The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 6005

4/23/1904 · DEED · book 15 page 49 doc 6005

From GREENE CHAS J ADMINISTRATOR, MONEY JOHN W ESTATE OF life
To CROSS WILLIAM D life
Premises 3 parcels · three hundred feet square parcels (Charlestown)

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This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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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

▶ 1905 · DEED · CROSS WILLIAM D; CROSS MARTHA S → KENYON ORRIN F · book 15 p 168
▶ 1938 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BARBER EMMA E · book 27 p 440
▶ 1939 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CROSS WILLIAM D; CROSS CELIA M · book 28 p 25
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 246
▶ 1940 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS WILLIAM D DECEASE → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 28 p 247
▶ 1941 · TAX SALE RETURN · CROSS WILLIAM D; DAVID JOSEPH B; GILMARTIN EUGENE R; CENTRAL TOOL CO; → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; LASKEY HOWARD G; TIMPERLEY J WILLIAM; TIMPERLEY R · book 28 p 474
▶ 1942 · TAX SALE RETURN · CLARK CLARENCE L; CROSS WILLIAM D; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; MINER ETHEL; T → GREEN HATTIE; CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CROSS WILLIAM D; GREEN ERNEST · book 28 p 693
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W DECEASED → BROWN ALBERT E · book 29 p 180
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BOOTHMAN ERNEST R · book 29 p 271
▶ 1944 · TAX SALE RETURN · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; CLARKE EDWARD M; CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; → · book 29 p 285
▶ 1944 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WALKER ALICE L · book 29 p 296
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → GRIMES EMILY R; MCVAY ELLEN E; BROOKS ELIZABETH J · book 29 p 424
▶ 1945 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → CLARKE EDWARD M · book 29 p 519
▶ 1946 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → WOODMANCY GLADYS M; WOODMANCY WILLIAM N · book 30 p 259
▶ 1948 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → LEWIS GEORGE H · book 30 p 678
▶ 1949 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 31 p 594

The instrument's own words

Attribution under review. The portal's file number is shared by more than one instrument, and the words below could not be placed with certainty on this one by their own evidence (page stamp, parties, dates); they may belong to a neighbouring instrument. Read them as the record of the page, not yet as this deed's own.
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269 said granted premises unto the said grantee and his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this day May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty four Executed in the presence of John Ferguson Frank Tromi L.S. Lena Tromi L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington On Monday the 5th day of May A.D. 1924 before me personally appeared Frank Tromi and Lena Tromi, his wife, each to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument and them executed, to be their free act and deed. John Ferguson A notary Public Received for record May 12th 1924 at 9-45 o'clock a.m. and entered my mortgage cavernous, com clerk Know all men by these presents, that the Washington Trust Company, a banking corporation organized by act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, and having a principal office in the Town of North Kingstown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to me Frank Tromi of the Town of Charlestown in said County of Washington, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee, his heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest property claim and demand which I now have, or of right ought to have, or claim, in and to a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the South east corner of his neighbors conveyed,
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270 There is a tree along the line of the highway Parcel measured (33) feet thence I set a stone three hundred (3-3) feet; thence southerly three hundred (3) feet; hence Easterly four hundred (400) feet along the dwelling line between the Lands of Py Wright on the one and Lands of J. S. Sacks on the other and house of beginning, bounded on the East by a highway a 1/2 mile from the road and my will be on the north and on the south by the lands of J. Sacks on a lot about 3 parcels of land three hundred feet square, cut off the S street corner of the all as enclosed to this plat and Mill maintenance by a deed dated and signed and sealed the 28th day of February 1848 and recorded in Record of deeds in said Town of Charlestown in Book 19 page 179 and all the same map over my parcels to south section by a deed dated the 25th day of May 1849 and recorded in Record of deeds in said Town of Charlestown in Book "24" page 268, This deed is given for the purpose of releasing the CONSIDERED lands from certain mortgages made to H. A. who over the parcels were paid up 1872 Lease recorded in Record of mortgages in said Town of Charlestown, Book 12 page 58. To have and to hold the same with all rights, privileges and appurtenances appertaining unto and to the use of the said Grantee his heirs and assigns forever, and the aforesaid Grantor for himself and for his successors and assigns covenants with the said Grantee his heirs and assigns that it will be warrant and defend the premises provided with the said Grantee, his heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by through or under the Grantor, In witness whereof the Washington Trust Company have caused their common seal to be set by its duly authorized officer and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed this 4th day of May in the year Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Lowry The Washington Trust Company by William S. Perry Pres. L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Providence on the 4th day of May 1849 before me personally appeared William S. Perry Pres. of the Washington Trust Company to me known, and acknowledged me to be the act executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument by him executed, to be his free act and deed in his capacity and the full act and deed of said The Washington Trust Company, Signed S. Bringstone The seal of record may 12, 1849 at 4 o'clock p.m. M. Haley Clerk

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