The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 2326@31/581

1/20/1954 · RELEASE · book 31 page 581 doc 2326@31/581

From BLISS CHARLES C life
To BERESFORD CORA K, BERESFORD ERNEST R
Premises Lot 39 of The Lea Colony (Charlestown, South Kingstown)
Index description 31/581
Also on this page: MORTGAGE BLISS CHARLES C

Back — where this land came from

deed Marie Rose Yvonne Bezhme book 27 p 597 Charlestown
“conveyed by deed from Marie Rose Yvonne Bezhme to Ernest R. Beresford bearing date of March 3, 1938”
◀ Follow back 1939 · MORTGAGE · TAYLOR HARRIS W → GUERNSEY HOWARD M · book 27 p 597
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1950 · MORTGAGE · COVE POINT INC → BLISS CHARLES C; BLISS JESSIE W · book 32 p 329
◀ 1949 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 31 p 488
◀ 1949 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 31 p 581
◀ 1947 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 30 p 428
◀ 1947 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 30 p 626
◀ 1946 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 30 p 34
◀ 1946 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 30 p 111
◀ 1944 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 29 p 283
◀ 1939 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERENST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 27 p 575
◀ 1938 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → BLISS CHARLES C · book 27 p 288
◀ 1937 · MORTGAGE · MEE TIMOTHY J; MEE HELEN S → BLISS CHARLES C · book 27 p 147

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1964 · DEED · BEHNEKE MARIE ROSE YVONNE; BEHNEKE NORMAN L → EMILIO ALBERT P; EMILIO NANCY N · book 39 p 581
“designated as Lot No. 10 on the Map of Sea Colony, recorded in Land Evidence Book 31, page 581”
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

▶ 1954 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → INDUSTRIAL TRUST CO · book 34 p 21
▶ 1954 · MORTGAGE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → UNITED STATES OF AMERICA · book 34 p 344
▶ 1955 · DEED · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → COE ANNIE · book 35 p 165
▶ 1955 · DEED · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → NYE MARY B; NYE STEPHEN H W · book 35 p 179
▶ 1955 · DEED · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → MACLEAN AGNES; MACLEAN DONALD E · book 35 p 184
▶ 1955 · DEED · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → ERICKSON VERA H · book 35 p 191
▶ 1963 · RELEASE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → NYE MARY B; NYE STEPHEN H W · book 35 p 180
▶ 1965 · RELEASE · BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R → JERUE LILA M; JERUE THOMAS E · book 30 p 184

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
581 MORTGAGE DEED We, ERNEST R. BERESFORD and CORA K. BERESFORD, husband and wife, both of the Town of South Kingstown, County of "Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES C. BLISS, of said Town, County and State, with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of TWO THOUSAND (2000) Dollars in five (5) years with interest at six (6%) per centum, per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith. (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) That certain real estate, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Lot Number Thirty-nine (39) as laid out on that certain plan or plat entitled "The Lea Colony in Charlestown and South Kingstown, R. I., Property of W. T. Beresford" showing the Approximate Area of Sea Lot Chas. G. Child, Surveyed and Platted 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938 - Leon L. Holland, Civil Engineer, Rhode I. Licensed Surveyor, as Recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Town of "Charlestown. Being one of the lots of land conveyed by deed from Marie Rose Yvonne Bezhme to Ernest R. Beresford bearing date of March 3, 1938 and recorded in Book 27 at Page 597. This conveyance is subject to the rights, privileges and conditions contained in said deed and entitled to all benefits and privileges contained therein. We, Ernest R. Beresford and Cora K. Beresford, release to said mortgagee all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in and to the aforementioned premises. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. WITNESS our hands this 18th day of July 1949. In presence of: Linton L. Brown ERNEST R. BERESFORD CORA K. BERESFORD STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown on the 18th day of July, 1949 before me personally appeared Ernest R. Beresford and Cora K. Beresford, 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 July 26th, A. D. 1949 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE The undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage recorded in the Town of Charlestown Records of Land Evidence in the State of Rhode Island, in Book 27 page 581, hereby cancel and discharge the same. And covenant to and with the payer that I as the present owner of said mortgage. WITNESS this 19th day of January 1954. CHARLES C. BLISS Jessie W. Bliss Received for record January 20th, A. D. 1954 at 3:10 c'lock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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