The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 1945@31/135 › 6376@37/161

2/15/1960 · DEED · book 37 page 161 doc 6376@37/161

From TORREYSON MARY L, TORREYSON WILLIAM F
To RHODE ISLAND STATE OF life
Premises none · Lot Nos. 55, 57 and part of 59 on Assessor's Plat 13 (Charlestown Beach, Charlestown Beach Road, Charlestown Beachway)

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

◀ 1959 · DEED · TORREYSON WILLIAM F → TORREYSON MARY L · book 36 p 611
◀ 1958 · DEED · TORREYSON MARY L → TORREYSON MARY L; TORREYSON WILLIAM F · book 36 p 338
◀ 1957 · DEED · TORREYSON MARY L → TORREYSON MARY L; TORREYSON WILLIAM F · book 36 p 137
◀ 1956 · DEED · PER-LEE FRED E; PER-LEE MABEL L; PERLEE FRED E; PERLEE MABEL L → TORREYSON MARY L; TORREYSON WILLIAM F · book 35 p 444
◀ 1956 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E → TORREYSON MARY L; BROWNING HARRIET E · book 35 p 445
◀ 1948 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → TORREYSON MARY L · book 31 p 135

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 37 page 161 (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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161 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Charlestown, on the 12th day of February, 1960, before me personally appeared Myra K. Potter and her husband, Harold Potter, both to me known and 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. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record February 12th, A. D. 1960 at 9:30 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- We, WILLIAM F. TORREYSON and wife MARY L. TORREYSON, both of Arlington, County of Arlington, in the State of Virginia, for consideration paid grant to STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, Department of Agriculture and Conservation being the Acquiring Authority, with QUITCLAIM CONVEYANCE That certain parcel or part of parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon situate in the south east section Charlestown Beach area of the town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: beginning at a point in the northerly line of Charlestown Beach Road at the southeasterly corner of the parcel bearing Lot No. 55, Plat 9, then running northerly on the corner of other land of these grantees, about six and 5/10 (6.5) west 5/10 (6.5) feet westerly from a stone bound set at the southeasterly corner of land now or lately of L. I. [?] then running northerly 110.0 feet, then running southeasterly along a line to angle said northerly line of Charlestown Beach Road a distance of eighty and 65/100 (80.65) feet, more or less, to angle in a said northerly line of Charlestown Beach Road, then running northerly on said line a distance of forty-nine and 13/100 (49.13) feet, more or less, to land now or lately of Carl G. Dallegno; thence running southeasterly 110.0 feet to the southeasterly corner of the parcel bearing Lot No. 55, Plat 9, then running southeasterly running northerly on a demising line bounding westerly on Charlestown Beachway and Charlestown Beach Road to land now or lately of Ruth S. [?] then running southeasterly bounding easterly on said land now or lately of Ruth S. [?] to the corner of other land now or lately of these grantees; thence running said southeasterly bound to land now or lately of L. I. [?] a distance of six hundred fifty-seven and 87/100 (657.87) feet, more or less, to the northerly line of said Charlestown Beach Road and the point or place of beginning. Said tract being Lot Nos. 55, 57 and part of 59 on Assessor's Plat 13. I, WILLIAM F. TORREYSON, release to said grantee all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands and seals this 29th day of January 1960. In presence of: Arienne M. Wed WILLIAM F. TORREYSON (SEAL) MARY L. TORREYSON (SEAL) Approved as to form: John J. Rane Acquiring Authority Approved as to form: JOSEPH M. BURKE Attorney General Charles A. Kilvert Director of Administration STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY of Arlington, to-wit: In Arlington, Va., on the 29th day of January, 1960 before me personally appeared WILLIAM F. TORREYSON and wife MARY L. TORREYSON, to me known and by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. MABEL R. HENRY (Notary Seal) Notary Public commission expires Sept. 30, 1962. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA COUNTY OF Arlington, to-wit: I, H. BRUCE GREEN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia, the same being a Court of a record, do certify that Mabel R. Henry whose pen name signature is attached to the foregoing certificate is, a Notary Public, duly commissioned and appointed, and whose commission is now in full force and residing in said County and a She authorized, by virtue of his office, to take acknowledgments to deeds and other instruments of the part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that the handwriting of said Mabel R. Henry is that of the said Notary Public, and that the said Notary Public and the handwriting of the said Mabel R. Henry are entitled to full faith and credit; and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Mabel R. Henry as a Notary Public, and that the handwriting of said Notary Public is genuine and that said commission is due in form of law. I further certify that the laws of Virginia do not require the imprint of the Notary's seal to be filed with the parchment. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 29th day of January, 1960, and in the 184th year of the Commonwealth. H. BRUCE GREEN, Clerk (Seal)

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.