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1/20/1939 · FORCLOSURE DEED · book 27 page 543 doc 35@27/543

From RUSDEN DERRICK P, RUSDEN RICHARD D, CHAPMAN MABEL VOSE DECEASED life, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE, THORP HOWARD E TRUSTEE
To THORP HOWARD E TRUSTEE, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE, CHAPMAN MABEL VOSE DECEASED life
Premises none · residence of Derrick P. Rusden, two story house and outbuildings (Westerly, Washington Street, Church Street)
Index description LOT 9 QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH

Back — where this land came from

mortgage Derrick P. Rusden and Richard D. Rusden book 24 p 111 Westerly
“mortgage given by Derrick P. Rusden and Richard D. Rusden... recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Westerly, in Book 24, page 111”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (other_town)
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1939 · DEED · GOMAN EARL W; GOMAN EDITH B → THORP HOWARD E · book 28 p 98
◀ 1926 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP HATTIE M → RUSDEN DERRICK P; RUSDEN RICHARD D · book 22 p 274
◀ 1939 · MORTGAGE · ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD HARRIET S → ARNOLD LYNDON; ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; WASHINGTON T · book 27 p 531

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

▶ 1939 · FORCLOSURE DEED · CONGDON ETHEL P; CONGDON HAROLD B; CHAPMAN MABEL VOSE DECEASED; WASHIN → CRAPO LILA C · book 27 p 545
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → WHOLEAN HELEN K; WHOLEAN WILLIAM J · book 27 p 559
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → CROUTER FLORENCE L; CROUTER JOHN YALE · book 27 p 586
▶ 1939 · DEED · CHAPMAN MABEL VOSE DECEASED; WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE; THORP H → THORP NELSON H; THORP MARIE N · book 27 p 591
▶ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BROWN FRANK H; THORP HOWARD E → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CROSS WILLIAM D · book 27 p 621
▶ 1939 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BROWN FRANK H; THORP HOWARD E → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CROSS WILLIAM D · book 27 p 622
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → DOWNIE CHARLES E JR · book 27 p 696
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → BARBER RICHARD L · book 28 p 35
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY E → CRAPO LILA C · book 28 p 72
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → TETLOW ESTHER O · book 28 p 87
▶ 1939 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY ELIZABETH → GUERNSEY FLORENCE S · book 28 p 108
▶ 1939 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · LINK CHARLES J; LINK DOROTHY T; ARNOLD THOMAS L; WASHINGTON TRUST COMP → ARNOLD LYNDON; ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; WASHINGTON T · book 28 p 103
▶ 1941 · DEED · ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; ARNOLD LYNDON TRUSTEE; ARNOLD THOMAS L TRUST → MOOK MILDRED K · book 28 p 520
▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · ARNOLD THOMAS L; FROST W LOUIS; ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; WASHINGTON T → ARNOLD EDGAR H; ARNOLD MAY; FIELD FLORENCE ARNOLD; ARNOLD FIELD FLOREN · book 28 p 547
▶ 1943 · DEED · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE; ARNOLD LYNDON TRUSTEE; ARNOLD THOMAS → PENNELL ALEXINE W · book 29 p 79
▶ 1945 · DEED · ARNOLD LYNDON,TR & EXR; ARNOLD THOMAS L,TR & EXR; WASHINGTON TRUST COM → MOOK MILDRED K · book 29 p 347

The instrument's own words

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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND County of Washington In the Town of Westerly in said County, this 26th day of January, A. D. 1939, personally appeared before me the above named Howard S. Thorp, to me personally known and known by me to be one of the Testamentary Trustees under the will of Mabel Vose Chapman, deceased, and known by me to be one of the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him signed, to be his individual free act and deed and his free act and deed as Testamentary Trustee as aforesaid. DAVID ROBERTSON (Notarial Seal) Notary Public. ---- Mortgagee's Sale will be sold at Public Auction on the 27th day of January, 1939, at 2:30 P.M. on the premises, to pay the debt due on a mortgage given by Derrick P. Rusden and Richard D. Rusden to the Wash- ington Trust Company and Howard S. Thorp, as Testamentary Trus- tees under the will of Mabel Vose Chapman, deceased, dated January 16, 1936, and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Westerly, in Book 24, page 111. The premises consist of the residence of said Derrick P. Rusden, and the appurtenances thereof, being a two story house with a dwelling house and other outbuildings, and the land on which the same are situated, located in said County of Washington, and Town of Westerly, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a stone wall on the north side of Washington Street, near the corner of said street and Church Street, bounded on the N. by the land of the First Congre- gational Church, bounded on the E. by the land of the heirs of Ira Moore and Lewis Moore, and on the S. by Washington Street, and on the W. by the land of the said Derrick P. Rusden and Rich- ard D. Rusden. The said house and land are situated in the center of the village of Westerly, and the said house is known as the Rusden house. The said premises are bounded on the N. by the land of the heirs of Ira Moore and Lewis Moore and on the S. by Washington Street. The said premises are more particularly described in the said mortgage, and the same are sold subject to all taxes, assessments, and liens of every kind. The said sale is made by the Trustees under the will of Mabel Vose Chapman, as Mortgagees. The buyer will take the premises subject to the provisions of said mortgage. ERNEST W. MATTHEWS, Attorney at Law, and assignee of THE MORTGAGEE. Westerly, R. I. January 8, 1939. AFFIDAVIT OF SALES UNDER POWER OF SALE IN MORTGAGE. I, THOMAS PERRY, Vice-President and Trust Officer of the Washington Trust Company, Testamentary Trustee under the will of Mabel Vose Chapman, deceased, the mortgagee named in the foregoing deed, affirm and say that the principal and interest obligations mentioned in the mortgage above referred to, were not paid or tendered or performed when due or prior to the sale, and that the said Washington Trust Company and Howard S. Thorp, as Testamentary Trustees as aforesaid, said, published on the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th days of January, 1939, in the westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper printed in said Westerly, in the county of Washington, in accordance with the provisions of said mortgage, a notice of which the following is a true copy: Pursuant to said notice, at the time and place therein appointed, to sit, on January 27, 1939, at 2:30 o'clock P.M., on said premises, said the Washington Trust Company and Howard S. Thorp, as Testamentary Trustees as aforesaid, sold the mortgaged premises at public auction by Robert P. Day, an auctioneer, to said the Washington Trust Company and Howard S. Thorp, as Testamentary Trustees under the will of Mabel Vose Chapman, above named, for Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars, subject to all taxes and assessments, if any, which constitute a lien on said premises, tid by said The Washington Trust Company and Howard S. Thorp, as Testamentary Trustees as aforesaid, being the highest bid made for said premises at said auction. THOMAS PERRY Affirmed to by said Thomas Perry, on this 26th day of January, A. D. 1939, before me, DAVID ROBERTSON (Notarial Seal) Notary Public. Received for record February 20th, A. D. 1939 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] 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.