The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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12/24/1955 · DEED · book 35 page 216 doc 4805@35/216

From LEE DOROTHY V
To ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN life, ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS life
Premises not stated · Tract with buildings and improvements bounded by South Arnold Rhode Ave (Charlestown, Watchogue Pond, Watchogue Heights)

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

◀ 1939 · DEED · ARNOLD BARBARA V → LEE DOROTHY V · book 28 p 128
◀ 1955 · MORTGAGE · ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN; ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS → LEE DOROTHY V · book 35 p 217
◀ 1927 · DEED · ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N → LEE DOROTHY V; ARNOLD BARBARA V · book 23 p 54
◀ 1927 · DEED · ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N → LEE DOROTHY V; ARNOLD BARBARA V · book 22 p 469

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

▶ 1977 · DEED · ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS → ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS TR · book 57 p 116
▶ 1980 · DEED · ARNOLD C JOHN; ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN → MAHONY MARGA LEE · book 63 p 812
▶ 1955 · MORTGAGE · ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN; ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS → LEE DOROTHY V · book 35 p 217
▶ 1981 · AGREEMENT · ARNOLD ELINOR ST JOHN; ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS → ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS TR · book 65 p 120
▶ 1981 · MORTGAGE · ARNOLD C JOHN; ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN; ARNOLD ELINOR ST JOHN TRUST AG → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 65 p 121
▶ 1986 · DEED · ARNOLD LEMUEL H; ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS → ARNOLD LEMUEL HASTINGS FAMILY; LEMUEL HASTINGS ARNOLD FAMILY; ARNOLD E · book 90 p 440

The instrument's own words

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216 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, DOROTHY V. LEE (a widow) of 3542 Newark Street, Washington 16, D. C., (hereinafter called the "Grantor"), in consideration of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other valuable considerations to me paid by LEMUEL HASTINGS ARNOLD of 4448 Marne Avenue, North Hollywood, California, and CHRISTOPHER JOHN ARNOLD of 9 Styve- sant Oval, New York, N. Y., (hereinafter called the "Grantees"), the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Grantees and their heirs and assigns forever A certain tract of land with buildings, furniture, household equipment and improvements thereon, situated in said Charlestown, containing approximately more or less, and bounded as follows: beginning at a stone bound #1, on the south side of South Arnold Rhode Ave where it is intersected by a road running from the landly of the former State of Rhode Island for fourteen 1/2 feet (14 1/2 feet) to the center of said road; thence southeasterly one hundred seventy one feet (171 feet) to a stone bound #2, twenty (20) feet south of the shoreline of the pond (150 feet to a stone bound #3); from bound #2, easterly twenty hundred seventy-five feet (275 feet) to a stone bound #3; from bound #3, easterly twenty hundred seventy-five feet (275 feet) to a stone bound #4; from bound #4, south east one hundred twenty five feet (125 feet), and northerliesterly to the point of beginning at stone bound #1 but keeping ten 1 (1) foot from the center of said road leaving a right of way for the public and further together with the right of way to the shore of Watchogue Pond or Bay and the right to the use of the village road leading from South Arnold Rhode Ave to the ocean beach over the lands of the Estate of Thomas L. Arnold and the private right of way leading from the said village road to the ocean beach over the lands of the Estate of Thomas L. Arnold and the private right of way leading from the said village road to the ocean beach as described in the Recording 1936, Book twenty (20) feet north of the large barnhouse which was formerly owned by the late Thomas L. Arnold, and the private roads and those of Watchogue Heights, with a convenient right of way to the shore of Watchogue Pond over the lands of the Estate of Thomas L. Arnold. Together with the right to the Grantees, their heirs and assigns to maintain a pipe line to the aforementioned well and to use water therefrom as needed. Subject, however, to a convenient right of way by foot path or pony over and near the south east part of the south east corner of the Estate of Thomas L. Arnold in the South Arnold Rhode Ave. Subject further, to a purchase money mortgage in the sum of Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) of date herewith given by the Grantees to the Grantor in part payment of the purchase price and intended to be recorded simultaneously herewith. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid premises as equal shares as tenants in common, intending hereby to convey all of my right, title and interest to the Grantees, namely Christopher J. Arnold at Arnold by the lands of the late Thomas L. Arnold, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging unto and to the use of the Grantees, their heirs and assigns forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal as of this 9th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five. In the presence of Edward Gray Donald I. Hamilton DOROTHY V. LEE (L.S.) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) SS.: WASHINGTON ) In Washington, D. C., on the 16th day of December 1955, personally appeared DOROTHY V. LEE, to me known and known to me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument executed by her to be her free act and deed. (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $6.60) A. S. MEINERS (Notarial Seal) Notary Public My Commission expires October 31, 1957 Received for record December 24th, A. D. 1955 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] 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.