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2/16/1906 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · book 15 page 285 doc 6145

From CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF life, AUSTIN WELCOME K DECEASED life
To CHURCH J WINFIELD life
Premises none · No description provided for the specified instrument (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

◀ 1893 · DEED · MACOMBER AMY; AUSTIN GEORGE G; AUSTIN MARY A → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF · book 12 p 455

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

▶ 1911 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · GREENE SAMUEL S; CHURCH J WINFIELD → AUSTIN JAMES W · book 17 p 102
▶ 1917 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CHURCH J WINFIELD → HOXSIE EVERETT A; HOXSIE ANNIE M · book 15 p 452

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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42 southerly in A. Wrights line paralleled with the East line of said Hull land, of 75 rods. Thence easterly forty (40) feet to the place of beginning, with all the buildings and other improvements thereon standing, I, Lemuel Edwards husband of the Grantor release to said Grantee all my right of dowery and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. Witness our hands this twenty first day of October 1899 William Edwards Llg Lemuel Edwards State of Rhode Island county of Providence In Pawtucket on the 21st day of October 1899 before me personally appeared William Edwards and Lemuel Edwards to me known and known me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they severally acknowledged said instrument being their executed to be their free act and deed, Henry H. Leland Notary Public Rec'd and rec for record January 7th 1890 at 9-10 oclock AM, and recorded by George G. Coone, Town Clerk *** I, All Possible to whom these presents shall come, greeting; Know ye that we, that Mr. Thomas B. Prescott and Mabel B. Prescott, husband and wife both of the town of West Haven, county of New Haven, state of connecticut, for the consideration of thirty five hundred dollars received to our full satisfaction of the Home Bank and Trust Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and doing its principal business in the form of West Haven, in said State, do give, grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said Home Bank and Trust Company, its successors and assigns forever, a certain tract or parcel of land situate and being in the town of Charlestown in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded as described as follows: To wit: That number six lot as shown and delineated on a certain plan or plat entitled "Plan of Shorefront property beach, Charlestown, R.I. Prop'r Traver, Inc." dated July the 10th, 1924, Rosie and Susan, Engin" recorded November 10th 1925, said plan or plat being on file in the Town Clerk's office in said Town of Charlestown, together with the right to pass and ride to and from and from and to said lot aforesaid on foot or otherwise over and across certain those certain rights of way or
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road or thonm or said plot or plat leading to the public highway, and all such the rights of way leading to the beach, and along the right of way leading from the road to the fresh water pond and any other portions of land which might hereafter be appropriated for public use. To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said grantee its successors and assigns forever, to it and them their proper use and behoof, and also, that the said grantor of herself and her heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with said grantee its successors and assigns, that at and upon the sealing of the present instrument, she has well signed and sealed the same in a manner in due form and as of her own motion; that the same is free from all incumbrances whatever except certain restrictions contained in a deed to this premises herein, dated Aug 8, 1929 from Arnold E. Maple and Harriet M. Maple. And furthermore, the said grantor do by these presents bind her successors and her heirs, forever, to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises to the said grantee its successors and assigns against all claims and demands whatsoever, her heirs furthermore. In witness whereof she has hereunto set her hand and seal the day and year first above written, Feb 27, 1930. The consideration of this deed is zero that whereas the grantee is indebted to and owes unto the sum of 3,000 dollars, as evidenced by her promissory note dated January 6, 1930, by which note for value received the promisor agrees to pay the said of the granted, thirty per hundred dollars, with interest at the rate of six per ann, per annum, payable semi annually, together with all fees incurred when said sum again paid to said grantee or the trustee of the trust and costs and actions including reasonable attorneys fees, from the first of paid note until she be well and truly paid, according to its terms thus shall be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect. Signed, sealed and delivered In presence of Margaret A. Doyle M. L. Lowash Thomas E. Prescott (seal) Mabel E. Prescott (seal) State of Connecticut Town of Sharon County Litchfield S.S. West Sharon January 14, 1930 Before me personally appeared Thomas E. Prescott and Mabel E. Prescott signers and sealers of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed, before me M. L. Lowash Commissioner of the superior court for the state of Connecticut Received for record January 14, 1930 at 9-10 oclock AM and recorded by George Moore Town Clerk (For assignment of above Mortgage, see Book 26, Page 292) sales paper 235, 239, 241.

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.