The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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5/19/1894 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 11 page 11 doc 4718

From PALMER PETER P life
To CHURCH ELIZABETH life, CHURCH JOSEPH life
Premises none · Tract bounded by Pasquisset Path and land of George P. Clark (Charlestown, Pasquisset Path)

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

◀ 1881 · MORTGAGE · CHURCH JOSEPH C; CHURCH ELIZABETH → PALMER PETER P · book 11 p 10
◀ 1871 · MORTGAGE · DUFFY JOHN → PALMER PETER P · book 10 p 2

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1897 · DEED · COLLINS CHRISTOPHER F; COLLINS CLARISSA → BURDICK HORACE H JR · book 13 p 318
“Being the Premises conveyed to these Grantors by deed from Samuel Browning dated Dec 10, 1877”
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Follow forward ▶ 1906 · DEED · SISSON CARRIE F; SISSON KITCHING JEANNETTE; KITCHING JEANNETTE SISSON → KENYON JAMES S · book 15 p 404
“particularly described in a deed recorded in the Land Records of Charlestown in Book No. 11 at Page 11”
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Follow forward ▶ 1940 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CLARKE SYDNEY W; CLARKE JAMES G; CLARKE S FANNIE; DEIO MANUEL J; DEIO → WALSH JAMES · book 28 p 143
“recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Charlestown in Mortgage page 11 at page 11”
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Follow forward ▶ 1945 · DEED · VANECK BETTY FRANCES BY GUARD → WOODMANCY GLADYS M; WOODMANCY WILLIAM N · book 29 p 359
“Deed Vol 11^th, page 11^th. Dated Dec. 20, 1934.”
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The instrument's own words

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all installments of interest in arrear whether before or after maturity, to bear interest at the rate of [illegible] per cent paid till paid, For these reasons of the lasty grantors or our heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or any other person, for us or for them shall have said note of maturity together with its interest then due, according to the tenor thereof this Deed shall be void by reason whereof she shall be and remain in full force and effect. Furthermore, we the said grantors do hereby convey and appoint the said grantee his executors administrators and assigns, my Attorney irrevocable, with full power of substitution and revocation for us and in our name or names or in their name or names, at any time or times in case default shall be made in the payment of any part or all of the annual interest due thereon and such default shall continue for the space of ten days following the date of maturity the plenipotentiary aforesaid or any part thereof, may give notice of such sell on some one of the publick newspapers printed in this state and in our names or in their names manage, transact, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, any deed or deeds that may be necessary to vest in such purchaser or purchasers a full, and absolute estate in fee simple forever, and on sole inheritancy (thereby granting to our said Attorneys power to continue or acknowledge such sale from time to time, do or not authorize the said Witnesses to release the amount the same may be sold for, and after the payment of all the expenses necessary to such sale or sales, to apply, and appropriate the residue first to the payment of the amount of the principal sum and all interest and void state note by hand, (scoured) hereby agreeing that in case of a partial sale the proportional part in the payment is annual interest the principal part of our said note shall be deemed due and payable on the day of such sale, accordingly to us or our heirs and assigns for all sums over and about the amount thereof we hereby ratifying and confirming such sale or sales as may be made or cause to be made by our plenos hirey in solemnity whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 12th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. [Seal] Signed, Sealed and Delivered In presence of George A. Cross Joseph A. Chace Elizabeth A. Chace George A. Cross Lorenz Leland State of Rhode Island 90 Washington Co, for the town of [illegible] on this 12th day of July 1788 the aforementioned fore a Chace personally appeared of praised before me who after considering the foregoing instrument did sign his name to be his free and voluntary act and deed and then the aforementioned Elizabeth Chace also personally appeared before me and being by me examined and sworn stated from her said husband acknowledged the aforementioned instrument shown to her by her husband, to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and that she did act with to retract the same George A. Cross Lorenz Leland Received for nowd July 18th 1788 at 7 oclock P.M. executed by George A. Cross from the This mortgage is hereby discharged May 19 1894 at ten oclock P.M. In presence of Mary E. Banks P. P. Blinn
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388 BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15' East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly, bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running northwesterly, line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running northwesterly, West 83° 15' East about the same distance, a distance of Three Hundred Seven Seven and 4/10 (707.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; bounded easterly by the center line of the road now and formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark. The Grantee, its successors and assigns, are hereby granted right-of-way, in common with others, for all purposes, in a strip 30 feet in width, from the premises hereby conveyed to the edge of the Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned. This conveyance is made subject to easement of The Narragansett Electric Company of record in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown. The herein described premises being more particularly described and shown on plat entitled "Preliminary Survey of Land of Robert and Elizabeth Downey Plat #14, American Legion, State of Rhode Island, Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, reference Charlestown, R. I., C. A. Bounds, Engrs., Scale 1" = 80' - 30" Square, inserting plat being filed in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown reference to said plat being hereby made and had for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed. I, Pauline Masson, wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my dower of right and all other interest in said aforementioned premises. WITNESSED our hands this 24 day of May 1956. JOHN H. MASSON PAULINE MASSON STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington ) In South Kingstown on the 24th day of May, 1956, before me personally appeared John H. Masson and Pauline Masson 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. DAVID A. ARNOTT Notary Public Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:18 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk I, ROBERT DOWNEY and MARY ELIZABETH DOWNEY of Maryland for consideration paid, grant to DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOCIATION, a non-business corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) That certain tract or parcel of land, containing 38 acres, more or less, situate and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15' East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly, bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running northwesterly, line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running northwesterly, West 83° 15' East about the same distance, a distance of Three Hundred Seven Seven and 4/10 (707.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of said easement; bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path; westerly by land, now and formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark.

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.