The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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6/11/1955 · DEED · book 35 page 24 doc 4601@35/24

From GAVITT BENJAMIN C life, GAVITT BESSIE C
To WATTS CECIL M, WATTS CHARLES E
Premises Lots 5 and 8 of Crossland Park Section One (Charlestown, Crossland Park Section One)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

◀ 1955 · DEED · KENYON SHERWOOD C; KENYON VIRGINIA N → GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 204
◀ 1946 · DEED · WEBB LEWIS E; WEBB MARY A N → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 30 p 112
◀ 1953 · LEASE · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C; GRINNELL LEON M → GRINNELL LEON M; GAVITT BESSIE C; GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 33 p 529
◀ 1938 · DEED · BROWN STEWART D; BROWN EDNA C; UBERLACKER HELEN B; UBELACKER HELEN B; → GAVITT BESSIE CROSS; CROSS GAVITT BESSIE; GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 27 p 431
◀ 1933 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CASHMAN CHARLES T → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE CROSS · book 24 p 504
◀ 1931 · DEED · BERGER SUSAN → GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 24 p 442
◀ 1926 · LEASE · GAVITT GRACE GREEN → GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 22 p 399

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

▶ 1955 · DEED · WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF PROVIDENCE · book 34 p 528
▶ 1955 · DEED · WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E JR → SQUIER LEONARD K; SQUIER MARGARET B · book 35 p 16
▶ 1957 · DEED · RATHBONE JOAN W; WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E; WATTS CHAS E; RATHBON → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 36 p 77
▶ 1963 · DEED · WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E → DANGELO ANDREW; DANGELO MARY T · book 39 p 38
▶ 1981 · DEED · STAPLETON HARRIET A; WATTS CHARLES E JR → BENOIT M CHRISTINE; GOUIN BRUCE D · book 66 p 393
▶ 1955 · MORTGAGE · WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF PROVIDENCE · book 35 p 150
▶ 1981 · CERTIFICATE · STAPLETON HARRIET A; WATTS CHARLES E → · book 66 p 392

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
24 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, BESSIE C. GAVITT, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES E. WATTS and CECIL M. WATTS, husband and wife, both of said Town, County and State, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS Those certain lots or parcels of land, situate in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, shown and delineated as Lots Numbers 5 (five) and 8 (eight) on that certain plan or plat entitled, "CROSSLAND PARK Section One in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., Property of Bessie C. Gavitt, Surveyed and Platted, Dec., 1954, W. R. Easterbrooks, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 50"; said plat being filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown. Said Lots Numbers 5 and 8 together form one tract bounded as follows: NORTHERLY : by an unnamed Street or way, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, as shown on said plat; EASTERLY : by Lots Numbers 6 and 7, a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet, as shown on said plat; SOUTHERLY : by an unnamed Street, or way, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, as shown on said plat; and WESTERLY : by Lots Numbers 4 and 9, a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet, as shown on said plat. I, Benjamin C. Gavitt, husband of the grantor, release to said Grantees all my right of curtesy and all other interest in and to the aforesaidescribed premises. WITNESS our hands this 4th day of June, 1955. BESSIE C. GAVITT BENJAMIN C. GAVITT (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Charlestown, on the 4th day of June, 1955, before me personally appeared Bessie C. Gavitt and her husband Benjamin C. Gavitt, 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 June 11th, A. D. 1955 at 4:05 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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