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Claiming by or under me will have naught hold challenge claim or demand any
right Title Interest or claim therein but will forever hereafter be utterly
excluded and debarred by force and virtue of these presents
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
tenth day of February in the year one Thousand eight hundred and
fourteen (1814) Mercy Perry [seal]
Signed sealed & delivered
in presence of
Ezra Suttman
Jospeh Maxson jr.
Washington Co. State of Rhode Island &
Westerly, February 10th 1814
Recorded Feby 21st 1814) Mercy Perry subscriber to the preceding indenture
by Clrk Court C. & P. =ment acknowledged the same to be her free
voluntary act before me Jospeh Maxson Jp. [illegible]
Know all Men by These presents that I Jonathan Perry of Westerly
in the county of Washington in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation
do grant for the Consideration of the Sum of Ten Thousand Dollars to me in hand
well and truly paid by Rose Babcock and Benjamin Babcock of Westerly in the
county of Washington in the state aforesaid yeaman Merchants trading
in company under the form of Rose & Benjamin Babcock the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge and am thereby fully satisfied contented & paid
have given granted bargained and sold and by these presents do give grant
bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said Rose & Benjamin Babcock
their heirs and assigns forever three certain tracts or parcels of Land situated
on the Town of Charlestown in the County and state aforesaid which are butted
and bounded as follows (to wit)
The first Lot whereas is a dwelling house and other buildings standing
is bounded as follows Beginning at the Northeaster Corner of this tract by
the post road from thence Easterly bounding on said road until it comes to
farms highway on Land those Still called bounding northerly by
said Highway Land until it comes to a rock at the Edge of the salt pond Thence
bounding Easterly or Southerly on said salt pond until it comes to the Line
between this Tract and Lands belonging to Jonathan Champion of Edward White
Thence Northerly by said Champion & White Land a straight line to the said
Post road or place of beginning containing by Estimation three hundred
Acres the same more or less also meaning to embrace or include all the
Islands in the salt pond contiguous to this tract.
The second tract being do salt marsh meadows and beach land together
with an Island called Marshy island containing a bout sixty acres the
the same more or less Bounded as follows with Northely - Northerly
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Northerly on the salt pond Easterly partly on the salt pond, partly on the
old channel where the breach used to run into the sea, and partly on
Daniel Reynolds Beach land where the breach used to be opened Southerly on
the sea and Westerly on Marsh and beach Land belonging me to the heirs of
James Congdon deceased and partly by the aforesaid salt pond
The third tract being wood land lying to the Northerly of the said first
tract containing by estimation forty acres be the same more or less
bounded as follows Easterly partly on Samuel Perry and Thomas Perry
Land and partly on Caleb Brownings land Northerly on Joshua Tucker
land or the Adams land so called, Westerly partly on land belonging to
the heirs of Amos Perry deceased and partly on John May's Land and
Southerly on Samuel May's Land or however otherwise the aforesaid
premises are bounded or supposed to be bounded Reference being had to former
Deeds and conveyances of the same to my late father Jonathan Perry deceased for
a more particular description of the before mentioned premises as by the records
inscribed that token will fully appear Which premises descended to me
virtue of a devise or bequest or in the last will and testament of my
late father the said Jonathan Perry deceased
To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with the
prerogatives and appurtenances thereof to them to the said Bruce & Benjamin Baker
their heirs and assigns forever to them and them only for use benefit & behalf forever
And I the said Jonathan Perry for myself and my heirs forever attorney to administer do
covenant with the said Bruce and Benjamin to acknowledge their hamlet and assigns that I
am lawfully seised in fee of the premises that they are free of all manner encumbrance that
I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Bruce & Benjamin
Baker to hold as a foresaid; and that I will Warrant and defend the same to the said
Bruce and Benjamin Baker their heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims
and demands of all persons.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of February
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen (1814)
Signed sealed & delivered
In presence of
Ezra Stillman
Jesse Maxson jun.
Jonathan Perry (seal)
State of Rhode Island
Washington ct
Westerly February the 11th 1814
Jonathan Perry subscriber acknowledges the foregoing instrument
acknowledged the same to be his free act before me
Jesse Maxson jun. T Clerk
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