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8/29/1938 · MORTGAGE · book 27 page 397 doc 179@27/397

From MILLER ELIZABETH life, MILLER FRANK
To HIA PEARL CORPORATION
Premises Lot 20 of Sea Lea Colony (Charlestown, South Kingston)
Index description LOT 20 SEA LEA COLONY

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 · DEED · BEHNEKE MARIE ROSE YVONNE; BEHNEKE NORMAN L; BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BUR → MILLER ELIZABETH; MILLER FRANK · book 27 p 367

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ (an instrument we do not hold)
“conveyed by a deed from The Washington Trust Company, Executor under the Will of Susan Champlin”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1938 · DEED · KING CHARLES; KING MARIE LEA → KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 393
“conveyed by deed of said Fred H. Kenton to these Grantors, dated September 30, 1937”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1936 · DEED · REILLY THOMAS F; REILLY ANNA T → KING FRANK · book 26 p 311
“conveyed by a deed from The Washington Trust Company, Executor under the Will of Susan Champlin”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1940 · MORTGAGE · WILSON GRAFTON M; WILSON MARION G → INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY · book 28 p 148
“conveyed by a deed from The Washington Trust Company... to this Grantor and his wife”
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

▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · MILLER ELIZABETH; MILLER FRANK; HIA PEARL CORPORATION → BUILDING INDUSTRY FINANCE CORPORATION · book 27 p 700
▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HIA PEARL CORPORATION; BUILDING INDUSTRY FINANCE CORPORATION → MILLER FRANK L; MILLER ELIZABETH M · book 27 p 700

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
397 We, FRANK MILLER and ELIZABETH MILLER, husband and wife, of Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, for consideration paid, grant to Hia-Pearl Corporation of Quincy, Norfolk County with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS in Three (3) years with Six (6%) per centum interest per annum payable as provided in our note of eve date, the land and buildings thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, State of Rhode Island, and laid out and delineated as Lot Number (20) twenty on that plat entitled, "Sea Lea Colony in Charlestown and South Kingston, R. I., Property of M. N. Y. Behnke, Numbered Lots Represent Area of Sea Lea Colony, Surveyed and Platted 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939," Leon L. Holland, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 80' " which plat is recorded in the records of Land Evidence in said Town of Charlestown. This conveyance is made subject to the following restrictions binding upon the said grantees, their heirs and assigns: 1. Only one private single-family residence and a private garage shall be erected, plated maintained or permitted upon said lot, or any part thereof. No part of any building, including porches, shall come nearer than five (5) feet to the north- easterly side line of said lot, or ten (10) feet to the westerly side line of said lot, including porches, or be erected on said lot number (20) twenty nearer than twenty feet from Third Street or nearer than fifteen (15) feet from Sea Lea Avenue. 2. No garage shall be used as a residence unless it costs the minimum cost of the residence to be erected on said lot, and no tent, car house or auto repair shop shall be erect- ed, placed, or maintained on said premises. 3. All toilets and sinks drains on said lots shall be connected with cesspools or septic tanks so placed that they shall not leak or endanger any drinking water supply, nor or pollute the waters along the shore of above mentioned plat. 4. Said lots, or any part thereof, shall not be used for any trade or business or commercial purpose or for any noxious or offensive purpose whatever. 5. No house shall be erected, or maintained or placed on said lot costing less than Fifteen Hundred ($1,500.00) Dollars without written consent of grantors. This mortgage is upon the statutory condition, for any breach of which the mortgagee shall have the statutory power of sale Frank L. Miller (husband) Elizabeth M. Miller (wife) release to the mortgagees all rights of tenancy by curtesy dower and homestead and other interests in the mortgaged premises. Aug. 29 day of August 1938. WITNESSED our hands and seals this Elizabeth M. Miller Frank L. Miller THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Bristol ss. August 29 1938 Then personally appeared the above named FRANK MILLER and ELIZABETH MILLER, husband and wife, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their free act and deed, before me Y. VALTER EMERSON (Seal) Notary Public My Commission expires Dec. 23, 1944. Received for record August 29th A. D. 1938 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Seal] Town Clerk. (For TRANSFER and DISCHARGE of above mortgage, see Page 700)

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.