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3/28/1895 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 11 page 158 doc 4823

From FOSTER NATHAN K life, FOSTER ABBY F life
To BROWNING EMMA A life
Consideration three hundred and twenty one dollars and fifty one cents
Premises none · premises described in said mortgage deed (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED FOSTER NATHAN K

Back — where this land came from

will Jonathan H. Foster
“by the will of my father the late Jonathan H. Foster”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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deed Jonathan H. Foster
“by a deed from my hand dated this 22 day of March 1892 from Jonathan H. Foster”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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mortgage book 18 p 282
“For original motgage see Book No 18 Page 282”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1885 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; PETERS JOSEPH DECEASED → FOSTER NATHAN K · book 11 p 317
◀ 1883 · DEED · BROWNING EMMA A → FOSTER NATHAN K · book 11 p 158

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

▶ 1896 · DEED · BROWNING JOSEPH L; BROWNING EMMA A → BROWNING JOHN B · book 13 p 284
▶ 1900 · DEED · TUCKER JOHN; BROWNING EMMA A; TUCKER SARAH G; BROWNING WALTER E → TUCKER JANE ADELINE · book 14 p 124
▶ 1911 · DEED · BROWNING EMMA A → ARNOLD FRANK W · book 17 p 130

The instrument's own words

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158 State of Rhode Island &c Washington ss In Charlestown in said county on this sixth day of May AD 1888 the above named Abel S. Stanford personally appeared before me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed. And then and there the above named Susan M. Stanford also personally appeared before me, and being by me examined privately and apart from her said husband acknowledged the same instrument shown and explained to her, by me, to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and declared to me that she did not wish to retract the same, George Le Grosse John Leluks Received for record June 7th 1888 at 12 oclock PM and recorded by George Le Grosse Town Clerk Know all men that I Emma A. Browning the assignee of the mortgagee named in the foregoing mortgage for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and twenty one dollars and fifty one cents being the amount of debt and interest now due on the debt secured by said mortgage well and truly paying by Jonathan H. Foster of Charlestown the penalty of forty shillings to the State of Rhode Island the legal right whereof I do hereby actually do hereby grant, assign transfer and set over to said Jonathan H. Foster hereby sells and assigns forever the premises described in said mortgage deed together with all my right title and interest therein above to the debt secured thereby to have and to hold the same to the said Jonathan H. Foster, his heirs, executors administrators and assigns forever, as an ample answer as I the said Emma A. Browning might hold and enjoy by virtue of said mortgage deed as assignee of said mortgagee. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of June AD 1883 In presence of George Le Grosse Emma A. Browning L.S. State of Rhode Island &c Washington ss In Charlestown on this 30th day of June 1883 Emma A. Browning personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing instrument they her signed to be her free act & deed George Le Grosse John Leluks Received for record June 30th 1883 at 2 oclock PM and recorded by George Le Grosse Town Clerk [Marginalia]: I’m now the owner of the above described premises by the will of my father the late Jonathan H. Foster and by a deed from my hand dated this 22 day of March 1892 from Jonathan H. Foster Abby S. Foster For original motgage see Book No 18 Page 282
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239 i Being the same premises conveyed by Hiram L. Wright and Florence A. Wright to said John Herbert Gardiner and Mabel I. Gardiner as Joint Tenants by Warranty Deed dated September 19, 1950 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown in Book No. 25, page 269. And being the same premises previously conveyed by Frank E. Dickey and Theodore V. Dickey to said Hiram L. Wright and Florence A. Wright by Deed dated April 28, 1949 and recorded in said Land Evidence Records in Deed dated April 28, 1949 in Book No. 15, page 495. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. WITNESS our hands and seals this 10th day of September, 1955. Melva E. Murphy JOHN HERBERT GARDINER John Herbert Gardiner Melva E. Murphy MABEL I. GARDINER Mabel I. Gardiner STATE of RHODE ISLAND COUNTY of WASHINGTON In Westerly, on the 10th day of September, 1955, before me personally appeared John Herbert Gardiner and Mabel I. Gardiner, husband and wife, 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. JOSEPH LEWIS (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record January 18th, A. D. 1956 at 9:10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE Westerly Community Credit Union, having received full payment and Satisfaction of the proc- issory note secured by the will with the mortgage recorded in the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, in the Land Evidence Records in Book 25, pages 268-269, hereby cancels and discharges in the same and covenants to and with the payer that it is the present owner of said mortgage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF Westerly Community Credit Union has caused this instrument to be executed by Joseph Lewis, its treasurer, duly authorized, who hereunto sets his hand in his official capacity and affixes it its corporate seal this 26th day of September, 1956. WESTERLY COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION (Corporate Seal) By Joseph Lewis Joseph Lewis, Treasurer Received for record October 1st, A. D. 1956 at 11:15 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk STATUTORY FORM OF WARRANTY DEED. CHARLESTOWN ESTATES, INC., a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, and having a place of business in the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to HENRY C. CARTER and MABEL E. CARTER, husband and wife, both of the City of Cranston, County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, as joint tenants and not tenants in common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY CONVEYANCE. Two certain tracts or parcels of land located on the easterly side of Upland Road, so called, at Quonocuttang Beach in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: Lots #416 and #418 as shown and delineated on a certain plan filed in the office entitled, "Plat of an East Beach at Quonocuttang, 1, 1, property of S. B. Davis, Inc." drawn by L. Roland, filed State of Rhode Island, which equals 100 feet, revised July, 1931." Said plat being duly filed in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown, and are bounded as follows: bounded on the north and northerly by other land of these grantees, easterly by other land of this grantor, and westerly and southerly by Upland Road so called. In consideration of the purchase price it is understood and agreed that the following restrictions and reservations shall apply to and run with the land for a period of twenty years from January 1, 1952.

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.