The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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9/1/1916 · DEED · book 18 page 379 doc 7047

From ARNOLD THOMAS L life, ARNOLD MARY N life
To DUDLEY MARY OTIS
Premises none · 20 foot strip for electric and telephone lines (South Butter Lane, 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

◀ 1911 · DEED · ELLINGWOOD HORATIA C; ELLINGWOOD CHARLES H → ARNOLD THOMAS L · book 17 p 188
◀ 1906 · DEED · VIDAND ROBERT P; VIDAND FLORENCE W → ARNOLD MARY N · book 15 p 326
◀ 1915 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GREENE FRANK A ADMINISTRATOR; GREENE MARY H ESTATE OF → ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N · book 16 p 327
◀ 1911 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · DOREMUS ALBERT T → ARNOLD FRANK W; ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N; ARNOLD GERTRUDE P · book 15 p 393

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

▶ 1921 · DEED · DUDLEY MARY OTIS → DUDLEY HAYDEN · book 19 p 499

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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369 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Westerly on the 28th day of October, 1948 before me personally appeared John S. Burdick and Myra W. Burdick to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the fore- going instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. NELSON H. THORP Notary Public. Received for record November 3rd, A. D. 1948 at 9:00 o'clock, a m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk We, LEO C. DUREAU and MARY A. DUREAU, husband and wife, of the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Is- land, (hereinafter called the Grantors), for nominal consideration paid, grant to the USNRRA Government Agency, (hereinafter called the Grantee), its successors and assigns, with Warranty Covenants, the right and easement to construct, recon- struct, repair, maintain and operate for the distribution of electric current and for telephone service, lines of poles or towers, with guy wires, and at different times and places, wires and cables strung upon and from the same, and with all necessary crossarms, racks, guys, braces, insulators, fittings and other equipment usually used therefore, a strip of land 20 feet upon the Grantors' land on the westerly side of a street commonly known as South Butter Lane in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island. Said line to enter from said South Butter Lane and extend in a westerly direction 500 feet from the edge of the right of way of said South Butter Lane and the location of the poles to be as shown on a map attached hereto as "A". Also the right and easement, from time to time, to trim and keep trimmed such trees as may be necessary for the safe and proper operation of the said line and to remove, replace, add to and change the change the location of the poles, towers and other equipment; and to prune trees the Grantors' land to and from said line as reasonably required for all the above purposes; together with the right to permit and allow the attachment of wires, cables and equipment of any other Company. It is agreed that the said line shall remain the property of the Grantee, its successors and assigns. WITNESS our hands and seals hits 28th day of October, 1948. Witness: Linton L. Brown as to both. LEO C. DUREAU MARY A. DUREAU STATE of RHODE ISLAND) SC. COUNTY of WASHINGTON) In Charlestown in said County on the 20th day of October, 1948, before me personally appeared the above named Grantors, LEO C. DUREAU and MARY A. DUREAU, 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 (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record November 3rd, A. D. 1948 at 10:30 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.