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12/21/1812 · MORTGAGE · book 5 page 133 doc 11875

From BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER life
To WILLCOX EDWARD
Consideration fourteen hundred and Seventy Dollars
Premises 240 Acres, 50 Acres, 10 acres, 3 Acres, 110 acres · Various farms and lots including site on Dumonting Neck (Charlestown, Westerly, Dumonting Neck)
Also on this page: RELEASE OTIS CHARLES E EST

Back — where this land came from

heir Christopher Babcock (Father)
“grant from my late Father called Christopher Babcock’s Deed”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1793 · DEED · CLARK SIMEON; CLARK SILVEY → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER · book 4 p 90
◀ 1793 · DEED · UTTER JOSIAH; UTTER HANNAH → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER · book 4 p 95
◀ 1773 · DEED · ROSS SARAH; SAUNDERS DANIEL; ROSS WILLIAM; SANDERS ABIGAIL → BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER · book 3 p 123
◀ 1767 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · WICKHAM CHARLES BY ATTY → STANTON JOSEPH JR; STANTON JOSEPH; BABCOCK CHRISTOPHER; BABCOCK HEZEKI · book 2 p 173

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

▶ 1812 · DEED · WILLCOX EDWARD; WILLCOX HANNAH → HOWARD OLIVER · book 5 p 67
▶ 1817 · DEED · WILLCOX EDWARD → CRANDAL OLIVER; KINYON CALEB JR · book 5 p 312
▶ 1838 · DEED · WILLCOX EDWARD → SECOND SCHOOL DISTRICT · book 6 p 461

The instrument's own words

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138. To all People to Whom these Presents shall come Greeting Please Know That I Christopher Babcock of Charlestown in Washington County and State of Rhode Island Ye oman offer for the Consideration of the sum of fourteen hundred and Seventy Dollars to me in hand well and truly paid before the Execution and Delivery of these presents by Edward Willes of Charlestown in the County and State aforesaid witness that the receipt thereof I Do hereby Acknowledge and that I the said party aforesaid contract and Have given Granted Conveyed and Sold into the hands of the said Edward Willes to his Heirs and Assigns forever All the land mentioned in the grant from my late Father called Christopher Babcock’s Deed being One hundred ninety three feet thereof which land lies in Charlestown and westerly and easterly as follows first One Farm lying in and about Charlestown containing two hundred and forty Acres by Estimation the remainder more or less with the Buildings thereon Manor or Site situated on Dumonting Neck called one and One half lying in the said Charlestown containing fifty Acres One hundred acres lot containing seventy rods by Estimation One the second lot containing by Estimation Ten acres and One Other seventy rods and Lot containing by Estimation Three Acres All in One Farm lying Partly in Westerly and Partly in Charlestown containing by Estimation One hundred and Ten acres with the Buildings thereon and the aforesaids Reference being had to the Deeds and Conveyances had to me to Christopher Babcock’s Father in his lifetime first Recorded in the Books of said Land Evidence and Registering Wills and Deeds in our Westerly and Charlestown may More fully ascertain To Have and to hold all the before Described and Conveyed Premises to the said Edward Willes his Heirs and Assigns forever And I the said Christopher Babcock do covenant and agree for myself my Heirs executed & Administrators to and with the said Edward Willes his Heirs and Assigns forever covenant to warrant against all lawful Claims or Demands of my Predecessors Owners Willingly Provided Never the less these Covenants are Subject Condition that is to say if the said Christopher Babcock or his Heirs Executors or Administrators shall not fully pay or come to be paid with the said Edward Willes his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns the before mentioned sum of fourteen hundred and Seventy Dollars on the Seventy fourth Day of March in the Year Eighteen hundred and thirteen with the Interest accruing thereon and take up his Certificate Note of hand the day made and Executed by the sd Edward Willes for the sum of fourteen hundred and Seventy Dollars payable On the Seventy fourth Day of March in the Year Eighteen hundred and thirteen with Interest from the Date hereof then and in that case the above and foregoing Instrument of Mortgage Deed is to be Null and Void as if Effect became to be and deemed in all full force and Virtue in Law For Witness our hands the Christopher Babcock hereunto set my hand and seal this 15 Day of July 1812
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134 Signed Sealed and Delivered In Presence of Thomas Hoxsey Peleg Cross x Christopher Babcock Washington for Ct. State of Rhode Island be Washington for Ct. Charlestown July 21st D 1812. personally Came Christopher Babcock Signer and Sealer to the within Instrument of Mortgages Deed and Acknowledged the Same to be his Voluntary act and Deed and Seal thereunto his Affix'd And be heard of by a. O. [illegible] Before Peleg Cross for Town Clerk, On the 21st July 1812 Peleg Cross p.s Ann'd Dec. 21. 1812 by Peleg Cross p.s Know all Men by these presents that I James Kunyon of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island common defendant and Conviction of the Sum of seventy eight dol- lars to me on hand well and truly paid by Fortuna Perry daughter of Henry Perry kingston in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island Sabemos in the receipts whereof I do hereby acknowledge and say that I am then with the fully satisfied unto to have had have given grant bargained and sold unto him the said Fortuna Perry his Heirs and Executors administrators and Assigns forever the certain Tract of Land situate in Charlestown containing nine Acres and forty eight Square Rods as appears by a plat of said Land made by fortuna perry & Cap. [illegible] Surveyor Dated March 18th 1812 and is bounded as follows beginning at the South east corner at a stone Pine tree by the highway then running N 59 W 79 Rods to an other stone tree marked from there N 40 E 53 Rods to a small black Oak tree with stone about it by the highway from there S 22 E 59 Rods by the Highway to the first mentioned pine tree Bounding southerly by a bush hath and westerly and northerly on Onslow Land To have and to hold all the above mentioned and Bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to the same Belonging on any way appertaining to him the said fortuna Perry his heirs and Assigns forever and the said forenamed do covenant and agree for myself my heirs Executors and Admin strators to and with the said fortuna Perry his heir and Assigns forever hereafter to warrant seise and Defend by these Presents all the before Demised and Bargaines Premises against all Lawful claims o Demands of any Person or Persons Whatsoever and Sally J. Kunyon Wife of the said James Kunyon doth for the Consideration of the above mentioned Premises yield

The page as recorded

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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.