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5/11/1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · book 27 page 646 doc 117@27/646

From HOXSIE LEORA E
To CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF life, CROSS WILLIAM D life
Premises none · No premises described for the specified instrument (Charlestown)
Index description AP 3 LOT 135B

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

◀ 1936 · DEED · HOXSIE WILLIAM L → HOXSIE LEORA E · book 26 p 305

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1957 · RELEASE · THORP NELSON H → WILLIAMS ARTHUR G · book 35 p 263
“premises conveyed to this Grantor and Elizabeth C. Williams as the eighth and ninth tracts in that certain deed”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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

▶ 1939 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CROSS WILLIAM D; CROSS CELIA M · book 28 p 25
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 246
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS WILLIAM D DECEASE → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 247
▶ 1941 · TAX SALE RETURN · CROSS WILLIAM D; DAVID JOSEPH B; GILMARTIN EUGENE R; CENTRAL TOOL CO; → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; LASKEY HOWARD G; TIMPERLEY J WILLIAM; TIMPERLEY R · book 28 p 474
▶ 1942 · TAX SALE RETURN · CLARK CLARENCE L; CROSS WILLIAM D; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; MINER ETHEL; T → GREEN HATTIE; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CROSS WILLIAM D; GREEN ERNEST · book 28 p 693
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W DECEASED → BROWN ALBERT E · book 29 p 180
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BOOTHMAN ERNEST R · book 29 p 271
▶ 1944 · TAX SALE RETURN · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CLARKE EDWARD M; CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; → · book 29 p 285
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WALKER ALICE L · book 29 p 296
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → GRIMES EMILY R; MCVAY ELLEN E; BROOKS ELIZABETH J · book 29 p 424
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CLARKE EDWARD M · book 29 p 519
▶ 1946 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WOODMANCY GLADYS M; WOODMANCY WILLIAM N · book 30 p 259
▶ 1948 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → LEWIS GEORGE H · book 30 p 678
▶ 1949 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 31 p 594
▶ 1950 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → DEAN FORREST E; DEAN THELMA L · book 32 p 84
▶ 1955 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WOOLLEY FREDERICK; WOOLLEY MARY L · book 34 p 493

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
696 This Washington Trust Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, having its principal place of business in the Town of Westerly, the State of Rhode Island and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to Charles D. Jownie, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS: That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: That certain parcel or tract of Land located in said Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and laid out and designated as Lot Number 1, on a "Plat of Land" located in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., owned by Charles C. Jownie D., Jr., Surveyed and Platted, Aug. 1932. Book 24, Page 114, recorded 11th day of Dec. 1932 in the Land Evidence office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown. The purpose of this deed being to release the above described premises from a certain mortgage given from this Grantor to this Grantor dated May 11, 1930 and duly recorded in the Land Evidence Records in said Town of Charlestown in Book 24 at Page 462, in all other respects said mortgage remaining in full force and effect. In Witness Whereof the said Washington Trust Company by Arthur L. Perry, its President, duly authorized, has set its hand and seal this 27th day of May 1939. THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY by Arthur L. Perry (Corporate Seal) President STATE OF RHODE ISLAND County of Washington ) In Westerly, on the 27th day of May, 1939 before me personally appeared said Arthur L. Perry, a President of said The Washington Trust Company, to me and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument for and on behalf of said The Washington Trust Company and acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of The Washington Trust Company as said instrument, by his execution, to be his free act and deed, in his capacity aforesaid and the free act and deed of said The Washington Trust Company. HANOLD D. LIVINGSTON Notary Public (Notarial Seal) Received for record June 5th, A. D. 1939 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk. ---- I, Howard H. Thorp of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Charles C. Jownie, D., Jr. of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS: That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of Land located in said Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and laid out and designated as Lot Number (Twelve) 12 shown on a "Plat of Land" in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., owned by Charles C. Jownie D., Jr., Surveyed and Platted, Aug. 1932. Book 24, Page 114, recorded in the Land Evidence office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown. It being the intention of this deed to release the above described premises from a certain mortgage given from this Grantor to this Grantor dated May 29, 1935 and duly recorded in the Land Evidence Records in said Town of Charlestown in Book 26 at Page 70. WITNESS my hand this 27th day of May 1939. HOWARD H. THORP (SEAL) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND County of Washington ) In Westerly on the 27th day of May, 1939 before me personally appeared Howard H. Thorp to me and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by his execution, to be his free act and deed. MARY R. MULLEN (Notarial Seal) Notary Public. Received for record June 5th, A. D. 1939 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

page 1

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.