1795 DEED book 4 p 167

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

◀ 1793 · DEED · UTTER JOSIAH; UTTER HANNAH → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER · book 4 p 95

◀ 1795 · MORTGAGE · STANTON HENRY → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER 2ND · book 4 p 150

◀ 1792 · DEED · HALL ADAM → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER 2ND · book 4 p 61

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. Colonial deeds rarely cite book and page; the land is followed by its bounds and its abutters from here. 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.

Bounded by

The instrument's own words

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1674 Know all Men by these Presents that I Christopher Babcock 2nd of Westerly in Washington County and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations grant convey and assign in Consideration of the sum of fifteen Pounds lawful money to me in hand well and truly paid By William Gardner of Charlestown in said County and State aforesaid the Messuage dwelling house & my full satisfaction and convenient have given Good and valuable Consideration the Premises to the said William Gardner bargain and sell and convey with all Claims and appurtenances and have the & his Heirs forever His heirs Assigns forever all the rights Title interest property Clause and Demise I have here locked or ought have or ought to have in and One Certain lott or piece of Land describe lying and being in the Town of Charlestown and State aforesaid Conveyed by Consideration by some Acres and is bounded as follows North W 1/2 deg beginning at the Corner of the East Line of the home by the means of the south side of the Road South the south line of the Lotter extending of William Gardner toward and from the Corner of the East Line boundary on the same line of the home Gardner's Lotter line now after the south line here with from the same south side of the Home Lot relate the East side would make the 1/2 Acres and from thence round to the same Corner of G Gardner's south line as well as toward Lawrence Stanton toward Messing boundary Lotterly the south line by Lawrence Stanton Lotterly the East boundary Lotterly the south line and Gardner Lotterly the East boundary by the said Country Road & East District Road Johana and to hold all the said Goods bargain’d and Said Claimed Premises with all the Utensances for some all Use conveniences Whatever from me the said Christopher Babcock & my Heirs Successors be Administrator executors or other Persons of Whatever Cause comes right title or interest in or unto the Above Demised Premises in my name Same State and will be forever hereafter excluded and Devised null and voidly Without the Powers that were written to me the said Christopher Babcock above listed the said William Gardner His heirs and Assigns - For Witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal this 16th Day of October in the twenty seventh Year of American Independence 1805 Signed Sealed and Delivered At My Presence of Sam S Oliven Henry Stanton Christopher Babcock 2nd Washington County Westerly October the 16th 1805 Personally appeared the within named Mr Christopher Babcock 2nd and acknowledged in the above instrument & he did for act & Deed with his hand and that the same to appear to be Me Sam S Oliven Justice Peace Recorded in the Deed Book 2th 1805 by Pilegoff Clerk T. C. L.

The page as recorded

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.