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9/23/1861 · DEED · book 8 page 384 doc 11053

From LARKIN REUBEN life, BABCOCK EDMOND S SHERIFF life
To LEWIS NATHANIEL life
Premises pure acres · Lot 1, dwelling house and buildings, John Pike plot (Smithfield, Providence County)

Back — where this land came from

execution Sherlock Simkins
“brought over all the right title and interest of the said Sherlock Simkins”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1847 · DEED · CROP MARY ANN ADMINISTRATOR; CROP JOHN ESTATE → LARKIN REUBEN · book 7 p 263

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

▶ 1872 · MORTGAGE · LEWIS HANNAH B; LEWIS NATHANIEL → LEWIS EDWIN R · book 10 p 55
▶ 1873 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · LEWIS NATHANIEL → WATSON CYRUS · book 9 p 406

The instrument's own words

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384 To all people or others whom these presents shall come to Command R Babcock of Smithfield County of Providence in our state of Rhode Island selaku Deputy of the Sheriff of said county greetng Whereas Edmund Agnew against Sherlock Simkins of the state of Rhode Island was by me the said Command R Babcock on two summonses (17) day of December one Providence eight hundred and sixty (1860) brought over all the right title and interest of the said Sherlock Simkins both the said or a certain tract of land situated in Smithfield said county of Providence within the a dwelling house and other buildings standing thereon relating as belonging by estimation pure acres of the said acreage as follows aforesaid Lot 1 Southwesterly on land known as the lot of the late on the North by the lot of however formerly owned by Edmonds C Babcock and Lot 1 in favor of Simkins on the North or however otherwise the same way be bounded it is like what is commonly known as the John Pike plot also surveyed by Augustus Davis surveyor and dated on the fifteenth (15) day of March on thousand said instrument dated 1860) all the right title interest and property of the said Sherlock Simkins Sherlock Simkins in preference to the said Command R Babcock on the said the petition for the satisfaction of the sum conveyed to Nathaniel Davis who on the highest Babcock for the sum of they sum conveyed (85) which the said Nathaniel Davis have both some will and fully paid fully paid me the said Command R Babcock from known ye that by piece and virtue of the office of the said sum are made unfounded and certified at the said Command Babcock in consideration of the sum of Seven pounds ten cents as appeared as by these presents bargaining selling assigning and conveying unto the said Nathaniel Davis his heirs and assigns forever all the right title full interest property freehold and inheritance of the some of the said Simkins Babcock of the lot as to the said premises and appurtenances of the some of the long term Nathaniel To have and to hold the said premises and appurtenances to the said Nathaniel Davis his heirs and assigns forever as In witness of the same I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of April 1861 By C. R. Babcock L.S. By Sheriff John L. Perry Town Clerk State of Rhode Island County of Providence Smithfield town S.R.S. April 5th 1861 Personally appeared Clarence R Babcock Deputy Sheriff as a presided and for the some acknowledged the aforegoing instrument to be his free voluntary act and deed and his hand seal shall read thereto Before me John L. Perry Town Clerk Recording for Novr 23 1861 at C. Babcock P.M. and Returned by Chor Cove Town Clerk

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 8 page 384).

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.