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2/14/1938 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 27 page 245 doc 38@27/245

From WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY CO-EXECUTOR, BELL WILLIAM CLARKE CO-EXECUTOR life, BELL LOUIS F ESTATE OF life
To SAFFORD HARVEY C, HIMES LAURA B
Premises part of the mortgaged premises known as the Car Lot (Charlestown Pond, Point Meadows, Point Chapman)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE CAMPBELL FRANK H

Back — where this land came from

mortgage Harvey C. Stafford
“mortgage to Laura B. Mines, dated November 8, 1933, recorded... in mortgage at page 224”
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

▶ 1938 · MORTGAGE · SAFFORD HARVEY C → HIMES LAURA B · book 27 p 243
▶ 1938 · MORTGAGE · SAFFORD HARVEY C → CAMPBELL FRED T · book 27 p 335
▶ 1939 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → BROWN LINTON L · book 28 p 31
▶ 1939 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → PER LEE JAMES S · book 27 p 580
▶ 1941 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → PER LEE FRED E · book 28 p 465
▶ 1941 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → WATTS CHARLES E · book 28 p 511
▶ 1941 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → WATTS CHARLES E · book 28 p 532
▶ 1943 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → PER LEE JAMES S · book 29 p 60
▶ 1944 · DEED · SAFFORD HARVEY C → WATTS CHARLES E · book 29 p 199
▶ 1945 · DEED · SAFFORD DORIS E; SAFFORD HARVEY C → OWENS WILLIAM E · book 29 p 566
▶ 1945 · DEED · SAFFORD DORIS E; SAFFORD HARVEY C → OWENS GLADYS; OWENS THOMAS · book 29 p 567
▶ 1945 · DEED · SAFFORD DORIS E; SAFFORD HARVEY C → WATTS CHARLES E · book 29 p 593
▶ 1947 · DEED · SAFFORD DORIS E; SAFFORD HARVEY C → DOYLE BERTHA M; DOYLE KENNETH H · book 30 p 420
▶ 1949 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · HIMES LAURA B → SAFFORD HARVEY C · book 27 p 243
▶ 1949 · DEED · SAFFORD DORIS E; SAFFORD HARVEY C → BEMIS FREDERICK E; BEMIS RUTH C · book 31 p 520
▶ 1949 · MORTGAGE · SAFFORD HARVEY C → GRINNELL LEON M · book 31 p 663

The instrument's own words

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Know All Men By These Presents that we, the Wakefield Trust Company, and William Clarke Ball, Co-Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Louis F. Bell, the holder of a mortgage to Laura B. Mines, dated November 8, 1933, recorded in the Records of Deeds in Charlestown County of Washington State of Rhode Island in mortgage at page 224, for consideration paid release, to Laura B. Mines of the City of Cranston, State of Rhode Island all interest accrued under said mortgage in the following described portion of the mortgaged premises: FIRST PARCEL: a certain tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the shore of Charlestown Pond at the wall between "Point Meadows" and "Point Chapman" easterly 100 feet along said wall, then southerly 100 feet on the west line of land of Seth L. Malley to another wall; thence easterly said wall 100 feet to fence then southerly parallel with said first mentioned wall 100 feet and westerly (61) feet to fence then southerly parallel with said first mentioned wall and westerly (61) feet from the shore of Charlestown Pond to the shore of Charlestown Pond, then westerly and on the easterly lot by other land of the mortgagor comes as the Car Lot and the lot respectively; thence easterly 100 feet to the point of beginning. The above described parcel is the part of the mortgaged premises known as the Car Lot. The purpose of this partial release is to relieve the above described property from any possible lien which may be given by the aforesaid mortgage made by Harvey C. Stafford to Louis F. Bell, through an error in the description. WITNESS our hand this first day of February of 1935. L. P. B. WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY by Everett J. Bateman, Trust Officer William Clarke Ball, Co-Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Louis F. Bell. (L. S.) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND County of Washington SS. In our South Kingstown on the first day of February, 1935 before me personally appeared Everett J. Bateman and William Clarke Ball, both to me then and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that they signed, instrument, in their capacity as executors and ex-executors u/w Louis F. Bell. to be their free act and deed. individually and as executors u/w Louis F. Bell. PERCIVAL W. GARDNER, Notary Public. Received for record February 14th, A. D. 1935 at 9:10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, LEONOR ARNOLD, residing at 95 Highland Avenue, Pelham Manor, New York, THOMAS L. ARNOLD, residing at Charlestown, Rhode Island and the WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Rhode Island, having an office in the transaction of business at westerly, Rhode Island, as executors and Trustees under the Last Will and Testament of Thomas L. Arnold, deceased, do hereby acknowledge and certify that we have received full payment and satisfaction of a certain mortgage for Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) given by LEONOR ARNOLD to us as executors and Trustees, dated May 4th of October, 1924, and recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Charlestown, in Book 21, at page 249, with mortgage discharge dated the 2nd day of February, 1935, recorded in said Book, June 1, 1929, and recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Charlestown, in Book 21, at page 214, and we hereby release and discharge the said mortgage and covenant to perform with and to the premises making payment that we are the present owners of said mortgage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereunto set our hands and seals, this 3rd day of February, 1935. In the presence of: [Signature] S. Sterbekovs Max Ward Robert J. Calhous Robert A. Lovell Attest: James W. Shaw, Auditor, LEONOR ARNOLD THOMAS L. ARNOLD (L. S.) (L. S.) THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY by Thomas Perry Vice Pres. As executor and Trustee under the last will and Testament of Thomas L. Arnold, deceased. (L. S.) STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK SS. On this 3rd day of February, 1935 personally appeared before me LEONOR ARNOLD, of Pelham Manor, New York, one of the executors of under the last will and Testament of Thomas L. Arnold, deceased, known to me to be one of the persons who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged that she signed, instrument, and deed. IN WITNESS WHEROF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal At New York City, New York, the day and year first above written. Walter S. Robinson Walter S. Robinson - Notary Public Kings County Clerk's No. 545, Reg. No. 9239 N.Y. Co. Clerk's No. 669, Reg. No. 9-R-418 Commission expires March 30, 1939.

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.