The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 12675 › 12392

1/20/1827 · DEED · book 6 page 147 doc 12392

From PERRY HOXSIE ADMINISTRATOR life, WORDEN SAMUEL ESTATE OF life
To BABCOCK JESSE JR life
Premises eleven acres and three perches · land called the Gorton’s Tenement (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

deed Samuel Gorton
“Samuel Gorton had by a certain indenture... set over the said Thomas Gorton’s interest in the said premises to the said Thomas Gorton”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1836 · DEED · BABCOCK SALLY S; BABCOCK JESSE JR → WILCOX GEORGE H P · book 6 p 362
▶ 1854 · DEED · BABCOCK JESSE; BABCOCK SALLY J → ENNIS OLIVER · book 8 p 34
▶ 1855 · DEED · BABCOCK JESSE; BABCOCK SALLY J → KNOWLES ROBERT · book 8 p 127

The instrument's own words

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147 To all People to witness That whereas Thomas Gorton Settler in the Town of Narragansett Town Administrator upon the Estate of Samuel Gorton late of Charlestown in the County of Kent in the Jurisdiction of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations’ He be now one of the executors appointed to the said Estate and as such is bound to pay the just debts of the said deceased and said Samuel Gorton at the time of his decease was seized in fee simple within the County of Kent in the said Jurisdiction of Rhode Island late of the Town of Charlestown in the said County a certain piece of land called the Gorton’s Tenement to be further described by the more particular bounds and descriptions hereunder set forth Whereas the said Thomas Gorton as aforesaid the said Samuel Gorton being and aforementioned in wit of the better use of the house and tenement and for securing the same to the said Thomas Gorton and the heirs of his body and the heirs of his daughter Dorothy’s bodies’ said Samuel the said Samuel Gorton had by a certain indenture made between the said Samuel Gorton and the said Thomas Gorton the said Samuel Gorton being late of the Town of Charlestown in the said County acting and undertaking the said Samuel Gorton’s interest in the said premises to be and void and null and void in the said Benjamin Gorton said Samuel’s Grandson’s expectation with the said Thomas Gorton the said Samuel the said Samuel Gorton had set over the said Thomas Gorton’s interest in the said premises to the said Thomas Gorton and his heirs forever now therefore the said Thomas Gorton by these presents does grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Benjamin Gorton and his heirs forever all that certain piece of land called the Gorton’s Tenement containing eleven acres and three perches more or less within the said Town of Charlestown in the said County of Kent containing eleven acres and three perches more or less within the said Town of Charlestown in the said County of Kent bounded by the land 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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.