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12/6/1855 · DEED · book 8 page 127 doc 10765

From BABCOCK JESSE life, BABCOCK SALLY J life
To KNOWLES ROBERT life
Premises approximately five acres more or less · lot of land bounded by Charlestown Road, Bunce Road, and lands of Tucker, Young, and Fenison (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1827 · DEED · PERRY HOXSIE ADMINISTRATOR; WORDEN SAMUEL ESTATE OF → BABCOCK JESSE JR · book 6 p 147
◀ 1823 · DEED · BABCOCK GEORGE; BABCOCK NANCY → BABCOCK JESSE · book 6 p 32
◀ 1802 · DEED · GREEN REUBEN; GREEN MARTHA → BABCOCK JESSE · book 4 p 358

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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Two hundred sixteen hundred three say notes amounting to $ 15,500 and said notes dated March 3d 1855 with interest from date then This Deed is to null and void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue In Witness whereof of these presents set my hand and seal This Deed dated this day of March 3d 1855 at Charlestown aforesaid Signed sealed and delivered in presence of John W Money LS And I Hannah M Money wife of the aforesaid aforesaid Robert W Money for the consideration aforesaid paid my said Husband to hereby relinquish my right of Tenure and title to the premises above conveyed by said Money In Witness whereof and seal of Charlestown aforesaid this date the third day of March 1855 Witness Josiah Thatcher Joseph H Griffin Hannah M Money LS State of Rhode Island County of Washington (Certificate of Witnessing) At Charlestown the 7th day of April 1855 Personally appeared the said Robert W Money and Hannah his wife then personally affirmed the said Robert W Money and Hannah his wife then personally affirmed the foregoing to be their voluntary act and deed Joseph H Griffin Justice of the Peace Recorded Dec 28 1857 by Chas Lewis C Clerk Know all men by these presents that I Jesse Babcock wife of Huntington County of Washington State of Rhode Island by and in consideration of the sum of ten hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Robert H Newton of Charlestown County & State aforesaid the receipt of which I do hereby acknowledge & myself therefore well and sufficiently paid He hereby gives grant sell and convey unto the said Robert Newton his Heirs executors Administrator and assigns forever a certain lot of land situated in Charlestown County & State aforesaid containing by determination approximately five acres more or less bounded as follows viz commencing on the north with land of Jonathan Tucker bounds on the north heading from Charlestown Road slightly Southeastly on said road then South to the line of Caleb Young land then thereon on the Bunce Road lanes thence westerly on an old wall to the west line then thence westerly to a white oak tree with stones heaped about it thence westerly to a oak tree with stones heaped about it which is the corner bounds between Caleb Young and Mercy Fenison lands thence westerly and northerly on said Youngs land to boundary of Jordan's land then thence marked by Hypocrites boundary stone of said then thence easterly on Nathaniel Tucker south line to the first mentioned bounds on the Charlestown Road To have and to hold said Bargained Premises with all the privileges appurtenances thereunto belonging unto me and my heirs forever and thus the said Robert Newton his Heirs assigns forever to this and there only save himself and his heirs and assigns forever and the said these Premises for myself my Heirs and Assigns do covenant to agree with the said Robert Newton his Heirs and Assigns
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128 that I am the true sole and lawful owner of the above described premises and that I have good right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same manner so aforesaid and expect that will warrant service and defend the same said Robert Price his heirs assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons whomsoever and I said Sably Babcock wife of the said Jesse Babcock for and in consideration of the before mentioned sum of ten dollars paid to me my said husband hereby sell and convey with the said premises all my right of dower and home of me and mine in and unto the said premises forever. And I Jesse and Sably the said Jesse and Sably Babcock have executed our our seal and signature to these presents at Richmonds opposite this eight day of Dec one thousand eight hundred and fifty five Executed in presence of Will Holmes Jesse Babcock L.S. Sably J Babcock L.S. Washington s. South Kingstown June 13th AD 1856 Jesse Babcock and Sably J Babcock his wife acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their voluntary act and deed hands and seal Before me Samuel P Thorne Public Notary Witnessed for Record Dec 6th 1855 Recorded Dec 6th 1855 By Charles Coxe Town Clerk To all people to whom these presents shall come I Caleb Thorne of Providence in the County of Providence & State of Rhode Island sc Send Greetings Know ye that I the said Caleb Thorne I show for and in consideration of the sums of ten dollars referred to in my hand written the engraving hereof and else considering paid by Mary Anne wife of George Thorne of Richmonds in the County of Washingtons said aforesaid conveniently whereas I so hereby acknowledge and I am therefore fully satisfied contented and paid for the same of every part and parcel thereof having discharged all expenses and discharges her the said Mary Anne Thorne her Heirs Executors Administrators Assigns forever by these presents grant bargain sell convey and confirm by all acts conveyed and confirmed by all means possible joindly fully and unconditionally generally pure formally selling all sums entries convey and confirm unto the said Mary Anne Thorne her Heirs and Assigns forever one piece or lot of Land situated in Richmonds containing more or less about one hundred and eighty acres be the same more or less bounded on the North by the land of some persons’s names unknown on the South by the land of Caleb Thorne and others on the East by the land of Michael W Phillips wife the first lot Valley road and others on the West by the land of George Thorne and others land and house as further set forth in a certain indentur written to Catherine B Thorne land and house bounded on the North by said Johnson land until it comes to Catherine B Thorne’s highway then North to the North by the said Highway to the West side of the a brook and from thence a line bearing South 28 East about 40 chains and 10 poles to Jones Miller’s line first mentioned for more particular description of the premises reference is had to the Deed of Elizabeth Potter to Mary Ann Thorne recorded in Richmonds Book D Page 49 with a Dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing with a Highway passing through the same — And one other tract of land situated in the town of Charles town in the County of Washington with a Dwelling house Barn and

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 127).

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.