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11/2/1957 · DEED · book 36 page 159 doc 5515@36/159

From IRISH GEORGE C life, IRISH LYRA B
To BROWN KATHRINE M, BROWN SHERMAN H
Premises 35 feet wide tract from Quonochontough Beach Road to the Atlantic Ocean (Charlestown, Quonochontough Beach Road, Atlantic Ocean)
Also on this page: DEED BROWN HAROLD W; BROWN RUTH J

Back — where this land came from

heir Albert S. Babcock
“heir-at-law of S. Babcock... which the said Albert S. Babcock owned at the time of his decease”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1934 · DEED · REILLY THOMAS F; REILLY ANNA T BY ATTORNEY → IRISH GEORGE C; IRISH LYRA B · book 25 p 547

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 · DEED · BLANTON HARRIET; BLANTON HARRIET MARSH; BROWN HAROLD W; BROWN KATHERIN → · book 39 p 255
▶ 1965 · DEED · BETTINGER FREDERICKA B; BETTINGER ROBERT L; BROWN CAROLE B; BROWN DAVI → DOWD AGNES M · book 40 p 278
▶ 1965 · AGREEMENT · BETTINGER FREDERICKA B; BETTINGER ROBERT L; BROWN CAROLE B; BROWN DAVI → NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY; NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO · book 40 p 309
▶ 1967 · DEED · BETTINGER FREDERIKA B; BROWN DAVID W; BROWN SHERMAN H; GORDON ELIZABET → FORBY CORP · book 42 p 18
▶ 1967 · DEED · BETTINGER FREDERICKA B; BETTINGER ROBERT T; BROWN CAROL B; BROWN DAVID → FORBY CORP · book 41 p 522
▶ 1972 · AFFIDAVIT · BROWN SHERMAN H → BROWN SHERMAN H · book 46 p 443
▶ 1974 · DEED · BROWN KATHERINE M; BROWN SHERMAN H → MARSH CHAUNCEY H · book 50 p 354
▶ 1975 · DEED · BROWN KATHERINE M; BROWN SHERMAN H → LOECKLER KATHERINE B · book 53 p 419

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
159 QUIT-CLAIM DEED KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, LYRA B. IRISH, of the Town of Hopkinton, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to HAROLD W. BROWN and RUTH J. BROWN, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as JOINT TENANTS and not as tenants-in-common, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) A certain tract or parcel of land thirty-five (35) feet in width, located on the southerly side of that certain highway known as Quonochontough Beach Road, so-called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the northeasterly corner of said tract at an iron pipe driven in the ground at the southerly side of said highway, running highway at the northeasterly corner of land of Doris S. Pate, and running in a generally southern direction in a straight course, bounded southerly by said Paten land a distance of one hundred forty-four (144) feet, more or less, to the Beach at the Atlantic Ocean; thence easterly, bounded southerly by said Atlantic Ocean a distance of thirty-five (35) feet; thence northerly in a straight course, bounded northerly by the grants of a distance the Two Hundred Eighty Eight (288) feet, more or less, to the southerly side of Crossroad Highway running in a generally western direction, bounded northerly by said highway a distance of thirty-five (35) feet, to the point of beginning. Meaning and intending by these presents to convey to the grantees all the right, title, interest, claim or demand which I have, may have, or have right or ought to have, in, heritable or not, claim in and to said land by virtue of my being heir-at-law of S. Babcock, late of the Town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, or otherwise, meaning to convey all the right, title, interest, claim or demand in said aforesaid-described tract which the said Albert S. Babcock owned at the time of his decease. I hereby covenant that I am the sole heir-at-law of said Albert S. Babcock. I, George C. Irish, husband of the grantor release to said grantees all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 29th day of October 1957. LYRA B. IRISH GEORGE C. IRISH (DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) ) County of Washington ) In Hopkinton on the 29th day of October 1957 before me personally appeared LYRA B. IRISH and her husband, GEORGE C. IRISH, 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. EDWARD M. BOUTELLE Notary Public Received for record November 2nd, A. D. 1957 at 9:36 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk ---- QUIT-CLAIM DEED KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, LYRA B. IRISH, of the Town of Hopkinton, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to SHERMAN H. BROWN and KATHRINE M. BROWN, husband and wife, both of Naugatuck, in the State of Connecticut, as JOINT TENANTS and not as tenants-in-common, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) A certain tract or parcel of land thirty (30) feet in width, located on the southerly side of that certain highway known as Quonochontough Beach Road, so-called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows, to-wit:

The page as recorded

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