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9/15/1956 · DEED · book 35 page 474 doc 5095@35/474

From GAVITT BESSIE C, CROSS GEORGE C EST life
To GAVITT BENJAMIN C life, GAVITT BESSIE C
Premises 32 acres plus others · Six parcels including buildings, marsh, and salt meadow (Charlestown, Port Road, Mill Brook, Deep Sand Pond, Pawcatuck River)

Back — where this land came from

heir George C. Cross
“the only heir-at-law of George C. Cross”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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deed Charles C. Cross book 14 p 364 Charlestown
“conveyed by deed of Charles C. Cross to George C. Cross”
◀ Follow back 1902 · DEED · DOWD EMMA R; DOWD OLNEY B → BARBER SARAH J · book 14 p 364
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1956 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 321
◀ 1955 · RELEASE · RHODE ISLAND STATE OF → CROSS GEORGE C EST · book 2 p 80
◀ 1955 · DEED · KENYON SHERWOOD C; KENYON VIRGINIA N → GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 204
◀ 1953 · LEASE · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C; GRINNELL LEON M → GRINNELL LEON M; GAVITT BESSIE C; GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 33 p 529
◀ 1946 · DEED · WEBB LEWIS E; WEBB MARY A N → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 30 p 112

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ (an instrument we do not hold)
“Being a portion of the premises described as FOURTH TRACT, in that certain deed of Bessie C. Gavitt”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1960 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → HANSEN CHRISTIAN; HANSEN MINNIE A · book 37 p 390
“Being a portion of the premises described as Fourth Wallet, in that certain deed of Beazie C. Gavitt”
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Follow forward ▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → MACK ADA R; MACK RUSSELL O · book 37 p 509
“deed of Bessie C. Gavitt to Bessie C. Gavitt and Benjamin C. Gavitt, as Joint Tenants”
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Follow forward ▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → BROPHY BRENDA; BROPHY EDWARD J · book 37 p 594
“conveyed by Bessie C. Gavitt to Benja C. Gavitt on June 4, 1945”
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Follow forward ▶ 1961 · AGREEMENT · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → GODDEN GLENN F; GODDEN MILDRED L · book 37 p 617
“Deed of Bessie C. Gavitt to Benjamin C. Gavitt et ux., see Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., Deed Book No. 35, Pages 474 and 475.”
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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

▶ 1956 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 321
▶ 1957 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C → RHODE ISLAND STATE OF · book 36 p 130
▶ 1957 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C → GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B · book 36 p 151
▶ 1957 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C → CROSS' MILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT · book 34 p 568
▶ 1957 · AGREEMENT · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C → CROSS' MILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT · book 35 p 684
▶ 1959 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C → MARTIN EMMA S; MARTIN FREDERICK · book 36 p 649
▶ 1960 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → HOLBERTON GLENNA D; HOLBERTON WALTER H · book 37 p 334
▶ 1960 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → HANSEN CHRISTIAN; HANSEN MINNIE A · book 37 p 390
▶ 1960 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → HANSEN CHRISTIAN; HANSEN MINNIE A · book 37 p 432
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → MAIN BERTHA L; MAIN FREDERICK J · book 38 p 34
▶ 1961 · AGREEMENT · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B; GODDEN GLENN F; GODDEN MILDRED L → NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY; WESTERLY AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE CO · book 38 p 77
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → MACK ADA R; MACK RUSSELL O · book 37 p 509
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → HOLBERTON GLENNA D; HOLBERTON WALTER H · book 37 p 536
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → CYR MARION G · book 37 p 544
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → BROPHY BRENDA; BROPHY EDWARD J · book 37 p 594
▶ 1961 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT GLENNA B → GODDEN GLENN F; GODDEN MILDRED L · book 37 p 616

