The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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8/2/1938 · MORTGAGE · book 27 page 358 doc 147@27/358

From SMITH JOHN W life, SMITH MABEL F life
To BROWN ALBERT E life
Premises none · tract on southerly side of State Highway (Charlestown, Pawlet River Junction)
Index description SEE DOC
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL P

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

◀ 1938 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL P · book 27 p 358
◀ 1937 · DEED · TUCKER IVAH B; TUCKER LOUIS G → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL F · book 26 p 597

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

▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → PIETILA MARY K; PIETILA MICHAEL · book 27 p 273
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → MAYO FRANCES; MAYO JAMES · book 27 p 287
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → BRIGHTMAN ALICE M; BRIGHTMAN CHARLES S; BRIGHTMAN HENRY S · book 27 p 308
▶ 1938 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL P · book 27 p 358
▶ 1940 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SAUNDERS ALBERT A; SAUNDERS NELLIE F · book 25 p 686
▶ 1942 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL F · book 27 p 422
▶ 1942 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → ODONNELL EUGENE C; ODONNELL RUTH M · book 28 p 623
▶ 1942 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → TUCKER IVAH B; TUCKER LOUIS G · book 28 p 629
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → MALLOY EDITH L; MALLOY JOSEPH M · book 29 p 47
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → WEBSTER MABEL F; WEBSTER CHARLES C · book 29 p 120
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 29 p 149
▶ 1943 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → WOODMANSEE FRANCES M; WOODMANSEE JOHN E · book 26 p 601
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E; BROWN EDWARD C DECEASED → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 29 p 171
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E · book 29 p 181
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → WILLIAMS CHARLES H; WILLIAMS MAXINE H · book 29 p 216
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E · book 29 p 295

The instrument's own words

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358 We, JOHN F. SMITH and MABEL F. SMITH, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to ALBERT S. BROWN, of said Town, County and State with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of ONE THOUSAND (1000) Dollars in four (4) years with interest at six (6) per cent um per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of own date herewith. That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: a certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon standing, situated on the southerly side of the State Highway running from the Charlestown State Airport to the Pawlet River Junction, in said Town of Charlestown which tract of land is described as follows: Beginning at a point at the northeasterly corner of the tract here brought conveyed and at the northeasterly corner of the premises of Carlson L. Palmer, at said point being one hundred (100) feet east of said State Highway, thence running, southerly bounded east by said Palmer land, a distance of three hundred fifty eight (358) feet; thence running westerly, bounded northerly by said State Highway, and of Louis S. Docker, et ux, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet; thence northerly, bounded westerly by said Docker land, a distance of three hundred and twenty three (323) feet, bounded northerly by said land, and thence running east a distance of three hundred fifty three (353) feet, core or lees, to said State High- way; thence easterly, bounded northerly by said State Highway, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet, to the point and place of beginning or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. WITNESS our hands this first day of August, 1939. JOHN W. SMITH MABEL F. SMITH. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) county of Washington ) In Charlestown on the first day of August, 1939 before me personally appeared John W. Smith and Mabel F. Smith, 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 August 2nd, A. D. 1939 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage, recorded in the records of land evidence in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, as follows: Book 27 page 358, do hereby cancel and discharge the same. And I covenant to and with the person making said payment that I am the sole owner of said mortgage. In WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of September, 1939. ALBERT S. BROWN Above discharge received for record September 22, A. D. 1939, 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.