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8/1/1944 · DEED · book 29 page 238 doc 65@29/238

From BERESFORD JOHN, BERESFORD ELIZA E
To BERESFORD WILLIAM, GRILLS MILDRED B, BERESFORD HARRY G
Consideration less than one hundred dollars
Premises none · triangular tract with part of a building (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

◀ 1934 · DEED · TUCKER MILLARD F → BERESFORD JOHN; BERESFORD ELIZA E · book 25 p 597
◀ 1925 · DEED · BERESFORD WILLIAM; BERESFORD NELLIE → BERESFORD ELIZA E · book 22 p 45

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

▶ 1961 · DEED · BERESFORD MARGARET; BERESFORD MARGARET S; BERESFORD MARION; BERESFORD → · book 37 p 604
▶ 1948 · MORTGAGE · GRILLS FRANK H; GRILLS MILDRED B → SERRA WILLIAM J · book 31 p 100
▶ 1965 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → FALCONE ANGELO J; FALCONE JANICE · book 40 p 551
▶ 1965 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → FALCONE ANGELO J; FALCONE JANICE · book 40 p 552
▶ 1966 · AGREEMENT · FALCONE ANGELO J; FALCONE JANICE E; GRILLS MILDRED B → PLANTATIONS BANK OF RHODE ISLAND · book 41 p 197
▶ 1967 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → BERESFORD HARRY G; BERESFORD MARION E · book 42 p 124
▶ 1967 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → FALCONE ANGELO J; FALCONE JANICE E · book 41 p 632
▶ 1971 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → FALCONE ANGELO J; FALCONE JANICE E · book 44 p 601
▶ 1977 · DEED · GRILLS MILDRED B → REDDY WILLIAM C · book 56 p 147
▶ 1983 · ASSIGNMENT · BERESFORD HARRY G; CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK → RHODE ISLAND HOUSING & MORT FINC CORP · book 71 p 877

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
238 We, John Beresford and Eliza Beresford, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to William Beresford, Harry G. Beresford and Mildred B. Grills, all of said Town of Charlestown, and W. Wallace Beresford of the Town of Westerly, said County and State with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS That certain tract or parcel of Land situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the southerly boundary line of land of these Grantors; said point being 77 feet, more or less, easterly from the State Highway and at the northeasterly corner of stone steps between the lands of the Grantors and Grantees; thence running northerly a distance Two (2) feet; thence running easterly, maintaining a distance northerly a distance of Two (2) feet distant from and parallel to a stone wall and in continuation thereof, a distance of Twenty-nine (29) feet; thence turning and running southerly, maintaining a distance of Two (2) feet distant from and parallel to a wall, or foundation of a building now used as a garage, a distance of Thirteen (13) feet; thence turning and running approximately in a northeasterly direction in a straight line to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. Meaning and intending to convey a triangular tract of land together with part of a building that appears to be located partly on premises of these Grantors and partly on premises of these Grantees. The consideration of this deed is less than one hundred dollars. WITNESS our hands this 25th day of July 1944. JOHN BERESFORD ELIZA E. BERESFORD STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington } In Charlestown, on the 25th day of July, 1944, before me personally appeared John Beresford and Eliza Beresford, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record August 1st, A. D. 1944 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m. and recorded by [?] Notary Public.

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.