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Trail: 9521

12/13/1934 · DEED · book 25 page 653 doc 9521

From BABCOCK FANNIE S life, BABCOCK EDWARD WILCOX life
To SAYER EDMUND A
Premises five hundred and five acres more-or-less · Part of Sowons Island, also called Wilcox Island, Wilcox Hill or Governors Island (Charlestown Pond, Sowons Island, Wilcox Island, Wilcox Hill, Governors Island)

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This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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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

▶ 1954 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → WILLES HAROLD C · book 34 p 132
▶ 1963 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → PETROKAITIS ANNETTA; PETROKAITIS JOSEPH A · book 39 p 247
▶ 1964 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → FANTAU MARY C; FANTAU RUPERT G · book 40 p 33
▶ 1965 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → CARON LEONA J; CARON NORMAN H · book 40 p 354
▶ 1965 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → GEITZ ANNE M; GEITZ ROBERT C · book 40 p 363
▶ 1965 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → MACDONALD DOROTHY M · book 40 p 378
▶ 1965 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → RICE DUDLEY T; RICE HAZEL B · book 40 p 406
▶ 1965 · AFFIDAVIT · COATES MARY VIVIAN; SAYER EDMUND A; VARS LEON P; STERRAT CAMILLA E EST → · book 40 p 406
▶ 1965 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → BEHL LULU M; BEHL WOLFGANG · book 40 p 444
▶ 1966 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → GLEN BRUCE L · book 41 p 175
▶ 1967 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → KRAUS JOHN L · book 42 p 123
▶ 1967 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → FISHER ARLENE F; FISHER WILLIAM M; GENDRON J HAROLD; GENDRON VELNA L · book 41 p 545
▶ 1967 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → COMBINED CONSTRUCTION INC · book 41 p 546
▶ 1969 · DEED · GENDRON J HAROLD; GENDRON VELNA L; SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → SAYER EDMUND A; FISHER ARLENE F; FISHER WILLIAM M; SAYER A RUTH · book 43 p 206
▶ 1969 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → GENDRON J HAROLD; GENDRON VELMA L · book 43 p 207
▶ 1969 · DEED · SAYER A RUTH; SAYER EDMUND A → CAROCARI EUGENE P · book 43 p 329

The instrument's own words

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653 QUITCLAIM DEED KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that Edward Wilcox Babcock and Fannie S. Babcock his wife of the City of Troy, County of Rensselaer and State of New York for consideration paid, 150.00 more or less grant to Edmund A. Sayer his heirs and assigns of Providence, County of Providence, R. I. with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Town of Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: "A certain tract or parcel of land situated in the Town of Charlestown, Washington county in the State of Rhode Island is- land, being part of a much larger part called known as called Sowons Island, situated between the years 1795-1795, and at that time being entirely surrounded by water, and also called "Sowons Island" since 1795, and since 1795 and since 1795 has been called "Wilcox Island", Wilcox Hill or Governors Island, con- taining five hundred and five acres more-or-less (505) acres more or less; bounded southerly by tide water in Charlestown Pond and by low land now owned by heirs of Jonas S. Kenyon and by tide water by the land of the heirs of James S. Kenyon and by tide water in Charlestown Pond, northerly by land formerly a part of said Sowons Island and now claimed by, and in the possession of Leah Trompette and others, easterly by tide water in Charlestown Pond, and easterly by tide water in Charlestown Pond, or however bounded." And I, Fannie S. Babcock wife of the grantor for consideration paid, and other valuable consideration paid, release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises WITNESS our hands this 8th day of September 1834. FANNIE S. BABCOCK (SEAL) EDWARD F. BABCOCK (SEAL) (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50¢) STATE OF NEW YORK } } County of Rensselaer } In Troy on the 8th day of September, 1934 before me personally appeared Edward Wilcox Babcock and Fannie S. Babcock his wife to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. HAWLEY S. PHILLIPS Notary Public Albany County, State of New York Certificate filed in Rensselaer County Commission expires March 30, 1938 Received for record December 13th, A. D. 1934 at 11:35 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

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