The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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1/26/1954 · DEED · book 34 page 28 doc 3729@34/28

From CHASE DONALD H, CHASE ETHEL, CLARKE FRED W EST
To COOK LLOYD E
Premises lot on easterly side of Pawcatuck River at Harnickville (Harnickville, Charlestown, Pawcatuck River)

Back — where this land came from

deed Ira Kenyon book 16 p 28 Charlestown
“conveyed to George Burdick by Ira Kenyon as appears of record in Book 16, page 28”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma
will William Clarke
“conveyed by Fred W. Clarke... under the will of William Clarke”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1954 · MORTGAGE · COOK LLOYD E → INDUSTRIAL TRUST CO · book 34 p 31
▶ 1961 · DEED · COOK CHRISTINE E; COOK LLOYD E; COOK NATHANIEL R → COOK LLOYD E · book 37 p 554
▶ 1961 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → PUCELLA ANTHONY N; PUCELLA ROYALIE J · book 37 p 574
▶ 1965 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE; COOK LLOYD E; HALE JANET; HALE NORMAN F → SILKS DORIS; SILKS THURMAN · book 40 p 422
▶ 1966 · DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E; NEW YORK CITY OF; → COOK LLOYD E; COOK CATHERINE A · book 41 p 240
▶ 1966 · DEED · COOK LLOYD E → COOK LLOYD E; COOK CATHERINE A · book 41 p 326
▶ 1969 · AGREEMENT · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO · book 43 p 227
▶ 1969 · MORTGAGE · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → WESTERLY COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION · book 43 p 384
▶ 1970 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → MEGREW HAROLD R; MEGREW PHYLLIS L · book 44 p 57
▶ 1976 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → MARSELLA ALFRED; MARSELLA EMILIENE E · book 55 p 16
▶ 1978 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → SEEMANN DIANE L; SEEMANN WILLIS E · book 59 p 536
▶ 1982 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → COOK SANDRA J; COOK GEOFFREY A · book 69 p 50
▶ 1984 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → DUNN'S CORNERS FIRE DISTRICT · book 77 p 815
▶ 1987 · DEED · COOK CATHERINE A; COOK LLOYD E → SEEMAN DIANE; SEEMAN WILLIS · book 92 p 806
▶ 1994 · DEED · COOK LLOYD E → COOK CATHERINE A · book 140 p 224

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
28 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, ETHEL CHASE, of Pawcatuck, in the Town of Stonington, County of New London and State of Connecticut, daughter of Fred W. Clarke, late of said Pawcatuck, deceased for consideration paid, grant to LLOYD E. COOK of the Town of Hopkinton, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) A certain lot or parcel of land situated on the easterly side of the Pawcatuck River at Harnickville, so-called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning two (2) rods below the line of dam at said Harnickville Street, from thence running northerly upstream the River in a course so as to strike just eighty (80) feet west in the River; from thence westerly in a distance of one hundred fifty-eight (158) feet; from thence easterly seven witness a stone marker (164') eighty-one (81) feet to a stone marker in the fence; thence northerly one hundred ninety feet (190') to a stone marker in the fence; to the ground just ninety (90') fifty seven (57) feet; from thence easterly in a line to the water westerly ninety (90') feet to the place of beginning. Being the same premises conveyed to George Burdick by Ira Kenyon as appears of record in Book 16, page 28 of the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown and being a part of the premises conveyed by Fred W. Clarke, late of said Pawcatuck, Connecticut, deceased, under the will of William Clarke, late of Hopkinton, deceased. There is included in this conveyance all and singular the water and rip- arian rights and privileges of every kind, nature and description which be- longing to, said Fred W. Clarke, and his predecessors in title, and in which any apparent way to belonged to, said Fred W. Clarke, and his predecessors in title, also, with any and all right, title, interest, claim or demand which I have or may have in any way in any other real estate with all the appurtenances thereof situated in said Town of Charles- town, acquired by said Fred W. Clarke under the will of said William Clarke. The circumstances surrounding the execution and delivery of this deed are such that no revenue stamps are required. I, DONALD H. CHASE husband of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of courtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 25 day of January 1954. ETHEL CHASE DONALD H. CHASE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Westerly on the 25 day of January, 1954 before me personally appeared Ethel Chase and Donald H. Chase, husband and wife, to me known and known by me to be the parties execut- ing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free and deed act. HERBERT W. RATHBUN Notary Public. Received for record January 26th, A. D. 1954 at 10:40 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Seal] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

page 1

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.