The instrument's own words
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Know all Men by these Present that I Simon Babcock of Chil
ton town in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations Yeoman, for and in Consideration of the sum of Sixty Hundred dol
lars to me in hand well and truly paid by and paid for by Gideon Knowlton town in the County of
Washington and State aforesaid Yeoman, The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
and by this Instrument Do remise release and forever Quitclaim to the said paid for General
my Right Title Property and Demand that I have of an acreage containing
about 24 rods of Land lying in Charlestown in the County of Washington and State
aforesaid containing by Estimation Eighty acres be it the same more or less and as
follows With Beginning at Courtenay's River by a ditch there settles with the
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