The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 6774@37/461 › 7114@38/78

8/23/1961 · DEED · book 38 page 78 doc 7114@38/78

From RICHARD CARL M, RICHARD LOUISE Q
To SMITH DAVID I life, SMITH LORETTA W
Premises none · Tract bounded by State Highway and a brook (Village of Shannock, Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED SYLVIA FLORENCE D; SYLVIA JOHN V

Back — where this land came from

deed Richard Martin, Administrator of the Estate of Richard Martin deceased book 1 p 44 Charlestown
“conveyed to the grantor by Richard Martin... by deed dated December 1, 1960 and recorded... in Book 1 No. 27 Page 44”
◀ Follow back 1741 · DEED · CONGDON JAMES JR → CONGDON JOHN · book 1 p 44
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1960 · DEED · MARTIN DENNIS; MARTIN DENNIS B; MARTIN RICHARD F; MARTIN RUTH A; MARTI → RICHARD CARL M · book 37 p 461
◀ 1961 · MORTGAGE · BARBER NORMA E; BARBER WILLIAM O JR → RICHARD CARL M · book 38 p 113
◀ 1959 · DEED · RICHARD JAMES G BY COM; RICHARD MARGUERITE BY COM → RICHARD CARL M · book 36 p 665

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 · MORTGAGE · SMITH DAVID I; SMITH LORETTA W → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 37 p 549
▶ 1972 · DEED · SMITH DAVID I; SMITH LORETTA W → SMITH LORETTA W; WESTON GEORGE W SR; SMITH DAVID I · book 45 p 535
▶ 1977 · DEED · SMITH DAVID I; SMITH LORETTA W; WESTON GEORGE W SR → SMITH LORETTA W; SMITH DAVID I · book 56 p 553
▶ 1977 · MORTGAGE · SMITH DAVID I; SMITH LORETTA W → OLD COLONY CO-OPERATIVE BANK · book 56 p 554

Today — the assessor's parcel

50 CEDAR ROAD map 11 lot 422
owner of record: SARACENO CHRISTOPHER J & RITA L · SINGLE FAM MDL-01
the assessor cites book/page 0038/0078 (SYLVIA, JOHN V & FLORENCE D, 05/12/1966)
02/28/2002SARACENO CHRISTOPHER J & RITA Lbook 212 p 21
08/20/1973SYLVIA JOHN Vbook 49 p 73
05/12/1966SYLVIA, JOHN V & FLORENCE Dbook 38 p 78
the assessor's card ↗

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
78 WARRANTY DEED KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, CARL M. RICHARD, of the Town of Richmond, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to DAVID I. SMITH and LORETTA W. SMITH, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as JOINT TENANTS and not as Tenants-in-Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS: A certain tract or parcel of land, located in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Of beginning at a Point on the State Highway which leads through the Village of Shannock at a brook, thence running in a general northerly direction along said brook a distance of Three Hundred Thirty (330) feet to the granite wing on the opposite side of said brook to land of the grantees; thence turning and running in a general westerly direction a distance of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet to an iron pipe set in the ground; thence turning in a general northerly direction a distance of One Hundred Seventy (170) feet along the line of land of the grantees a distance of One Hundred Seventy (170) feet to another iron pipe set in the ground; thence turning on a south westerly direction along the line of land of the grantees, a distance of Two hundred Twentyone (221) feet to the State Highway which leads through the Village of Shannock; thence turning and running in a general southerly direction along said highway a distance of One Hundred Thirty-four (134) feet to the point and place of beginning. Meaning and intending to convey a portion of the premises conveyed to the grantor by Richard Martin, Administrator of the Estate of Richard Martin deceased by deed dated December 1, 1960 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island in Book 1 No. 27 Page 44 (of said book). And for the consideration aforesaid, I, Louise Q. Richard, wife of the grantor, release to said grantees all my right of dower and cogage and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 18 day of August, 1961. CARL M. RICHARD LOUISE Q. RICHARD (DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢s) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In the Town of Richmond, on the 18 day of August, 1961, before me personally appeared CARL M. RICHARD and LOUISE Q. RICHARD, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. DAVID A. ABBOTT (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record August 23rd, A. D. 1961 at 9:25 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- WARRANTY DEED We, THOMAS R. BROPHY and wife, LENA E. BROPHY, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for consideration paid, grant to JOHN V. SILVIA and wife, FLORENCE D. SILVIA, of North Providence, Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS: Those two (2n) certain lots or parcels of land with any buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, laid out and numberedized as lots number one hundred twenty eight (128) and three hundred thirty-three (333) and their plat, OCEAN RIDGE Plat No Three in the Town of Charlestown, R. I. Property of the State of Rhode I. Island, Former Proprietors of the Town of Charlestown and South Kingstown, all together, which plat is of record in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Charlestown in Plat Book 2. Together with the right to use the roads and streets as they are Laid out upon the plat hereinbefore referred to and all easements appertaining thereto in common with the owners of lots number forty (40) feet in width designated as "Private Right of Way", and the park and boat Landing laid out and designated as "Park and Boat Landing" and the boat Landing designated as "Boat Landing", recorded in the Office of the Town Clerk in Charlestown in Plat Book 2, and in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of South Kingstown in said State in Plat Book 8A at page 197. This conveyance is made subject to restrictions and reservations of record, and to real estate taxes of record.

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.