The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 201@28/150 › 64@28/221

6/5/1940 · MORTGAGE · book 28 page 221 doc 64@28/221

From STARRETT AMY W, STARRETT PHILIP E
To INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY
Premises none · Lot 4, Assessors' Plat 3 (Charlestown)
Index description SEE DOC

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

◀ 1940 · DEED · HIGGINS JOHN H → STARRETT PHILIP E · book 28 p 213
◀ 1939 · AGREEMENT · BROWN MADALIN W; BROWN STANLEY Q; STARRETT AMY W; STARRETT PHILIP E → STARRETT PHILIP E; STARRETT AMY W; BROWN STANLEY Q; BROWN MADALIN W · book 28 p 122
◀ 1939 · MORTGAGE · BROWN MADALIN W; BROWN STANLEY W → STARRETT AMY W; STARRETT PHILIP E · book 28 p 127
◀ 1937 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · MCCOLL EUGENIA A → STARRETT AMY W; STARRETT PHILIP E · book 25 p 583
◀ 1934 · DEED · MCCOLL EUGENIA A → STARRETT PHILIP E · book 25 p 578
◀ 1934 · DEED · WILCOX ESTHER → STARRETT PHILIP E · book 25 p 579
◀ 1934 · DEED · CRUMB CARRIE B → STARRETT PHILIP E · book 25 p 580

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

▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → WILSON GRAFTON M; WILSON MARION G · book 28 p 150
▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY; KENYON JOSEPHINE; OWENS MARTHA B; BABCOCK CH → NARRAGANETT ELECTRIC COMPANY · book 28 p 487
▶ 1943 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → NELSON GABRIEL; NELSON ANNA · book 28 p 90
▶ 1944 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → SAWYER GEORGE A · book 29 p 227
▶ 1944 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → SULLIVAN GRANITE COMPANY · book 29 p 255
▶ 1946 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → STARRETT AMY W; STARRETT PHILIP E · book 28 p 223
▶ 1946 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → BROWN HAROLD W; BROWN RUTH J · book 28 p 277
▶ 1951 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY → WOOD WALTER E; WOOD GEORGE W; WOOD ZADA J · book 29 p 254

The instrument's own words

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278 TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, for the year 1939, SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the Taxpayers of the said Town of Charlestown, at their Annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1939, voted and ordered the assessment and collection of a tax on the ratable real estate and tangible personal property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS, on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1939, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment and fixed the rate thereon of $1.30 one and one hundred dollars vanilla of the ratable real estate and tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivered to me with the warrant duly signed attached thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to proceed accordinging to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town. AND WHEREAS, Inez E. Gaifgord, neglected to pay the tax assessed against her as ex expense pressed in said tax bill amounting to One Dollar Forty-seven Cents and in consequence thereof I did on the 1st day of the 1st May, A. D. 1940 levy said warrant upon that certain piece or parcel of land show and designated as Lot 4, Assessors' Plat 3, belonging to said Inez E. Gaifgord in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at four public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Wrights Garage, the store of E. C. Brown & Son, Crinellgas Garage and the post office at Charlestown, RI., I, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and also in the South County News, a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 13th day of July, A. D. 1940, at one o'clock, P. M., Daylight Saving Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at Public Auction, by Robert F. Day, auctioneer qualified, the premises aforesaid, and no bid being offered, I, William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes aforesaid, then and there made public declaration that I was purchasing the above described premises for the Town of Charlestown, aforesaid, at the amount of tax, charges and expenses of sale. NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of Eleven Dollars, ninety-five Cents ($11.95) to me paid by said Town of Charlestown, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey, unto said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said Inez E. Gaifgord, had in and to said premises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging; for a description of said premises, reference is hereby made to and Assessors' Plats and Cards on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of said Town. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law). And I, the said William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, do covenant with the said Town of Charlestown, its successors and assigns, that I have advertised the said property as hereinbefore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of taxes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940. In the presence of: Linton L. Brown Wm. D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, Town of Charlestown for the year 1939 (L. S.) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington) In Charlestown, on the 23rd day of July, A. D. 1940, before me personally appeared William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument, by his executed, to be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid. LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public. Received for Record July 24th, A. D. 1940 at 9:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

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.