The instrument's own words

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474 KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS, that I, BESSIE C. GAVITT, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, the only heir-at-law of George C. Cross, late of said Town of Charlestown, deceased, for consideration paid grant to myself, the said BESSIE C. GAVITT and to my husband BENJAMIN C. GAVITT, of said Town, County and State, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with QUIT-CLAIM CONVEYANCE Those six (6) parcels or tracts of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: FIRST TRACT: Containing two (2) acres, more or less, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, bounded on the North by the Port Road, on the East by the Mill Brook; on the south by partly land now or formerly of Marie Eve of Plat 13 and partly land now or formerly of Marie Eve or formerly of Marie E. Church and on the west partly by the Town Highway, partly by land now or formerly of John F. Gavit and partly by land now or formerly of Charles C. Cross, or however otherwise bounded and described. SECOND TRACT: Containing thirty (30) acres, more or less, bounded and described as follows: bounded on the North by the old School House Pond and Pike described as following: bounded on the East by Deep Sand Pond and land now or formerly of Oniel Wilcox and on the south by land now or formerly of said Wilcox and land now or formerly of George C. Cross. THIRD TRACT: Being a parcel or tract of marsh and salt meadow land bounded on the north by land now or formerly of S. H. Perry at Arnie; on the east by the Branch of the Pawcatuck River, bounded on the Sea and on the west by land now or formerly of Stanton S. Greene, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. Said First, Second and Third Tracts, being the same premises conveyed by deed of Charles C. Cross to George C. Cross, dated August 23, 1886 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 14, Pages 364 and 365. FOURTH TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings on it and improvements thereon, bounded and described as follows: Easterly, by land now or formerly of Marie Eve and the road leading to the Highway; southerly by land now or formerly of Marie Eve and land now or formerly of Collins and partly bounded by land formerly of James R. Kenyon northernly by land now or formerly of James R. Kenyon Corporation and westerly by land of the same Premises conveyed by said Cross to his Undersigned heir, James Baxter heirs and their assigns, dated May 21, 1936 said Records of Land Evidence, Book No. 22 at page 400(2), EXCEPTING, HOWEVER, from said Four (4) acres, Watts and wife recorded in said Record of Land Evidence, Book No. 34, Pages 425 and Book No. 35, Page 24, a parcel bounded, and west of the road leading to the Bathhouse, 12. recorded in said Record of Land Evidence, Book No. 23 at Page 401. FIFTH TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of land situated on the northerly side on the road from High Street to the Town Highway, bounded and described as follows: beginning at the Highway at the southeasterly corner of the premise herein described and running thence at the southeasterly corner of Walter C. Gavit at uxi thence running northerly, bounded easterly by said Goodman land, a distance of 153.94 feet to a stake and thence running in the same course to the southeasterly corner of another lot of this Grantor thence continuing in the same course described in another lot of this Grantor thence continuing in the same course bounded still easterly by said Goodman land it comes to Charles Gavit thence running westerly, bounded northerly by said tacker land until it comes to a stake running northerly, bounded easterly by land of Samuel Butler until it comes to a stake running south a distance of 150.92 feet to the southeasterly corner of said Town Highway and stones at the southeasterly corner of said Town Highway thence running westerly along the northerly boundary line of said Town Highway thence easterly 150.92 feet to the point and place of beginning described and delineated on Assessors' Plat No. 13 on file in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown. SIXTH TRACT: Being a stake and distance on the stones on the northerly boundary line of said Town Highway, thence running a distance of 90.94 feet to a stake and bounded on the north now or formerly of Butler and land now or formerly of Samuel Butler until it comes to a stake described herein; thence running westerly bounded southerly by said wytt land, a distance of 90.94 feet to a stake and bounded on the North by land now or formerly of Butler thence running northerly, bounded westerly by land of Saltie Real Estate Corporation until it comes to Charlestown Pond, thence running southerly, a distance of 185 feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of land, now or formerly of Samuel Tuck land, thence running southerly, bounded easterly by said Tuck land until it comes to a stake and stones at the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described as delineated on Assessors' Plat No. 13 on file in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown. IT IS THE EXPRESS INTENTION of this conveyance to hereby convey all my right, title and interest in the aforesaid premises and compose all my right, title and interest to and in any and all real estate situated and being in said Town of Charlestown to which I may be entitled as heir-at-law of said George C. Cross. WITNESS my hand this 14th day of September, 1956. (No Internal Revenue Stamps Required) BESSIE C. GAVITT
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND County of Washington In Charlestown, on the 14th day of September, 1956, before me personally appeared Bessie C. Gavitt, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record September 15th, A. D. 1956 at 9:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we, Edward Schartner, of Exeter, Rhode Island, and Maxwell W. Waldman, of Providence, Rhode Island, in our capacity as co-administrators of the Estate of Grace Cashman, deceased, late of the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, by virtue of and in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon us in and by a decree of the Probate Court of the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, entered on the 13th day of August, 1956, and of every other power and authority to us hereunto enabling, and for and in consideration of the sum of Thirty-five Hundred ($3500) Dollars to us paid by Louis J. Galmiche and wife, Esther Galmiche, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the grantees, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said grantees as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, their heirs and assigns forever, all the right, title and interest of the said Grace Cashman in and to: Two certain lots of land which are situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: The first lot contains two (2) acres more or less with a barn thereon, and which is bounded on the north by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, on the east by land now or formerly of George A. Johnson, on the south by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster, and on the west by land now or formerly of Ezra G. Webster, of Thomas J. Webster

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