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8/29/1936 · DEED · book 26 page 469 doc 199@26/469

From BURDICK JAMES A life
To KEENAN SYLVIA, KEENAN WALTER F
Consideration less than $100
Premises none · Lot Number 72 at East Beach (East Beach, Charlestown Pond, Powaget Avenue, Central Avenue)
Index description POWAGET AVE

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

◀ 1930 · DEED · ALDRICH MARY E → BURDICK JAMES ALFRED · book 24 p 101
◀ 1909 · DEED · PEABODY HERBERT E; PEABODY GEORGE F → BURDICK JAMES A · book 16 p 264

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

▶ 1936 · DEED · KEENAN SYLVIA; KEENAN WALTER F → TUCKER MILLARD F · book 26 p 434
▶ 1954 · DEED · KEENAN SYLVIA; KEENAN WALTER F → DAGGETT HOWARD C; DAGGETT LILLIAN F; FOSTER GLADYS E; FOSTER JOSEPH A · book 34 p 235
▶ 1954 · DEED · KEENAN SYLVIA; KEENAN WALTER F → DAGGETT HOWARD C; DAGGETT LILLIAN F; FOSTER GLADYS E; FOSTER JOSEPH A · book 34 p 235
▶ 1954 · DEED · KEENAN SYLVIA; KEENAN WALTER F → MCCLURE JAMES A; MCCLURE MARY A · book 34 p 251
▶ 1966 · DEED · KEENAN SYLVIA; KEENAN WALTER F → DAY MARJORIE C; DAY ROBERT S · book 41 p 286

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
469 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, JAMES A. BURDICK, widower, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to WALTER F. KEENAN and SYLVIA KEENAN, husband and wife, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, with rights of survivorship, both of the Town of Westerly, said County and State That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: A certain tract or parcel of land situated at East Beach, so-called, in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the tract hereby conveyed and at the northwesterly corner of other land of Guentees; thence northerly, bounded westerly by Powwget Avenue, to the shore of Charlestown Pond; thence easterly, bounded northerly by said Pond, a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to Central Avenue; thence southerly, bounded easterly by Central Avenue, 50 feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of other land of said other of Grantees; thence westerly, bounded southerly by Guentees' land a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. Meaning and intending to convey Lot Number 72 as shown on that plan or plat entitled, "Plat of Land in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., Owned by James Alfred Burdick. Surveyed and Platted August, 1933, by Leon L. Holland, Civil Engineer." Reference to said plat which is on file in the Town Clerk's Office of said Charlestown, is hereby made and made the same made a part hereof for a more complete description of the hereby conveyed premises. The consideration of this deed is less than $100. WITNESS my hand this 29th day of August, 1936. JAMES A. BURDICK. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 29th day of August 1936 before me personally appeared James A. Burdick to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed, to be his free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record August 29th, A. D. 1936 at 6:15 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?] 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.