The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 119@27/648

5/11/1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · book 27 page 648 doc 119@27/648

From JACOBS ELEANOR E
To WRIGHT HELEN M, WRIGHT NORMAN J
Premises Lot Number Twelve (12) on a 1932 plat (Charlestown)
Index description AP 18 LOT 184

Back — where this land came from

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

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

▶ 1940 · DEED · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → FALLOW DAVID J · book 28 p 190
▶ 1947 · DEED · CHERRY HELEN M; WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BROWN ALBERT E · book 30 p 342
▶ 1949 · DEED · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → ROSAZZA ETHEL S · book 31 p 569
▶ 1957 · DEED · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BARBER SHIRLEY M; BARBER WALTER H · book 36 p 1
▶ 1957 · DEED · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BARBER SHIRLEY M; BARBER WALTER H · book 34 p 571
▶ 1958 · RELEASE · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BARBER SHIRLEY M; BARBER WALTER H · book 36 p 4
▶ 1958 · RELEASE · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BARBER SHIRLEY M; BARBER WALTER H · book 35 p 116
▶ 1964 · RELEASE · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → BARBER SHIRLEY M; BARBER WALTER H · book 36 p 368
▶ 1974 · DEED · WRIGHT HELEN M; WRIGHT NORMAN J → MILLAR MARY C; MILLAR ROBERT H · book 50 p 196

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
697 I, CHARLES C. DOWNIE, JR., of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to CORA D. WOODING, of the Town of Bristol, State of Connecticut, with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, 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 the Land in the Town of Charlestown, R. I.", surveyed by Charles C. Downie, Jr., Surveyed and Platted, Aug., 1932. By Leon H. Rolland, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 100', and filed in the office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown. Said lot is bounded as follows: SOUTHERLY : by a road, now or formerly a Town Highway, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, more or less, as shown on said plat; WESTERLY : by Lot Number Eleven (11) shown on said plat, a distance of one hundred fifty (150) feet, more or less; NORTHERLY : by Lot Number 21, as shown on said plat, a distance of Sixty (60) feet, more or less; EASTERLY : by Lot Number 11, as shown on said plat, a distance of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet, more or less. I, Eleanor C. Downie wife of the grantor release to the grantees all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 26th day of May, 1939. ELEANOR C. DOWNIE CHARLES C. DOWNIE, JR. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS, 50¢) STATE OF CONNECTICUT) ) County of New London) In the Town of Stonington on the 26th day of May 1939 before me personally appeared Charles C. Downie, Jr. and Eleanor C. Downie, husband and wife, both 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. GONNIS F. VARD Notary Public. Received for record June 5th, A. D. 1939 at 9:10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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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.