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9/7/1898 · DEED · book 13 page 475 doc 5650

From SAUNDERS LYDIA F life
To MERRITT WARREN L life
Consideration Fifty Dollars
Premises 23.75 acres · Four tracts of land including part of the Cobleighter Babcock farm (Charlestown, Cohasset-town, Cominsessing beach)

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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

▶ 1901 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L; MERRITT EMMA E → SAUNDERS LYDIA F · book 14 p 172
▶ 1903 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L → MERRITT STELLA E C · book 14 p 404
▶ 1909 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L; MERRITT STELLA E C → MOULTON BENJAMIN P · book 16 p 304
▶ 1911 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L; MERRITT STELLA E C; BLAKE DANIEL E; BLAKE GEORGIA; B → BLIVEN FRANK E · book 17 p 112
▶ 1934 · DEED · MERRITT WARREN L; MERRITT STELLA E C → BLIVEN FRANK E · book 25 p 431
▶ 1904 · AGREEMENT · BLIVEN FRANK E; MERRITT WARREN L → MERRITT WARREN L; BLIVEN FRANK E · book 15 p 2

Bounded by

H.A. Bradbury · H.A. Bradbury · L. H. A. Burwash · W. H. Burwash · Billings D. December · Simons · Charles · Asa Brown

The instrument's own words

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to the said grantee and his heirs and assigns for ever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. Paid for the consideration aforesaid I Maria R Langworthy wife of said Leslie P Langworthy do hereby release all my right of owner in and to the said granted premises unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns for ever. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord ae thousand eight hundred and ninety seven. Signed and sealed in presence of Flora M Collins Leslie P Langworthy L.S. Eben D Collins Maria R Langworthy L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Providence In Providence on the 16th day of October AD 1897 before me personally appeared Leslie P Langworthy to me known and I know him to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and the acknowledged said instrument to him executed to be his free act and deed. Charles H Jenakes Notary Public Received for record Aug 27th 1897 at 2 oclock AM L.S. and recorded by George Le Love Town Clerk Know all men by these Presents That I Dexter I Saunders of North Kingston County of Washington, State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of Fifty Dollars to me paid by Warren De Bennett of Charlestown in said county and state hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby quit grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns for ever, four certain tracts of land situated in said Charlestown the first tract contains one and three quarters acres and is bounded on the North, South and West by land of H.A. & H.A. Bradbury's heirs, East by Charlestown Road, the second tract contains three acres and is bounded North, East South and West by land
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476 of L. H. A. & H. H. Burnap's heirs. The third tract contains four acres and is bounded on the North, East and South by land of said L. H. A. & H. H. Burnap's heirs and West by land of Billings D. December. The fourth tract contains thirteen acres and is bounded on the North by land of L. H. A. & H. H. Burnap's heirs, East by Cohasset-town Pond, South and West by land of Billings D. December. It being a part of the farm known as the Cobleighter Babcock farm and situated in Cominsessing beach in said Cohasset-town was a certain lot situated in said Cohasset-town containing three acres bounded on the North by land owned by some Babcocks, East by land furnishable of Simons in Cohasset-town South by land of Billings D. December and West by Hope land or however either of said tracts may be bounded. To have and to hold the aforesaid premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever. And I the said Grantor do hereby for myself and for my heirs execute and administrators covenant that the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises that the same are free from all incumbrances that I have good right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid. That the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises and that the said Grantor shall and my heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and his heirs bind and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 10th day of September in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight. Signed and sealed in presence of George La Cove Lydia F. Saunders L.S. [illegible] $1.00 State of Rhode Island County of Washington. In Cohasset-town on
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the 7 day of Sept 4d, 1798 before me personally appeared Lydia Th Sanders to me known and known by who she to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and she acknowledged and with him to be her executed to be her free act and deed. George Do Coons Notary Public Received for record Sept 7, 1798 at 11 oclock A.M. and recorded by George Do Coons Town Clerk Know All Men by these Presents, that I Herbert L. Stithman of Charlestown, in the county of Washington, State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to me paid by Harriet Le Perry of said Charlestown the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said Harriet Le Perry her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title, interest property, claim and demand, which I may have or of right might have to have or claim, in and to a certain farm situated in said town of Charlestown containing fifty acres more or less with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing, and bounded as follows, on the North by the Post Road, east by land of Charles Le Perry etc etc the party by land of said Charles Le Perry et al and land of the Sterby and West by land of Asa Brown. Being the same Property conveyed to this grantor by his parents by deed dated March 2nd 1792 and recorded in Prob Book 13 to page 428 of Land Evidence records of said Charlestown To have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereto appertaining unto and to the use of the said Harriet Le Perry her heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforesaid Herbert L. Stithman for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators, do covenant with the said Harriet Le Perry her heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said Harriet Le Perry her heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming the same through or under me. And I Sarah L. Stithman wife of the said Herbert L.

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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.