The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 1358@30/112 › 5504@36/151

10/24/1957 · DEED · book 36 page 151 doc 5504@36/151

From GAVITT BENJAMIN C life, GAVITT BESSIE C
To GRINNELL ELEANOR R, GRINNELL LESTER B
Premises none · Lots 10, 11 and 12 and a strip of land/unnamed street (Charlestown)

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

◀ 1957 · DEED · RATHBONE JOAN W; WATTS CECIL M; WATTS CHARLES E; WATTS CHAS E; RATHBON → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 36 p 77
◀ 1956 · DEED · GAVITT BENJAMIN C → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 321
◀ 1956 · DEED · GAVITT BESSIE C; CROSS GEORGE C EST → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE C · book 35 p 474
◀ 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
◀ 1938 · DEED · BROWN STEWART D; BROWN EDNA C; UBERLACKER HELEN B; UBELACKER HELEN B; → GAVITT BESSIE CROSS; CROSS GAVITT BESSIE; GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 27 p 431
◀ 1933 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CASHMAN CHARLES T → GAVITT BENJAMIN C; GAVITT BESSIE CROSS · book 24 p 504
◀ 1931 · DEED · BERGER SUSAN → GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 24 p 442
◀ 1926 · LEASE · GAVITT GRACE GREEN → GAVITT BENJAMIN C · book 22 p 399

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ (an instrument we do not hold)
“Being the same premises conveyed to the mortgagors herein by Benjamin C. Gavitt and Bessie C. Gavitt by deed dated October 20, 1959”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1960 · RELEASE · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY → GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B · book 36 p 606
“conveyed to the mortgagors herein by Eleanor C. Gaytt, and Bessie C. Gaytt, by deed dated October 29, 1959”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1960 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 37 p 271
“Being the same premises conveyed to the mortgagors herein by Benjamin C. Gavitt and Cecil G. Gavitt by deed dated October 20, 1959”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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

▶ 1958 · DEED · GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B → KRUSZYNA VELMA H; KRUSZYNA WALTER A · book 36 p 486
▶ 1961 · DEED · GRINNELL ALICE E; GRINNELL LESTER E → PELOQUIN ANN; PELOQUIN ROLAND · book 37 p 634
▶ 1959 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 36 p 606
▶ 1960 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R; GRINNELL LESTER B → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 37 p 271
▶ 1963 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 39 p 286
▶ 1964 · DEED · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → ANDERSON JOSEPH E; ANDERSON MEREDITH T · book 40 p 60
▶ 1965 · DEED · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → PEARSON ARLENE C; PEARSON WILLIAM R · book 40 p 170
▶ 1966 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 41 p 141
▶ 1969 · DEED · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → KIMBALL MARGARET E · book 43 p 435
▶ 1970 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 44 p 86
▶ 1974 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 51 p 339
▶ 1985 · CERTIFICATE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → · book 81 p 657
▶ 1985 · MORTGAGE · GRINNELL ELEANOR R → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 81 p 658

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
Being the same premises conveyed to these grantors by Howard E. Thorp and Nelson H. Thorp by deed dated October 11, 1955 and duly recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown in Book #35 @ Pages #138-#139. WITNESS our hands this 11th day of October 1957. JAMES T. BYRNE SOPHIE S. BYRNE (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $2.75) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Westerly on the 11th day of October 1957, before me personally appeared James T. Byrne and Sophie S. Byrne, 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. NELSON H. THORP Notary Public Received for record October 23rd, A. D. 1957 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, BENJAMIN C. GAVITT and BESSIE C. GAVITT, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to LESTER B. GRINNELL and ELEANOR R. GRINNELL, husband and wife, both of said Town, County and State, as joint tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS That certain parcel or tract of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the westerly side of the State Highway, commonly known as Route 1, property of the State of Rhode Island, plotted Dec. 1954, by Masterbrooks, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 50' and at the northeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed, being the southeasterly corner of the premises in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Charlestown, filed in the Town of Charlestown, said Town of Charlestown, in Plat Book No. 3, at Page 8; thence running southeasterly along said State Highway to a point on said Highway, 100 feet southerly a distance of 100 feet; thence continuing still southerly a distance of 100 feet to the southeasterly corner of said premises, thence running westerly, bounded northerly by Lots Nos. 12, 11 and 10, a distance of 300 feet, on course N 88 W, to a point on the westerly corner of said premises, thence running westerly, bounded southerly by Lots Nos. 12, 11 and 10, a distance of 300 feet, on course N 88 W, to a point on the westerly corner of said premises, thence running northerly a distance of 100 feet to a point herein described, thence running northerly a distance of 100 feet, then northerly a distance of westest corner of said premises, thence running northerly a distance of 50 feet to the southeasterly corner of the lot marked Nos. 9, 8 and 7, a distance of 300 running easterly, bounded southerly by Lots Nos. 9, 8 and 7, a distance of 300 feet to the point and place of beginning. Meaning and intending to convey Lots 10, 11 and 12 together with that strip of land, or unnamed street, lying directly northerly of said Lots 10, 11 and 12, all as shown on said Plat. We, Benjamin C. Gavitt and Bessie C. Gavitt, husband and wife, release to said Grantees all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. WITNESS our hands this 23rd day of October, 1957. BENJAMIN C. GAVITT BESSIE C. GAVITT (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,) County of Washington
page 2 · read by Gemma vision
152 In Charlestown, on the 23rd day of October, 1957, before me personally appeared Benjamin C. Gavitt and Bessie C. Gavitt, husband and wife, both 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. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record October 24th, A. D. 1957 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, FLORENCE P. LEWIS GREENHALGH, of the Town of Richmond, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to HAROLD POTTER and MYRA K. POTTER, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants and not Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain tract of beach and marsh land situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southerly corner of land, now or formerly of John F. McCauley at the ocean; thence northerly, bounding easterly by said McCauley land to the highway; thence westerly bounding northerly by said highway to the distance of Fifty feet; thence southerly, bounding easterly by the ocean, thence southerly bounding westerly by land formerly of Stephen T. Browning to the ocean; thence easterly bounding southerly by the ocean to the highway and by the highway (57.82 feet) to the point of and place of beginning. The marsh land lies north of the said highway and is a triangular tract, the hypotenuse and west line of the above described tract to Charlestown Pond, or however otherwise said premises may be bounded or determined. Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by deed of Stephen T. Browning to this Grantor by warranty deed bearing date or September 23rd, 1922 and recorded in the Record of Land Evidences of the Town of Charlestown, bk No. 20 at Page 327 and 328. Reference to said deed and the Records thereof being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed. 1. Florence P. Lewis Greenhalgh, covenants that I am a widow. WITNESS my hand this 10th day of October, 1957. FLORENCE P. LEWIS GREENHALGH (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown, on the 10th day of October, 1957, before me personally appeared Florence F. Lewis Greenhalgh, 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 October 24th, A. D. 1957 at 10:15 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

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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.