The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
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2/28/1923 · DEED · book 20 page 417 doc 7619

From CHURCH ASA life, CHURCH KATIE D life
To SPEAR CARRIE V H
Premises not stated · tract with dwelling house and improvements (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

◀ 1916 · DEED · CARPENTER WANTON R; CARPENTER NELLIE M → CHURCH ASA · book 18 p 361
◀ 1902 · DEED · WELLS BENJAMIN E; WELLS SARAH L → CHURCH ASA · book 14 p 303
◀ 1900 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CARPENTER WANTON R → CHURCH ASA; CHURCH KATIE D · book 14 p 311
◀ 1894 · DEED · CHURCH ALBERT; CHURCH HANNAH E → CHURCH ASA · book 13 p 17

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

▶ 1923 · MORTGAGE · SPEAR CARRIE V H → COY FRANK W · book 20 p 418
▶ 1924 · MORTGAGE · SPEAR CARRIE V H → RIVER BEND CEMETERY CO · book 21 p 365
▶ 1940 · DEED · SPEAR CARRIE V H → SPEAR ELEANOR · book 28 p 256
▶ 1948 · DEED · SPEAR CARRIE V H → HEARN JOHN H JR; HEARN CAROLYN B · book 31 p 277

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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Know all Men by these presents That I Asa Branch of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the grantor in consideration of Ten Dollars from one paid by Jeanne L N Peterson of Paterson in the State of New Jersey hereinafter called the grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown with a dwelling house and other improvements thereon bounded and described as follows beginning at a small nail at the north west corner of said tract of land the first bound running westerly with said nail more or less to a fence thence southerly with said fence about one hundred feet more or less to a fence thence easterly following said fence about two hundred and twenty feet more or less to another nail the second bound runningly following said nail about nine fanned feet more or less to said third nail bounding Northerly Easterly and westerly by land of the grantor the fourth boundly bounding southerly by said third nail about two hundred and fifty feet more or less to the place of beginning or however the same may be bounded The grantor hereby quitclaims unto the said grantee her heirs and assigns all his right title and interest in and to any land lying between land above conveyed and the present bay off the West highway which may ascend to said land by means of the shoulder road more or less for a highway To have and to hold the aforesaid premises with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto and for the use of the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever And the said grantor is hereby seised and for my heirs executors and administrators expectant with the said grantee and her heirs and assigns that I have lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises that the same is free from all encumbrances that I have and a right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid that the said grantee and her heirs and assigns shall by these present at all times hence forward peacefully and quietly have and enjoy the said premises and that I the said grantor with all my heirs successors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons And for the consideration I said Asa Branch of said town of Charlestown do hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said grantee and her heirs and assigns forever In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 1st day of February in the year of our lord one
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502 and ARLENE L. MORRIS, to me known and known by me to be the persons executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. HAROLD B. SOLEWITZKE Notary Public Received for record September 14th A.D. 1962 at 1:16 o'clock p.m., and recorded by [Signature] Deputy Town Clerk I, HAZEL J. DEPNER, formerly of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, now of Quincy, Illinois, for considera- tion paid, grant to WILLIAM D. CROSS and CELIA M. CROSS, husband and wife, both of Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as JOINT TENANTS and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS Those six (6) certain lots or parcels of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Wash- ton and State of Rhode Island, and shown and delineated as Lots Numbers 456, 457, 458, 459, 460 and 495 on that certain plat or map entitled, "Charlestown by the Sea Owned and Developed by Thomas F. Reilly, location Charlestown, Rhode Island, scale 1" = 100", dated July 25, 1954, K. W. Leighton, Civil Engineer, New Haven", and filed in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Flat Book 2, Pages 1/4 and 15. This conveyance is subject to restrictions as contained on said Map. Being the same property described in deed of Thomas J. Reilly to Rudolph J. Depner and Hazel Depner dated October 16th, 1944 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book No. 25, Page 604. Title in the above described premises being vested in the Grantor by the aforementioned deed and as devisee under the will of said Rudolph J. Depner; exemplified copy of said will being on file with the Records of Probate, said Town of Charlestown. I, Hazel J. Depner, covenant that I am a widow and have not remarried. WITNESS my hand this 11th day of September, 1962. (Documentary stamp .55) [Signature] Hazel J. Depner STATE of Illinois COUNTY of Adams In Quincy, Illinois, on the 11th day of September, 1962 before me personally appeared Hazel J. Depner, 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. [Signature] Mildred Fredrove Notary Public (Notarial Seal) My Commission expires March 27, 1965 CERTIFICATE CONFIRMING SIGNATURE OF NOTARY PUBLIC STATE of ILLINOIS, } ss. County of Adams, } ss. I, Arthur F. Witte, County Clerk in and for said County, do hereby certify that Mildred Fredrove... whose name is subscribed to the proof of acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing, was, at the time of taking such proof of acknowledgement, a Notary Public in and for said County of Adams, duly commissioned, sworn and acting as such and authorized to take acknowledgements and proofs of deeds or conveyances of lands, tenements or hereditaments in said State of Illinois, and to administer oaths; all of which appears from the records and files in my office; that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary Public and verily believe that the signature to the said proof of acknowledgement is genuine; and further that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of Illinois. In Testimony Whereof, I have entered by my hand and affixed the seal of my office in the City of Quincy in said County, this 11th day of September, A.D. 1962. ARTHUR F. WITTE (seal) Received for record September 14th A.D. 1962 at 9:00 o'clock p.m. and recorded by [Signature] Deputy Town Clerk

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