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8/20/1921 · DEED · book 19 page 495 doc 7418

From NELSON ANNA, NELSON GABRIEL
To STOKES J GRAHAM PHELPS
Premises eighty done · parcel of land including lots 1-6 Indian Cedar Swamp (Charlestown, Indian Cedar Swamp, Kings Island, Saw Mill River)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE DOWNEY HILDA A; DOWNEY JOHN V

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

◀ 1920 · DEED · MACDONALD JOHN N; MACDONALD J ETTA → NELSON ANNA; NELSON GABRIEL · book 19 p 303
◀ 1921 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · WILCOX WILLIAM A; SEIDNER SOPHIE → NELSON ANNA; NELSON GABRIEL · book 19 p 426

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, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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495 parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed. William A. Olney Notary Public L.S. Received for record August 18th 1921 at 3-05 o'clock P.M. and entered by George W. Brown Tom Clerk For transfer of foregoing mortgage see Book 21 Page 246 I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the entire mortgage, recorded in the records of land evidence in the town of Charlestown in the state of Rhode Island in mortgage book number 19 at page 495 duly cancel and discharge the same, and I covenant to and with the person making and paying the same from the current owner of said mortgage and the same mortgage recorded in book 21 page 246 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15th day of August, AD 1921. Signed in the presence of William A. Olney John R. Healy recorded Aug. 15 1921 by George W. Brown Tom Clerk Know all men by these presents, that we Gabriel Nelson and Anna Nelson, his wife, both of Charlestown, Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantors, in consideration of the sum of Dollars to be paid by J. Abraham Elkins States of, 88 Grove Street New York City, New York, hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, all that certain piece or parcel of land situate in the town of Charlestown, aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows, Beginning at the intersection of the stone wall along the highway with the stone wall which is the East Boundary of the property of Peter Peter Lawson, and running along said stone wall and the continuation thereof South forty three (33) degrees west two thousand or one hundred ninety three (2193) feet to a stone post forty three degrees fort one (41) degree East, one hundred forty three (143) feet, loop (6) inches to a stone post at the North west corner of lot no, six (6) Indian Cedar Swamp, South boundary as filed in the office of the town Clerk of Charlestown, R.I., thence South eighty eight (88) degrees fifteen (15) minutes East to a stone post at the northerly end of the center line of lot no, six (6), thence in a southerly direction one hundred twenty (120) feet to the southern boundary line of lots one (1) to six (6), thence Easterly to the south east
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496 corner of lot No five (5); thence in a North easterly direction to the north east corner of said lot No five (5); thence South eighty three (83) degrees fifteen (15) minutes East to a stone post at the North east corner of lot No four (4); thence in an Easterly direction to a stone post at the South east corner of lot No one (1); thence North thirty (30) minutes East six hundred forty (640) feet to a stone post on the south bank of the main branch of said brook brook; thence along the center line of said brook in an Easterly direction to a concrete post on the north bank of the brook; thence North eighteen (18) degrees thirty (30) minutes East to a concrete post near a big pine tree on the corner of three walls, five hundred fifty (550) feet; thence South forty five (45) degrees five (5) minutes West to a line parallel to the North easterly boundary line of lot four (4) five (5) and six (6) and three hundred forty four (344) feet; thence North eighty three (83) degrees fifteen (15) minutes East to a line parallel with the first above mentioned line North thirty three (33) degrees East, seventeen hundred fifty (1750) feet thence North thirty three (33) degrees East, seventeen hundred fifty (1750) feet to a concrete post; thence South forty six (46) degrees West three thousand thirty (3030) feet to the point of line of beginning, containing about eighty done be the same more or less. To have and to hold the above granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto and to the use of the said buyer, and to his heirs and assigns forever. And the said grantors do hereby, for themselves and for their heirs, executors and administrators covenant with the said buyer and his heirs and assigns that they are lawfully seized in fee simple of the above described premises, that the same are free from all encumbrances, that they have good right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; that the said buyer and his heirs and assigns shall have entry at all times forever peacefully and quietly have and enjoy the said premises; and that they and their heirs grantors will and their heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said buyer and his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. And for the consideration aforesaid the said Anna Nelson does hereby release all her right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said buyer and his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 5th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred twenty one.
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497 Signed and delivered in presence of Barbor Cornick Hank William A. Wilcox Anna Nelson L.S. Gabriel Nelson L.S. State of Connecticut County of New London S.S. On Domingon on the 5th day of August A.D. 1921 before me personally appeared Anna Nelson, to me known and known to me to be the party who signed the foregoing instrument and the acknowledged said instrument by her executed to be her free act and deed. William A. Wilcox L.S. Notary Public L.S. my commission expires Feb. 21 1924 State of Connecticut County of New London S.S. On this 13th day of August, 1921 before me personally appeared Gabriel Nelson, to me known and known to me to be the party sealing the foregoing instrument and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed. William A. Wilcox L.S. Notary Public L.S. Received for record August 20th 1921 at 9 oclock thr and recorded by George G. Coover Town clerk For Deed see next page
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G. P. Ventum Public Highway PROPERTY ACQUIRED FROM GABRIEL NELSON & WIFE A. Tucker Gabriel Nelson Collins Valentine S. Ennis T. Frandall Heirs of R. Frandall Sylvia A. Davis Geo. Browning T. Frandall KINGS ISLAND Saw Mill River FARM RECLAMATION CO. NEW YORK CITY PROPERTIED FROM GABRIEL NELSON & WIFE CHARLESTOWN, R.I. Surveyed by S. Moore R.E. & L.S.

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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.