The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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7/5/1962 · DEED · book 38 page 392 doc 7492@38/392

From POTIGNON HELEN E, STEELE HELEN E, STEELE JAMES A JR
To BROWNING EVELYN W, BROWNING MAURICE A life
Premises none · Two lots including Lot 47 and an adjacent tract (Charlestown, Sandy Beach, Shirley Road)

Back — where this land came from

unknown book 14 p 82 Charlestown
“From town clerks office, Charlestown, R.I., Book 14, Page 82, 3.”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma
deed Henry's Spouse book 16 p 83 Charlestown
“deed of Henry's Spouse to the Grantor, dated November 23, 1907, and recorded in town clerks office, Charlestown, R.I., Book 16 page 83”
◀ Follow back 1908 · EASEMENT · GREEN HENRY S → PROVIDENCE TELEPHONE CO · book 16 p 83
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1959 · DEED · STEELE JAMES A JR → STEELE HELEN S · book 37 p 53
◀ 1956 · DEED · DUSSAULT RICHARD V; DUSSAULT SARAH A → POTIGNON HELEN E; POTIGNON PETER W · book 35 p 250
◀ 1953 · DEED · COHN SYDNEY; GRAICHEN EVERETT R; GRAICHEN LUCY → STEELE HELEN S; STEELE JAMES A JR · book 33 p 440
◀ 1959 · MORTGAGE · BROWNING EVELYN E; BROWNING MAURICE A → DUSSAULT RICHARD V; DUSSAULT SARAH A; POTIGNON HELEN E · book 36 p 685
◀ 1956 · DEED · POTIGNON HELEN E → POTIGNON HELEN E; POTIGNON PETER W · book 35 p 249
◀ 1952 · DEED · COHN HELEN; COHN SYDNEY; GRAICHEN EVERETT R; GRAICHEN LUCY → POTIGNON HELEN E · book 33 p 266

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

▶ 1962 · DEED · BROWNING EVELYN E; BROWNING MAURICE A → PHELAN NANCY N; PHELAN ROBERT F · book 38 p 393

The instrument's own words

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392 I, HELEN E. STEELE, (Nee Helen E. Potignon), of the City of Springfield, Commonwealth of Massachus- setts for consideration paid, grant to MAURICE A. BROWNING and EVELYN W. BROWNING, husband and wife, both of the Town of Stonington, County of New London and State of Connecticut, as JOINT TENANTS and not as Tenants in Common, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, and if any.) Those two certain lots or tracts of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the town of "Charlestown," county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: FIRST TRACT: Being lot Number 47 (forty-seven) on that Plat entitled, "Section No. 1 Sandy Beach in Westerly, R.I.," Belonging to Severin Gratton & Stephen Gony, Clifford R. Stewart, Surveyor, May 1949. Revised June 17, 1949, said Plat is recorded in Plat Book No. 2 in the Land Evidence records of said Town of Charlestown. SECOND TRACT: beginning at a stone bounds on the easterly side of Shirley Road, said point of beginning being the Northeasterly corner of Lot Number 47 as shown on plat cited above; thence running South 15 degrees 30 minutes East, by the median a Stephen Gony, Clifford R. Stewart, Surveyor, May 1949, Revised June 17, 1949, said plat is recorded in the Land Evid- ence Record, of said town, Plat Book No. 2, page 2, thence running northeasterly a distance of five (5) feet, bounded westerly by said Browning road thence an angle of 200 degrees 15' running southeasterly 22 feet, bounded northerly by said Lot 47, thence turning an angle of 180 15'; thence running easterly 132 feet bounded northerly on said land on now or formerly by Richard V. Dunsmalt et al to commencing point, thence running southerly bounded easterly by [?] running a distance of 200 feet, bounded easterly by said lot, to the southerly boundary of said Lot no. 47; thence westerly 107 feet to the point and place of beginning. This conveyance is made subject to incumbrances and restrictions of record. I, JAMES A. STEELE, Jr. husband of the grantor release to grantees all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 28th day of June 1962. HELEN E. STEELE nee Helen E. Potignon JAMES A. STEELE, Jr. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS } ss. County of Hampden } In Springfield, Mass. on the 28th day of June, 1962 before me personally appeared Helen E. Steels and her husband, James A. Steels, Jr. 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. FREDERICK S. PILLSBURY Notary Public COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS } ss. County of Hampden } I, EDWARD G. SHEA, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Frederick S. Pillsbury whose name is subscribed to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, was at the time of his taking the acknowledgment aforesaid, and remains a Notary Public, commissioned and sworn, and qualified to act as such; that as such Notary Public, he is duly authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to take the acknowledgment and proofs of deeds or conveyances for lands, tenements or hereditaments in said Commonwealth, and that his signature is identical with the handwriting of said Notary Public, and verily believe his signature to the same is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Springfield, in said County of Hampden, this 28th day of June A. D. 1962. EDWARD G. SHEA (L. S.) Clerk Received for record July 5th, A. D. 1962 at 9:53 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.