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6/11/1910 · DEED · book 16 page 451 doc 6512

From SWEENEY JOHN W life, SAUNDERS FRANK T life, SAUNDERS JANE life
To DOUGHERTY JOHN life
Premises Lot 23, Assessors' Plat 3 (Charlestown Estates, 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

◀ 1907 · DEED · KING JOHN W P ADMINISTRATOR; SAUNDERS THOMAS E ESTATE OF → SAUNDERS FRANK T · book 16 p 33
◀ 1910 · MORTGAGE · SAUNDERS FRANK T; SAUNDERS JANE → SWEENEY JOHN W · book 16 p 361
◀ 1907 · DEED · KING GEORGE W; KING MARTHA S → SAUNDERS FRANK T · book 16 p 31

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 · DEED · DOUGHERTY JOHN → MAYO JOSEPH · book 17 p 26
▶ 1915 · DEED · DOUGHERTY JOHN; DOUGHERTY HANNAH → DUNN JAMES A · book 18 p 288
▶ 1916 · DEED · DOUGHERTY JOHN → QUONOCONTAUG GRANGE NO 48 P OF H · book 18 p 410
▶ 1915 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · MAYO JOSEPH; DOUGHERTY JOHN → MARTZI GUISEPPE · book 18 p 227

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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658 TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for the year 1938, SEND GREETING; WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual Finan- cial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1938, voted and order- ed 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. 1938, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such asses- ment and fixed the rate of $1.00 on each one hundred dollars valuation 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 according to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town. And WHEREAS, Sarah D. Farmelee neglected to pay the tax assessed against her as expressed in said tax bill amounting to Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) and in consequence thereof I conclude that on the 1st day of March, A. D. 1939 levy said warrant upon that certain tract or parcel of real estate as shown and designated as Lot 23, Assessors' Plat 3, and Original Tax List and Tax Bill, 1938, belonging to said Sarah D. Farmelee in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at three public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Charlestown Post Office, Freight's Garage, Ginnell's Garage, store of C. Cronon & Son, and also in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 6th day of March, A. D. 1939, at 12:30 o'clock, p. m., Eastern Standard Time, at the Town hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at public auction, by Robert P. Day, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and Charlestown Estates, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation, with place of business in Westerly, Rhode Island, was the highest bidder. NOW, KNOW that, in consideration of the sum of twenty-four Dollars Sixty-four Cents ($24.64) to me paid by said Charlestown Estates, Inc. the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowl- edge, I do hereby sell and convey unto said Charlestown Estates, Inc., its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said Sarah D. Farmelee had in and to said prem- ises at the time of assessing said tax, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging; for a de- scription of said premises, reference is hereby made and had to Assessors' Plats and Cards on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown and the Land Evidence Records of said Town. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Charlestown Estates, Inc., 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 Charlestown Estates, Inc., its successors and assigns, that I have advertised the said property as heretofore 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 10th day of May, A. D. 1939. In the presence of: Linton L. Brown. WILLIAM D. CROSS (SEAL) Collector of Taxes, Town of Charlestown for the year 1938. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 11th day of May, A. D. 1939, before me personally appeared William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party exe- cuting the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid. LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public. Received for record May 11th, A. D. 1939 at 9:42 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by Town Clerk

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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.