The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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6/26/1954 · MORTGAGE · book 34 page 177 doc 3882@34/177

From RICHMOND ADELAIDE B
To THORP HOWARD E life
Premises none · land with summer cottage at Quonocutong (Charlestown, Quonocutong Pond)

Back — where this land came from

deed Richard L. Barber book 29 p 224 Charlestown
“conveyed to this mortgagor by Richard L. Barber by deed dated June 1st, 1944”
◀ Follow back 1944 · MORTGAGE · RICHMOND ADELAIDE B; RICHMOND FREDERICK R → THORP HOWARD E · book 29 p 224
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1944 · DEED · BARBER RICHARD LEWIS; BARBER HOPE M → RICHMOND ADELAIDE B · book 29 p 223

Forward — where this land went

⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The assessor does not cite book 34 page 177 (its history for each parcel goes back only a few transfers). The index is complete to 1987, but only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), and nothing after 1965 has been, so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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177 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown, on the 24th day of June, 1954, before me personally appeared Herman W. O. Wright and Caroline I. Wright, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record June 24th, A. D. 1954 at 3:15 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk ---- MORTGAGE DEED I, ADELAIDE B. RICHMOND of East Greenwich, County of Kent and State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to HOWARD E. THORP of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of Four Thousand Five Hundred ($4500) Dollars with interest at Five (5%) per centum, per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith. (Description, and Incumbrances, and if any) A certain tract or parcel of land situated in the Town of Charlestown, at Quonocutong, so called, in said County of Washington, with summer cottage and other improvements thereon, including the furnishings therewith, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the point on the easterly shore of Quonocutong Pond, said pond, being the northeasterly corner of the tract hereby conveyed and the southeasterly corner of land of the estate of John R. Taylor; thence running easterly bounded northerly by said Taylor land 251 feet to a proposed street, then northerly 130 feet to the center of said proposed street; thence running west 130 feet, thence westerly in a line 130 feet distant from and parallel to said street, thence westerly a distance of 251 feet to the shore of said pond; thence southerly, following the shore of said pond to the said point thence southerly, following the shore of said pond to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. Also a right of way in common with others for ingress and egress only, over and across a certain ten foot parcel of land, bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of a stub in the grounding at the northeasterly corner of land formerly known as Co. Taylor; thence running northerly 350 feet, more or less, to a drill hole in a concrete sea wall and continuing to the sea; thence running southerly 10 feet to the center of a highway; then in a line parallel with the easterly boundary hereinbefore described and ten feet distant therefrom to the northeasterly corner of land of the estate of Sophia M. Dowland; thence running east to the point and place of beginning; bounded easterly by land of Lila C. Crappy, southerly by the ocean or sea or tide, and northerly by land of Sophia M. Dowland. Together with the right to cross and recross at all times over and across a right of way extending from the premises above described to the ocean or sea or tide across land of Sophia M. Dowland and Emma R. Dow. Meaning and intending to convey the same premises and privileges as conveyed to this mortgagor by Richard L. Barber by deed dated June 1st, 1944, and duly recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown, and this mortgage as amended by a certain codicil dated June 10, 1944 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book #29 at Page #224. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. I, Frederick R. Richmond husband of the mortgagor, release to the mortgagee all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 25th day of June, 1954. ADELAIDE B. RICHMOND FREDERICK R. RICHMOND In presence of:
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178 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown on the 25th day of June, 1954, before me personally appeared Frederick R. Richmond and Adelaide B. Richmond, 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. PAUL M. KEARNEY (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record June 26th, A. D. 1954 at 11:20 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk (FOR DISCHARGE OF FOREGOING MORTGAGE, SEE PAGE 500) ---- I, RICHARD E. HOLLAND, of Richmond, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to FRANK L. FITZGERALD and ALVA L. FITZGERALD, husband and wife, both of the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain parcel or tract of land, situated and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of the Town Highway, commonly called "Old Mill Road", at the southeasterly corner of the premises called "Old Mill Road", and at the southeasterly corner of premises, now or heretofore, of German [?] at the southeasterly corner of [?] then running westerly bounded southerly by said Town Highway, a distance of 350 feet, then turning northerly and running westerly bounded northerly by a line of 125 feet distant from and running easterly to a point, a distance of 350 feet, thence running north and parallel to said Wright land, a distance of 350 feet, thence running east and turning easterly bounded northerly by a line of 125 feet distant from the centerline of said Wright land at the northeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed, thence turning southerly, bounded easterly by said Town Highway and Wright land, a distance of 350 feet to the point and place of beginning. Bounded westerly and northerly by land of Frances Mayo, easterly by said Wright land and southerly by said Town Highway, or however otherwise the same may be bounded on the ground. Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by deed of James Mayo and Frances Mayo to Richard S. Holland and Pearl E. Holland as joint tenants and not as tenants in common; said deed bearing date of September 30th, 1943 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 29 at Page 131. I, Richard E. Holland, hereby covenant that said Pearl E. Holland has since deceased and that I am the surviving Grantee mentioned in the aforesaid deed. I, Elsie M. Holland, wife of the Grantor, release unto said Grantees, all my right of dower and all other interest and in to the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands this 24th day of June, 1954. RICHARD E. HOLLAND ELSIE M. HOLLAND Consideration of this Deed is $ [?], such that no Revenue Stamps required. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown, on the 24th day of June, 1954, before me personally appeared Richard E. Holland and Elsie M. Holland, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record June 25th, A. D. 1954 at 3:50 o'clock, P. 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.