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9/15/1938 · DEED · book 27 page 424 doc 203@27/424

From FORD FRANCIS H, FORD KATHERINE A
To MARTTILA HANNA
Premises none · Tract bounded by Pawcatuck River and lands of Sweet and Ford (Charlestown, Pawcatuck River)
Index description SEE DOC

Back — where this land came from

deed George W. Cross, Collector of Taxes book 26 p 351 Charlestown
“by deed from George W. Cross, Collector of Taxes, to these Grantors dated July 20th, 1935”
◀ Follow back 1936 · MORTGAGE · BROWN EVERETT E; BROWN LILLIAN → LAND BANK COMMISSIONER · book 26 p 351
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1938 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · MARTILLA MANNA → FORD FRANCIS H; FORD KATHERINE A · book 27 p 351
◀ 1934 · DEED · LAINE ROBERT; LAINE VERA → FORD FRANCIS H; FORD KATHERINE A · book 25 p 454

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

▶ 1984 · CERTIFICATE · MARTTILA HANNA → · book 74 p 741
▶ 1985 · CERTIFICATE · MARTTILA HANNA → · book 78 p 536

The instrument's own words

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424 We, Francis H. Ford and Katherine A. Ford, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Hanna Marttila, of the City and State of New York with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: together with the buildings and improvements thereon: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of this tract, at the intersection of lands of Frank S. Sweet, land now owned by Dorothy G. Alfred and Richard L. Ford and family of Charlestown, R.I. at bar; thence easterly bounded by Alfred and Ford, land now owned by family of Sweet, et al, to the Pawcatuck River; thence easterly bounded by Sweet, land now owned of Sweet trust, et al, to the Pawcatuck River; thence southerly bounded by river, bounded easterly by Sweet, land now owned by distance of 137 1/2 feet, more or less, to a fence which runs in an easterly and westerly direction thence southerly, bounded easterly by Sweet, land now owned by distance of 200 feet, more or less, to a fence following said fence southerly to a point on the boundary of Sweet, land now owned by distance of 200 feet; thence in a southeasterly direction a distance of 200 feet; thence in a southeasterly direction to an electric light pole set in the ground; said pole being 39 feet, more or less, south of the boundary of Sweet, land now owned by distance of 135 feet, more or less to another electric light pole set in the ground; said pole being on the boundary of Sweet land thence in a northeasterly direction a distance of 135 feet, more or less to another electric light pole set in the ground; said pole being on the northernly boundary line of Sweet land thence southerly bounded by Sweet, land now owned by distance of 200 feet; thence northerly bounded by Ford and family of Alfred and Richard L. Ford; thence southerly, bounded easterly by said Richard L. Ford, bounded westerly by Sweet, land now owned by distance of 137 1/2 feet, more or less to point of beginning. Meaning and intending to convey the premises conveyed by deed from Robert Laine and Vera Laine to Hanna Marttila by deed dated December 13, 1933 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of Charlestown, Book 23, page 120, and also, by deed from George W. Cross, Collector of Taxes, to these Grantors dated July 20th, 1935 and recorded in said Land Evidence Records in Book 26, page 351. Reference to said deeds and the records thereof being hereunto had and made and the same made a part hereof for a more complete and particular description of the hereby conveyed premises. WITNESS our hands this 15th day of September, 1938. FRANCIS H. FORD KATHERINE A. FORD STATE OF RHODE ISLAND } County of Washington } In Charlestown on the 15th day of September, 1938 before me personally appeared Francis H. Ford and Katherine A. Ford, 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 15th, A. D. 1938 at 1:30 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.