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9/12/1961 · DEED · book 38 page 98 doc 7141@38/98

From DUCKWORTH CARRIE E
To CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF life
Premises 3.309 Acres · Parcel delineated as Area 1 on plat by W. P. Easter (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

◀ 1951 · DEED · DUCKWORTH CARRIE E; DUCKWORTH MILTON → DUCKWORTH MILTON; DUCKWORTH CARRIE E · book 32 p 554

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 assessor does not cite book 38 page 98 (its history for each parcel goes back only a few transfers). 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
98 of any of the same, it shall be lawful for the mortgagee to sell the above described premises pursuant to said STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. And for the consideration aforesaid, I HERBERT C. RATHBONE, husband of Helen S. Rathbone, one of the mortgagors herein, release to the mortgagee all my right of dower and all other rights, statutory and otherwise, in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS hand this 8th day of September 1961. Executed in the presence of CHARLES C. BUFFUM HERBERT C. RATHBONE HELEN S. RATHBONE JANICE V. RATHBONE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Westerly, on the 8th day of September, 1961, before me personally appeared the above named HELEN S. RATHBONE and her husband, HERBERT C. RATHBONE, and JANICE V. RATHBONE, single, all to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and severely acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed. LILLIAN M. RUSIE, Notary Public Received for record September 12th, A.D. 1961 at 9:15 o'clock A.M. and recorded by [Signature] Deputy Town Clerk (For discharge of above mortgage see Book 38, page 98) ---- QUITCLAIM DEED I, CARRIE E. DUCKWORTH, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid pin, in the amount of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) grant to the Town of Charlestown, an incorporated Town of the State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM grants That certain parcel or tract of land, situate in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point marked by a drilled hole 1/2 inch by 4 inches at the southeasterly corner of the remainder herein conveyed and at the northeast corner of property of General Sterling Inn Corporation; thence bearing northwest 31° 15' east, bounded southeasterly by land of said General Sterling Inn Corporation a distance of 111.41 feet to a point; thence 1/2 inch in circle near the top of a spiked boulder on the southerly boundary of the property in intersection with the center line of said road marking a point; thence bearing north 31° 15' east 117.5 feet to a point; thence bearing north 31° 15' east a distance of 379.99 feet to the northeasterly corner of other premises of this grantor; other of other premises of this grantor and at the northeasterly corner of the remainder herein conveyed and terminating at the northeasterly corner, bounded northerly by other premises of this grantor, a distance of 111.41 feet to a point; thence bearing south 58° 45' west, a distance of 379.99 feet to this grantor, a distance of 263.47 feet to the point and place of beginning. Meaning and intending to convey the premises shown and delineated as "Area 1, 3.309 Acres" on that map or plat entitled, "Tract of Land belonging to Carrie E. Duckworth, P.P., to be conveyed by Carrie E. Duckworth to the Town of Charlestown. Surveyed & Platted Aug., 1961, W. P. Easter books, Civil Engineering, Scale 1" = 60'" said plat being here with made and filed with the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, and said Town of Charlestown once to said plat being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises herein conveyed. I, Carrie E. Duckworth, covenant that I am a widow and have not remarried. WITNESS my hand this 25th day of August, 1961. CARRIE E. DUCKWORTH STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Charlestown, on the 25th day of August, 1961, before me personally appeared Carrie E. Duckworth, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. CHARLES J. LINK, Senator Received for record September 12th, A.D. 1961 at 9:20 O'clock A.M. and recorded by [Signature] Deputy 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.