The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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7/20/1956 · DEED · book 35 page 388 doc 5000@35/388

From DOWNEY MARY ELIZABETH, DOWNEY ROBERT
To DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOC
Premises 38 acres · Tract bounded by Narragansett Electric easement, Pasquitt Path, and lands of Hunt and Clark (Charlestown)

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

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

▶ 1963 · MORTGAGE · DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOC → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 39 p 68
▶ 1971 · AGREEMENT · DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOC; DOWNEY-WEAVER POST NO 34 AMERICAN L → NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY; NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO · book 45 p 9
▶ 1974 · MORTGAGE · DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOC → PETTAQUAMSCUTT CREDIT UNION · book 50 p 252

The instrument's own words

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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. Williams and Mary Williams witness 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 83° 00' West, a distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 00' East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of the "Downey-Weaver" right-of-way; thence running northerly, bounded easterly by said Pasquitt Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running north 83° 00' West, a distance of 40 feet along the said easement, a distance of Three Hundred Seven and 4/10 (307.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; easterly by said easement and westerly, now or 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, 30 feet in width, from the premises hereby conveyed to the center line 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 the Downey-Weaver Post Building Parcel #4, Jamison Edition, Charlestown, R.I., C. A. Bounds, Engrs., Scale 1" = 80", March 1956, reference plat being filed in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown; reference to said plat being hereby had and made 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 right of dower and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. WITNESSED 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. ARNOLD 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. Williams and Mary Williams witness 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 83° 00' West, a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the westerly side of the "Downey-Weaver" right-of-way; thence running northerly, bounded easterly by said Pasquitt Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running north 83° 00' West, along the center line of said easement, a distance of Three Hundred Seven and 4/10 (307.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line of said easement; easterly by said Pasquitt Path; westerly by land, now or formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark.
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389 The Grantees, its successors and assigns, are hereby granted a right-of-way, in common with others, for all purposes, thirty (30) feet in width, from the premises hereby conveyed to the State Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned. This conveyance is made subject to easements of the Narragansett Electric Company of record in the Records of the Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown. The hereof described premises being more particularly described and shown on plat entitled Preliminary Survey Map of Land for Downey-Weaver Post #4, American Legion, Charlestown, R.I., by C. A. Rounds, Engr., Scale 1" = 80' dated March 14, 1956, recorded in plat book [?] plat page [?] in the Town of Charlestown; reference to said plat being here made and for a more complete and detailed description of the premises the above hereby conveyed. I, Mary Downey wife of the grantor, do hereby release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands this 3rd day of March 1956. ROBERT DOWNEY MARY ELIZABETH DOWNEY STATE of MARYLAND, etc.) County of Allegany ) I in Cumberland on the 3rd day of March, 1956 before me personally appeared Robert Downey and Mary Downey and Mary Downey to me known and by me known and 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. D. W. MAGRUDER (Notarial Seal) Notary Public My Commission expires May 8, 1957. STATE OF MARYLAND } COUNTY OF ALLEGANY } JOSEPH B. BODEN, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Maryland, the same being a court of record of the aforesaid county, having by law a seal, do hereby certify that D. W. Magruder, Esquire, whose name is subscribed above as Notary Public, is a Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn and residing in said county, and was, as such, an officer of said state, duly authorized by the laws of said state to take and administer oaths and certify acknowledgments, the proper and authentic assignment of deeds and other instruments in writing to be recorded in said state, and that the preceding all handwriting is the handwriting of said Notary Public, and I do hereby certify and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his certificate, and believing the signature to the attached seal to be his well and genuinely signature, and that the laws of this State do not require the filing of seal impressions. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 16th day of July 1956. JOSEPH B. BODEN (L. S.) Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Cumberland, Maryland Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:19 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk ---- STATUTORY QUIT-CLAIM DEED We, Walter Baker, Ernest G. B. Champion, Frank H. Cornell, Edwin Derry, James Finnie, Louis J. Galmiche, Glenn F. Godden, Ellison Hilton, Joseph J. Johnson, Sherwood Kenyon, Richard Larkin, Charles W. Linak, Eugene C. O'Donnell, Leo E. O'Donnell, Roland E. Richards, William A. Smith, Kurt Sonntag, Arthur Sweet, George A. Teamey, Jr, Joseph H. Tougas and Wallace E. Travis 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 That certain tract or parcel of land, containing 30 acres, more or less, situate and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:

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