The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 5962

10/5/1903 · DEED · book 14 page 502 doc 5962

From MACOMBER BILLINGS D life
To BARNEY HERBERT E
Premises 4200 square feet · tract of beach land (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1875 · DEED · HOXSIE DORA M; HOXSIE NANCY B; CLARK MAXSON G; CLARKE HANNAH; HOXSIE S → MACOMBER BILLINGS D · book 10 p 161
◀ 1868 · DEED · BABCOCK BENJAMIN; BABCOCK SUSAN A; WILLIAMS ANN B; PALMER HARRIET B; B → MACOMBER BILLINGS D · book 9 p 249

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

▶ 1905 · DEED · BARNEY HERBERT E; BARNEY ELLA M → WALCOTT NELSON H; WALCOTT NELLIE L · book 15 p 191

The instrument's own words

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502 Know All men by these Presents, That I J. Billings D Macomber of Charlestown in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, in consideration of the sum of Seventy five dollars to me paid by Herbert E Barney of East Providence, County of Providence states as aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged to hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto him the said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest property claim and demand which I now have or of right ought to have, or claim, in and to a certain tract of beach land situated at Unavailable in said Charlestown containing 4200 square feet bounded as follows beginning at a stake at the beach banks at the Southeast corner of land of H Wales and Sullivan he Parrott, thence Northerly bounded Westerly by said Parrotts land twenty feet, thence Easterly sixty feet and thence Southerly seventy feet to a stake in said beach banks, thence Westerly along said beach bank Sixty feet to the place of beginning bounded Northerly Easterly and Southerly by land of the state or others bounded with a right of way to pass and repass with horses or on foot across the farm of the grantor to his beach Also a right to take water from the well on said farm, I have and by these the same, with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining, unto and to the use of him the said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns forever And I the aforementioned Billings D Macomber for myself and for my heirs, executors and administrators do covenant with the said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns, that I will warrant and defend the aforesetcribed premises unto the said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by me, through or under me. In testimony whereof I have executed set my hand and seal this 3d day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three. Signed and sealed in presence of George own L Cross Billings D Macomber SS State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Charlestown on the 3d day October Ad 1903 before me personally appeared Billings
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503 D. December to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed George G Cross Notary Public Received for record October 5 1903 at 10 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George G Cross Town Clerk Know all MEN by these Presents That I Everett A Briggs of Hopkinton in the County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor, in consideration of ten (10) Dollars to me paid by Ruth A. Briggs of said Hopkinton hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Ruth Grantee and her heirs and assigns forever, that certain tract of land and the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown in said County, it being lot No two (2) on a plat of land conveyed by deed from Samuel F. Babcock and others to Hobart A. Carter dated September 24th 1880 and recorded in Land Evidence of said Charlestown, Book No 110 Page 553 & 555, as also said plat is recorded in said Land Evidence at page 557, and does in a deed from Many Le Boys to this grantor recorded in said Land Evidence in Book No 113 page 247, to which deed plat and the record hereof reference is hereby made, Also an one eighth (1/8) undivided interest in a street running through said tract from formerly of said Babcock and others to the sea, said street being thirty five (35) feet wide, and bounded on the east by Lot No 2 land on the West by Lot No 3 as shown on said plat; the said Ruth A. Briggs her heirs and assigns to be held in for one eighth (1/8) of the expense of keeping said street and gate or gates thereon in repair, Reserving also to said Thornel F. Babcock her heirs and assigns a right to peaceably pass and repass at all times along the street laid out on said plat for the common use of all the purchasers of lots upon said tract. To have and to hold the above granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto

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