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5/24/1923 · DEED · book 20 page 473 doc 7650

From BARBER EMMA E life
To CROSS GEORGE W life
Premises undivided one half part · tract of land with buildings on Charlestown Beach (Charlestown Beach, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

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

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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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 parcel or tract of land situated in Quonset Point in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, described in Lot Number 50 on a certain plan or plat entitled, "Summer Acres, property of Charleston Estates, Inc., Quonset Point, Charlestown, R. I., scale 1 inch equals 50 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 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 10 degrees 30 minutes west, to the southwesterly corner of the premises herein conveyed; thence easterly a distance of Two Hundred Seventy- five (275) feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of land of Arthur E. Rochborn, et als; thence northerly (268) feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed; thence westerly thence northerly along said stone wall a distance of Seventy-five (75) feet, more or less, to the north- easterly corner of the premises herein conveyed; thence northwestward 11 degrees 15 minutes (268) feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning. Bounded westerly by North 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 to be such 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
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474: known and seal this 24th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty three. Signed sealed and sealed in presence of Duston B. Bromie. Emma E. Bailer. L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington at Charlestown on the 24th day of May, A.D. 1923. before me personally appeared Emma E. Bailer to me known, and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her hand sealed, to be her free act and deed. George A. Coone Mary W. Bliss. Received for record May 24th 1923, at 10 15 o'clock a.m. and recorded by George A. Coone Fam Clerk. KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that that satisfactory M. G. Ransom of Meriden, State of Connecticut hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of Ten Doll[ars] bot paid to me paid by Harriet E. Bailer of the town of Providence, State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant bargain sell and convey unto said Grantee, her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest property claim and demand which I have, or of a right ought to have, or claim, to and from undivided one half part of the certain tract of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon situate on Charlestown Beach in said town of Charlestown and bounded and described as follows, beginning at the south west corner of that tract of land at the southeast corner of land now or formerly of Stephen B. Bromie; Thence northerly bounding partly by said Bromie's land to the highway; Thence Easterly bounding on Easterly on said highway fifty feet, Thence Southerly bounding Easterly by land now of Beverly E. Bernard & Brooks to the rear Thence westerly bounding the said fifty feet to the place of beginning, or however otherwise bounded to be parting with said Grantee.

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