The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 5700@36/331

1/18/1962 · RELEASE · book 36 page 331 doc 5700@36/331

From HAWKES WINFIELD, WILLIAMS JOHN life
To STORY CLIFFORD, STORY CYNTHIA
Premises Lot No. 5 on H. N. Burdick property map (Quonochontaug East Beach, Charlestown)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE WILLIAMS JOHN; HAWKES WINFIELD

Back — where this land came from

deed book 31 p 643 Charlestown
“Being the same premises described in a Warranty Deed dated October 7, 1949 and recorded in the Charlestown Land Records in Book 31, page 643.”
◀ Follow back 1949 · DEED · SARCY A GEORGE; SARCY AGNES A → STORY CYNTHIA H · book 31 p 643
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1958 · MORTGAGE · STORY CYNTHIA H → WILLIAMS JOHN; HAWKES WINFIELD · book 36 p 331
◀ 1928 · DEED · PHINNEY JOHN; PHINNEY RUTH H → WILLIAMS JOHN · book 23 p 214
◀ 1922 · DEED · PHINNEY JOHN; PHINNEY RUTH H → WILLIAMS JOHN · book 20 p 170

Forward — where this land went

⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The assessor does not cite book 36 page 331 (its history for each parcel goes back only a few transfers). The index is complete to 1987, but only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), and nothing after 1965 has been, so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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331 TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: KNOW YE, That I, CYNTHIA H. STORY, of the Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut, for the consideration of One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars received to my full satisfaction of JOHN WILLIAMS and WINFIELD HAWKES, both of the Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut, do give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the said John Williams and Winfield Hawkes a certain tract or parcel of land together with all buildings and improvements thereon situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and being laid out and designated as Lot No. 5 on that map or plan entitled "Plot of Cottage Sites on H. N. Burdick property Quonochontaug East Beach Scale 100' to an inch G. W. Woodward Surveyor May 1914" which map or plan is on record in the Records of the Land Evidence for said Town of Charlestown in Deed Book 18 Pages 46 and 47, reference thereto being made for a more complete description. Being the same premises described in a Warranty Deed dated October 7, 1949 and recorded in the Charlestown Land Records in Book 31, page 643. I, Clifford Story, husband of the mortgagor, release to the mortgagees all my right of curtesy and all other interest I may have in the aforesaid premises. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained premises, with the appurtenances thereof, unto and unto the said grantees their heirs and assigns, forever, to them and their own proper use and behoof. and also I the said grantor do for myself, on my heirs, executors, administrators, covenant with the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, that until and at the onset of the sealing of these Presents, I am well seized of the premises, as the good and lawful estate in FEE SIMPLE; and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and that the same is free from all incumbrances whatsoever, except as hereinbefore mentioned. AND FURTHERMORE, I the said grantor do by these presents bind myself and my heirs forever to WARRANT and DEFEND the above granted and bargained premises to then the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever, except as hereinbefore mentioned. THE CONDITION OF THIS DEED IS SUCH, that whereas the said grantor is justly indebted to the said grantees in sum of One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars of even date herewith, payable to said grantees or order with interest at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, and payable according to the terms contained in said promissory note. NOW THEREFORE, if said note shall be well and truly paid according to its tenor, then this deed shall be void, otherwise to remain in full Force and effect. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set hand and seal this 11th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight. Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of CYNTHIA H. STORY L.S. Cynthia H. Story CLIFFORD STORY L.S. Clifford Story STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } SS. County of New London } Norwich, July 11th 1958 Personally appeared Cynthia H. Story, and Clifford Story, Signers and Sealers of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed before me. CYRIL DEMBROW (Notarial Seal) Cyril Dembrow Received for record July 15th, A. D. 1958 at 10:30 o'clock a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That We, THE said JOHN WILLIAMS and WINFIELD HAWKES, both of Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut do hereby release and discharge a certain mortgage given to said John Williams and Winfield Hawkes dated July 11, 1958 and recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Charlestown, County of State of Rhode Island in Vol. 36, at Page 331 to which reference is here made. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal this 11th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two. JOHN WILLIAMS L.S. John Williams WINFIELD HAWKES L.S. Winfield Hawkes Dorothy Sheffield Paul R. Washington Paul R. Washington
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832 STATE OF CONNECTICUT } ss. Norwich, January 16, 1962 County of New London } Personally appeared John Williams and Winfield Hawkes Signers and Sealers of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed before me, PAUL M. VARNOTTON Paul M. Varnotton Commissioner of the Superior Court Received for record January 18th, A. D. 1962 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- WARRANTY DEED I, RUTH J. FINLEY, (widow), of the City of Cranston, County of Providence and State of Rhode Island hereaf, for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES F. O'DONNELL and wife, FRANCES L. O'DONNELL, both of the City of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as JOINT TENANTS, and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS Those certain lots or parcels of land, with all the buildings and improvements thereon situated on the south side of the line of Second Street and southeasterly line of Sea Lane Avenue, at Green Hill Pond, Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, being identified as lots number 115 (one hundred fifteen) and 117 (one hundred seventeen), and two small strips of land on the west side of the line of Second Street now dedicated as lots number 250 (two hundred fifty) and 251 (two hundred fifty-one), all said four lots being on that certain plat made by W. M. R. Jenkins (Numbered Lots to represent area of Sea Colony Surveyed and Platted in 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1937) Leon R. Jenkins, Land Surveyor, with the approval of the Town Council of Charlestown and recorded in Plat Book 2 at pages 46 and 47. This conveyance is made subject to restrictions for said lots 115 and 117, and for separate restrictions for said lots number 250 and 251, all enumerated in prior deeds of record; also subject to set back line as shown on said above mentioned recorded plat. I, Ruth J. Finley, hereby covenant that I am unmarried. WITNESS my hand this 15th day of July 1958. RUTH J. FINLEY In presence of Lillian L. Johnson (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, 87.15) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF KENT In West Warwick on the 15th day of July 1958, before me personally appeared Ruth J. Finley, grantor, 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. LILLIAN L. JOHNSON Notary Public. Received for record July 16th, A. D. 1958 at 4:45 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- MORTGAGE DEED KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that, we, CHARLES F. O'DONNELL and wife, FRANCES L. O'DONNELL, both of the City of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, (hereinafter called "Mortgagors," for consideration paid hereby grant to OLD COLONY CO-OPERATIVE BANK, a corporation of the State of Rhode Island, having its principal offices in the City of Providence (hereinafter called "Mortgagee"), and its successors and assigns forever, with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, excepting only such encumbrances as may be set forth below, to secure the payment of FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED and no/100 Dollars ($4500.00) with interest as provided in and according to the terms of that certain promissory note of said Mortgagor(s) in said amount

The page as recorded

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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.