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Trail: 4778@35/183

11/29/1955 · MISC · book 35 page 183 doc 4778@35/183

From SAUNDERS ALICE B P EST life
To SAUNDERS ALICE B P EST life
Premises none · all the rest and residue of my estate (Hopkinton, Pawtucket, Westerly, Bethlehem)

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

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 35 page 183 (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

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
153 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND &c. PROBATE COURT OF THE County of Washington Town of Hopkinton OFFICE OF THE CLERK --CERTIFICATE-- I, Lawrence W. Kenyon clerk of said Court, having by law the custody of the seal, and all the records, books, documents and papers of or appertaining to said Court, hereby certify that the annexed to be true copies of papers appertaining to said Court, and on file and of record in this office. In attestation whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and have affixed the seal of said Court, this 21st day of November A. D., 1955. LAWRENCE W. KENYON (L.S.) Clerk KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, ALICE B. P. SAUNDERS, of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, ordain, publish and de- clare this as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all previous wills and codicils by me heretofore made, in manner and form as follows, to-wit:- FIRST: I direct my Executor, herein after named, to pay all of my just debts and funeral expenses as soon as possible after my decease. SECOND: I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal and wherever the same may be situated, to my husband, William W. Saunders, if he is living at the time of my decease. THIRD: In the event that my said husband not living at the time of my decease, or if we perish in a common disaster, then I give, devise and bequeath my estate as follows:- (1) To Madeline Saunders Jolly of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the sum of One Thousand Dollars. (2) To a daughter, Rhoda Belle Rilven of Westerly, Rhode Island, the sum of One Thousand Dollars. (3) To my son, Lennon J. Bray of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, all of the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal and wherever the same may be situated. FOURTH: I authorize and empower my Executor, hereinafter named, to mortgage, sell, lease or otherwise convey any of my real or personal estate, whenever it in its sole discretion deems it advisable to do for the best interest of my estate, without applying to any tribunal for such permission. FIFTH: I nominate and appoint the Industrial Trust Company, a Rhode Island corporation, of Providence, Rhode Island as the Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, and I direct that no surety be required on its bond. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st day of August, 1953. ALICE B. P. SAUNDERS Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Testatrix, Alice B. P. Saunders, as and for her Last Will and Testament, in our presence, who, at her request, in her presence and in the presence of each other hereunto set our names as witnesses. Anne E. Ward Harold B. Soloveitzik Received for record November 29th, A. D. 1955 at 10:35 o'Clock, A. 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.