stones”) and burned details of names and descriptions can be reconstructed from other related deeds or wills.
Contents by Volume
The People of Early Kings Towne, volumes 1 through 6
Biographical sketches of people mentioned in the town records listed alphabetically by surname and serving as an index to the later volumes. Unidentifiable names are listed at end of volume 6.
Volume 1 People of Early Kings Towne (A to Ch)
Volume 2 People of Early Kings Towne (Cl to Gi)
Volume 3 People of Early Kings Towne (Go to Ke)
Volume 4 People of Early Kings Towne (Ki to P)
Volume 5 People of Early Kings Towne (Q to To)
Volume 6 People of Early Kings Towne (Tr to Z, Unidentified, and Non-European)
The Records of Early Kings Towne, volumes 7 and 8
Volume 7
Covering the current towns of North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Exeter and Narragansett
Part I: Records of Kings Towne Drawn from Other Sources Prior to 1696
Part II: Town Meeting Records 1696-1723 (from NKTC&P volume 1)
Part III: Town Council Records 1696-1723 (from NKTC&P volume 5 and part of 6)
Volume 8
North Kingstown Town Council and Probate Records, 1723-1756
Part I: 1723-1731 (from NKTC&P volume 6) covering the towns of N. Kingstown and Exeter
Part II: 1731-1742 (from NKTC&P volume 7) covering the towns of N. Kingstown and Exeter
Part III: 1742-1756 (from NKTC&P volume 8) covering the town of N. Kingstown
The Settling of Kings Towne, volumes 9 through 11 (in process)
Volume 9
The Pettaquamscutt Purchase in South Kingstown
(from North Kingstown Land Evidence volumes 1 to 5A (1723), and selected deeds beyond that). Being a tracing of the land titles for each lot in these tracts in Kingstowne.
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Volume 10
The Pettaquamscutt Purchase Tracts Outside of South Kingstown
The Thousand Acre Farms (mainly in Exeter)
The Great Plain Lots (mainly in North Kingstown)
The Purchases of Richard Smith
Coccumscussoc
Wickford
South to the Annaquatucket River
The Atherton Company Purchases
Quidnessett
Boston Neck
Boston Neck Surplus
The Vacant Land Purchases
Phenix and Hyams
Eldred, Cole, Phillips and Carr
Eldred, Gronut, Eldred and Congdon
Kingsley
Place, Tripp, Whitford and Northup
The Bly Purchase
(from North Kingstown Land Evidence volumes 1 to 10A (1751), and selected deeds beyond that). Being a tracing of the land titles for each lot in these tracts in North Kingstown.
Volume 11
The Vacant Land Purchases
The Huling Purchase
Brown, Fones, West, Baker and Jacquis
Reynolds, Reynolds, Reynolds and Bentley
Willcocks
The 7,000 Acre Tract
The Mumford Tract
Bates
Exeter North of Ten Rod Road
Other Exeter Lots
The Fones Purchase (North Kingstown, Exeter and East Greenwich)
The Great Purchase (Exeter and West Greenwich)
Miscellaneous Deeds From Outside of Kingstown Recorded at Kingstown
Stanton Purchase and Robinson Purchase (Westerly)
The New Purchase (West Greenwich)
Other
Deeds For Which a Location Has Not Been Identified
(from North Kingstown Land Evidence volumes 1 to 10A (1751), and selected deeds beyond that) Being a tracing of the land titles for each lot in these tracts in North Kingstown and Exeter, with miscellaneous other deeds..
Also By this Author
- Davisville, Rhode Island: A History of the Textile Mill Village Since the Arrival of Joshua Davis in 1694. Hardcover. 460 pages. every-name index
Davisville, Rhode Island
This book details the settling of Davisville, a village in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (and the namesake for the Davisville Seabee Base (Camp Endicott) at Quonset Point – although the details of that military base are not part of this book). Beginning in 1694, Joshua Davis established a fulling mill, gristmill, and forge settlement (Davis’s Mills). To this, descendants Ezra and Jeffrey Davis added an early carding mill (1810), leading to a full woolen mill (1824), the details of which are drawn from mill and store records that had been tucked away in a local attic. Arising from this, and a separate steam mill in 1889, a complete mill village developed (renamed Davisville), with this book providing details on the various people, activities, stores, library, village halls, cemeteries, church, schools, Grange hall, post office, railroad station, sawmills, and other business enterprises.
This book can be purchased for $20.00 at the Davisville Free Library (all proceeds going to the library) or from the author.
Contact Me
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George Loxton
7400 N. Range Line Road Glendale WI 53209
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