The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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1/19/1853 · DEED · book 7 page 491 doc 10613

From BABCOCK MARY life
To CARD JOSHUA P life
Premises twenty acres · undivided right half part of a lot called shelter (Charlestown, Old Cove lane, North Cove lane, Dunning grove)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

◀ 1833 · DEED · WILCOX ABIGAIL; WILCOX EDWARD → BABCOCK POLLY; GARDNER SAMUEL; BABCOCK ROWLAND; BABCOCK MARY ANN; GARD · book 6 p 277
◀ 1827 · DEED · BROWNING JOSHUA; BROWNING MARGARET → PERRY SARAH; PERRY ANN; PERRY SIMEON; PERRY SAMUEL; BABCOCK MARY; PERR · book 6 p 167

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

▶ 1858 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → KENYON WILLIAM · book 8 p 212
▶ 1859 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → HOLDEN CHARLES · book 8 p 260
▶ 1859 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → CARD JONATHAN H · book 8 p 298
▶ 1860 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → DAVIS PRESERVED JR · book 8 p 307
▶ 1860 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → LEWIS JOSEPH H · book 8 p 310
▶ 1861 · DEED · CARD JOSHUA P → CARD JONATHAN H · book 8 p 346

The instrument's own words

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491 To have and to hold said remise and quitclaimes premises with all the appurtenances thereto belonging unto him the said Joshua P Case his heirs and assigns for ever In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 7th day of March 1838 Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Chan Bates Jr Sarah Perry Elizabeth Perry L.S Charles Perry L.S Ann Perry L.S Thomas Perry L.S Elizabeth Perry Jr L.S Simeon P Perry L.S Washington Co at Westerly July 7th 1838 Personally came Elizabeth Perry, Charles Perry, Ann Perry, Elizabeth Perry Jr and Simeon P Perry and acknowledge the foregoing deed to be their free and voluntary act Before me Thomas Perry Public Notary Washington Co at Westerly July 1838 Personally came Thomas Perry and acknowledge the foregoing deed to be his free and voluntary act Before me Nathan P Dixon Jr Justice of the Peace Recorded January 10th 1853 by Charles Cross Clrk Know all men by these presents That I Mary Babcock of Richmond in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island Do sell Grant and in Consideration of the sum of Five Dollars to me in hand paid by Joshua P Case of Charlestown in the aforesaid Coun ty and State to Lease and bargain sell and quitclaime unto the said Joshua P Case and his heirs and assigns forever one undivided right half part of a certain lot of land of oversize sevenumps now called shelter in said Charlestown containing by estimation twenty acres according to the same more or less and is bounded westerly on Old Cove lane batas ly partly on said cove bayly and easterly on the Right of Way or Old Road and easterly on said North Cove lane southerly on the Right of Way or Old Road and westerly on said Road and the Dunning grove or however otherwise the same may be bounded --- To have and to hold all the before granted and quitclaimed premises with all the said Joshua P Case his heirs and assigns the same belonging to him his heirs and assigns forever. And I the said Mary Babcock am lawfully seized in fee of the premises, and that they are clear of all incumbrances and that I have a good right to release and quit claime the same to the said Joshua P Case his heirs and assigns forever In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of April 1838 Signed and sealed in presence of Sysannah C Hurtbull Lewis Kenyon Mary X Babcock L.S her mark Washington Co Richmond April 8th 1838 Personally appeared Mary Babcock signe and seal of the within instrument at and acknowledged it to be her voluntary act deed hand and seal Recorded Jan 10th 1853 Before me Lewis Kenyon by Chas Cross T.C. Justice of C & Peace

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 7 page 491).

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.