The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 7649

5/8/1923 · DEED · book 20 page 472 doc 7649

From BARBER EMMA E life
To CROSS GEORGE W life
Premises there fourths of an acre · undivided one half part of a certain lot or parcel (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

deed Thomas J. Hopkins and wife book 15 p 193 Charlestown
“connected with William G. Coomes by Thomas J. Hopkins and wife in deed dated March 22, 1925”
◀ Follow back 1905 · DEED · PARROTT G WALDO; PARROTT LILLIAN M → WALCOTT NELLIE L; WALCOTT NELSON H · book 15 p 193
read by: gemma

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 · DEED · BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS MARIA G → WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 20 p 470
▶ 1924 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS MARIA G → BURDICK ALVAH L · book 21 p 295
▶ 1936 · DEED · CROSS GEORGE W → BROWN GLADYS T; BROWN LINTON L · book 26 p 365
▶ 1938 · DEED · BARBER EMMA E; CROSS GEORGE W; CROSS WILLIAM D DECEASED → JACKSON JOHN W · book 27 p 336

The instrument's own words

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472 Know all men by these presents, that I Emma E. Barber (widow) of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island in consideration of the sum of ten dollars to me paid by George T. Lopes of said Charlestown the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged of me hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto him the said George T. Lopes for himself his heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest property, claim and demand whatever until now have a right of way night to drive in clear, and to the undivided one half part of a certain lot or parcel of land situated in the village of Charlestown in said Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: commencing at the southeast corner of some of said lot at the southeast corner of lot formerly of William G. Coomes on the highway and running westerly on said highway six rods to a post formerly of Jonathan Tucker and nightly then north thirty ninety rods to the land formerly of said William G. Coomes then northly says rods to the northwest corner of said William G. Coomes then westerly says rods to the northwest corner of a lot formerly of said William G. Coomes then easterly by said land several rods twenty rods to the place of beginning and containing there fourths of an acre, Being the lane betw. my lot connected with William G. Coomes by Thomas J. Hopkins and wife in deed dated March 22, 1925 and recorded in land Evidence of said Charlestown, Vol 15, page 193. To have and to hold the same with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining unto and to the use of the said George T. Lopes for himself his heirs and assigns forever. And I the undersigned Emma E. Barber for myself and for my heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant with the said George T. Lopes his heirs and assigns that I do warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to the said George T. Lopes his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming thereby through me or under me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty three, Signed and sealed in presence of Albert & Doone Emma E. Barber L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington At Charlestown on the 30th day of April AD 1923 before me personally appeared Emma E. Barber known to me and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and the acknowledged said instrument to be her free act and deed George Lopes Notary Public Received for record May 8th 1923 at 9-15 o'clock AM, and recorded by George Lopes for Emma Barber
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,) } County of Providence { } In Providence on the 22nd day of September, 1962 before me personally appeared Richard Wendall Phelps and wife, Esther Phelps, 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. LEO N. COOKE Notary Public Received for record October 2nd, A. D. 1962 at 1:21 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk EDWIN LE ROY PHELPS of the City of Washington, District of Columbia for consideration paid, grant to DANIEL F. MEAKEY, of the City of Cranston, County of Providence and State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS (Description, and Incumbrances, if any) That certain tract or parcel of land situated in Quonset Point in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, described in Lot No. 50 on a certain plan or plat entitled, "Summer Acres, property of Charleston Estates, Inc., Quonsetpoint, Charlestown, R. I., scale 1 inch equals 80 feet, November 1962, Ross & Lewis, Surveyors." Said plat being recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book 1134, Page 117, and more fully as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the parcel herein conveyed at a point on the easterly side of North Avenue, so called, and said point also marking the southeasterly corner of land of Arthur E. Rochborn, et als; thence westerly along the midline of North Avenue south 81 degrees 15 minutes west, to the northwesterly southwesterly corner of the premises herein conveyed; thence easterly a distance of Two Hundred Seventy- five (275) feet, more or less, to a point; thence north 15 degrees 15 minutes east, a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet, more or less, to a point; thence northerly along said wine a distance of Seventy-five (75) feet, more or less, to the north- easterly corner of the premises herein conveyed, which point is on the boundary of the Town of Charlestown; (268) feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning. Bounded westerly by Northsider Avenue, so called, southerly by land of Robert G. Truncale and wife, easterly by a stone wall and nort east ly by land of Arthur E. Rochborn, et als. The consideration for this deed is said that no revenue stamps are required. The purpose of this deed is to release all right, title and interest of the grantor in the above described premises after having attained the age of twenty-one. LO ANN PHELPS the wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforedescribed premises. WITNESS our hands this 22nd day of September 1962. EDWIN LE ROY PHELPS LO ANN CURA PHELPS STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,) } County of Providence { } In Providence on the 22nd day of September, 1962 before me personally appeared Edwin LeRoy Phelps and wife Lo Ann Phelps 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. LEO N. COOKE Notary Public Received for record October 2nd, A. D. 1962 at 1:22 o'clock, p. 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.