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9/5/1946 · DEED · book 30 page 141 doc 1383@30/141

From JOHNSON GENEVIEVE, JOHNSON JOHN N life
To ANDREW CHESTER, ANDREW MARGARET S
Consideration less than $100.00
Premises none · tract of land at Hill pasture (Hill pasture, Charlestown Pond, Charlestown)
Index description SEE INSTRUMENT

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

◀ 1945 · DEED · HIGGINS JOHN H → JOHNSON GENEVIEVE LOUISE; JOHNSON JOHN N JR · book 29 p 512
◀ 1946 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY → JOHNSON JOHN N JR; JOHNSON GENEVIEVE · book 28 p 440
◀ 1944 · DEED · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY T → JOHNSON GENEVIEVE; JOHNSON JOHN N · book 29 p 228

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

▶ 1946 · MORTGAGE · ANDREW CHESTER; ANDREW MARGARET S → WAKEFIELD TRUST CO · book 30 p 74
▶ 1950 · ASSIGNMENT · ANDREW CHESTER; ANDREW MARGARET S; BENNETT HATTIE L; BENNETT ODDMAN B; → · book 32 p 169
▶ 1964 · DEED · ANDREW CHESTER; ANDREW MARGARET S → OBRIEN ALWINA W; OBRIEN THOMAS M · book 39 p 678

Bounded by

Bessie P. Burdick · Doretta Rinker

The instrument's own words

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141 We, JOHN N. JOHNSON and GENEVIEVE JOHNSON, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to CHESTER ANDREW and MARGARET S. ANDREW, husband and wife, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in common, meaning to the survivor, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, with WARRANTY COVENANTS A certain tract of land, situated at Hill pasture, So-called, in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the corner at the northwesterly corner of this tract and at the northeasterly corner of land formerly of John N. Johnson, et ux; thence easterly, bounded easterly by northerly side s said street a distance of 111 feet, thence northeasterly corner of said street a distance of 111 feet, thence southerly bounded easterly partly by land formerly of Charles J. Link and Niels H. Thompson and partly by land formerly of Jacob B. [?] a distance of 111 feet, thence westerly bounded easterly partly by southern land partly by nor and formerly of Bessie B. Purdy and partly by land formerly of Jacob B. [?] a distance of 111 feet, thence southerly a distance of 55 feet to the easterly corner of said Johnson land; thence westerly a distance northerly of 75 feet, bounded westerly by an unknown street, and thence northerly to the place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. For a more particular description of above-described premises reference is hereby made to map made by W. H. House Lots on Hill Pasture in Charlestown, Earl C. Whaley, "Surveyor." This conveyance is made subject to right-of-way Ter Doretta T. Rinker, her heirs and assigns, as mentioned in a deed from Charles J. Link and Niels H. Thompson to said Doretta T. Rinker, recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown, in Book 26, at Page 419. Also, granting unto said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, a right-of-way to pass for all purposes over the community lot, no-called, on said plat, from the street to Charlestown Pond. This conveyance is made subject to the rights of others, as of record, to and from the well on the above-described premises and as well the privilege of drawing water therefrom. The consideration of this deed is less than $100.00. We, John N. Johnson and Genevieve Johnson, release to said Grantees all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in and to the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands this 4th day of September, 1946. JOHN N. JOHNSON GENEVIEVE JOHNSON STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown, on the 4th day of September, 1946, before me personally appeared John N. Johnson and Genevieve Johnson, 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. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record September 5th, A. D. 1946 at 9:30 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.