The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 67@28/226

6/8/1940 · MORTGAGE · book 28 page 226 doc 67@28/226

From NURMI MINNIE, NURMI OTTO
To WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Premises tract designated as Cartwright Land (Charlestown)
Index description W BEACH RD

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 · CHARLESTOWN ESTATES INC → NURMI MINNIE; NURMI OTTO · book 28 p 225
◀ 1940 · DEED · CHARLESTOWN ESTATES → NURMI MINNIE; NURMI OTTO · book 28 p 317

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 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

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
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 1939, SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the taxpayers of 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 therefore of $1.30 on 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, George R. Holbertson, d.e.h.o., neglected to pay the tax assessed against it as expressed in said tax bill amounting to Two Dollars Sixty Cents ($2.60) and in consequence thereof I did on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1940 levy said warrant upon certain tract or parcel of land shown and designated as Cartwright Land, and appearing on Original Tax List and Tax Bill, 1939 (also notice of levy served according to law), belonging to said George R. Holbertson, d.e.h.o. in said Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at four public places in said Town of Charlestown, viz: Wright's Garage, the store of E. C. Brown & Son, Grinnell's Garage and the post office at Charlestown, R. 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., Day-light Saving 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 Sylvester J. Capaldo, acting as agent for himself and Ruth B. Capaldo, was the highest bidder. NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of Eleven Dollars Seventeen Cents ($11.17) to me paid by said Sylvester J. Capaldo the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey unto said Sylvester J. Capaldo and Ruth B. Capaldo and Ruth B. Capaldo, their heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest which said George R. Holbertson, d.e.h.o. had in and to said premises at the time of assessing of said tax, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging; for a description of said premises, reference is hereby had and made to the Original Tax List and Tax Bill 1939 and to the Records of Land Evidence of said Town of Charlestown. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Sylvester J. Capaldo and Ruth B. Capaldo, their heirs 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 Sylvester J. Capaldo and Ruth B. Capaldo, their heirs 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 and 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 he acknowledged said instrument, to be 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 10:10 o'clock, a. m. and recorded by [?] 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.