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5/22/1948 · DEED · book 31 page 127 doc 1938@31/127

From BURDICK BESSIE P
To ANDREW CHESTER, ANDREW MARGARET S
Premises none · Lot No. 1 on Hill Pasture and associated rights-of-way (Hill Pasture, Charlestown Pond)
Index description LOT 1 HILL PASTURE

Back — where this land came from

deed Charles J. Link and Niel H. Thompson book 22 p 254 Charlestown
“Being the same premises conveyed to this Grantor by deed from Charles J. Link and Niel H. Thompson”
◀ Follow back 1926 · DEED · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY; THOMPSON JULIA; THOMPSON NIEL H → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 22 p 254
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deed Dorothy T. Link book 26 p 419 Charlestown
“Said rights-of-way being conveyed by deed from Dorothy T. Link to this Grantor”
◀ Follow back 1936 · DEED · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY T → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 26 p 419
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1945 · DEED · BURDICK BESSIE P; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 29 p 557
◀ 1945 · DEED · BABCOCK CORA I; BURDICK BESSIE P; WESSEL ELSIE → BURDICK BESSIE P; JOHNSON CAROLINE L; JOHNSON MARY B · book 29 p 540
◀ 1945 · DEED · BURDICK BESSIE P; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 29 p 554
◀ 1936 · DEED · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY T → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 26 p 419
◀ 1926 · DEED · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY; THOMPSON JULIA; THOMPSON NIEL H → BURDICK BESSIE P · book 22 p 254

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

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

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
127 I, BESSIE P. BURDICK, of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to CHESTER ANDREW and MARGARET S. ANDREW, husband and wife, as Joint Tenantx and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS A certain lot or tract of land situated on "Hill Pasture, " so called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and is a portion of Lot No. 1 as shown on "Plan of House Lots on Hill Pasture in Charlestown belonging to Edward B. Burdick, Scale 50 feet to an inch, October, 1923, Earl C. Whalley, Surveyor," and is bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of said Lot No. 1; thence Northerly along the West line of said lot Seventy-five (75) feet to the northwest corner thereof; thence eastesterly, bounding northerly by Lot No. 2, as shown on said plat, a distance of Fifty (50) feet; thence southerly, bounding easterly by other part of Lot No. 1, as shown on said plat, a distance of Seventy-five (75) feet to the south line thereof; thence westerly, bounding southerly by the south line of said Lot a distance of Fifty (50) feet to the place of beginning. Being the same premises conveyed to this Grantor by deed from Charles J. Link and Niel H. Thompson; said deed bearing date of June 19th, 1926 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 22 at Page 254. Also, right of way, described as follows: Running from the Street as shown on abovementioned plat, in a southerly and northerly direction, 10 feet from and parallel to the easterly boundary line of land formerly of John R. Johnson, et ux, to the premises, now or formerly, of this Grantor and premises of Doretta T. Rinker. Also, granting unto said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, a right of way to pass for all purposes over the community lot, so called, on said plat, from the street to Charlestown Pond. Said rights-of-way being conveyed by deed from Dorothy T. Link to this Grantor by deed dated July 24, 1936 and recorded in said Records of Land Evidence, Book No. 26, Page 419. Reference to the aforementioned deeds and the records thereof being hereby had and made and the same a made part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed. I, Bessie P. Burdick, hereby covenant that I am a widow and unmarried. WITNESS my hand this 15th day of May 1948. BESSIE P. BURDICK (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, 55¢) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington { { In Charlestown on the 15th day of May, 1948 before me personally appeared Bessie P. Burdick to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record May 22nd, A. D. 1948 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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