Note of Heirs/Executors (Richard Barton to Benjamin Barton) 1777

Object/Artifact

-

Historical Collection at the George Hail Free Library

Front of item

Front of item

Name/Title

Note of Heirs/Executors (Richard Barton to Benjamin Barton) 1777

Entry/Object ID

2025.01.24.03

Tags

Grant, Legal

Description

Note to announce executor

Made/Created

Date made

1777

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

handwritten

Transcription

Know all men by the prefents that I Richard Barton of Warren. Do for myself my heirs executors & Administrators acquit all thee Right title Claim or Demand that Inow have or ever had in or to a negro boy named Hadly to my Brother Benjamin Barton of Warren to him his heirs and a signs for ever this twelfth Day of march one thousand seven hundred & seventy seventy as witnessed by my hand. Richard Barton attest. Samuel Shie (?)

Material/Technique

Pencil

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Deed

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Contract

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Muniment

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Agreement

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Legal Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

deeds, contracts

Dimensions

Height

3-3/4 in

Length

7-1/2 in

Material

Paper

Location

Location

Area

Revolutionary Display

Date

April 18, 2025

Location

Container

Display Case 104

Room

Charles Whipple Greene Historical Collection

Building

George Hail Free Library

Date

April 18, 2025

Location

Box

Document Box 12

Area

Museum Floor Landing

Building

George Hail Free Library

Date

January 24, 2025

Condition

Overall Condition

Very Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Benjamin Barton, Richard Barton

Related Places

Place

City

Warren

State/Province

Rhode Island

Region

Northeast

Continent

North America

Exhibition

Warren During the Revolutionary War

Research Notes

Research Type

Researcher

Person

Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert

Date

Jan 24, 2025

Notes

Enslaved person mentioned in note is named Hadly.

Create Date

January 24, 2025

Update Date

August 11, 2025