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7/7/1923 · DEED · book 20 page 480 doc 7655

From BANK OF NEW YORK AND TRUST CO, ROGERS J AUGUSTUS ESTATE OF
To PROSSER ISAAC life
Premises 33 acres and 773 acres · Locksmiths Farm and adjacent land bounding on Narragansett Ocean and Silver Mill creek (Charlestown, Narragansett Ocean, Silver Mill creek, Watched Dog Pond)

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deed Seth Hazard book 12 p 181 Charlestown
“conveyed by a deed of Seth Hazard to J. Augustus Rogers dated April 11th 1888”
◀ Follow back 1890 · DEED · ARNOLD ROBERT C; ARNOLD LUCY E → BROWN ALBERT E; BROWN EDWARD C · book 12 p 181
read by: gemma
will Augustus Rogers
“sole Executor of the last will and testament of Augustus Rogers”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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⛔ 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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480 operators and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever against all lawful claims and demands of all persons; and for the consideration aforesaid, I Gertrude Burdick wife of the aforesaid Charles Burdick, do hereby release all my right title and interest in and to the said granted premises unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 22nd day of June in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty three. Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of S. B. Barber, atty at law Charles Burdick L.S. Gertrude Burdick L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington On this day the 22nd day of June AD 1923, before me personally appeared Charles Burdick and Gertrude Burdick husband and wife to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and that they acknowledge said instrument by their signatures to be their free act and deed. Oscar E. Barber Notary Public L.S. Received for record June 22nd 1923 at 2.30 o'clock a.m. and recorded by George G. Cozzens Town Clerk. Know all men by these presents that the Bank of New York and Lausanne Partnership, namely the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, in its capacity as sole Executor of the last will and testament of Augustus Rogers, late of White Plains in the County of Westchester State of New York, deceased, by virtue and in exercise of the power vested in and authorized given to it as said Executor in said last will and testament and in pursuance of the directions therein contained and for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand (1000) Dollars and other valuable considerations to it paid by Isaac J. Bowler of Cherokee Falls in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged for
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181 does hereby grant bargain sell and convey unto him the said Isaac Passmore his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple, That piece of all such land situated in the Town of Charlestown County of Washington and state of Rhode Island containing thirty three (33) acres more or less bounding westerly on the Narragansett Ocean westerly on land of family of James R Kennecott Northly on Charlestown or Browns Road and easterly on land of family of Hope and southward bounding on a stream called Silver Mill creek from east to west Part of the other piece of land with all buildings and improvements therein known as the locksmiths Farm situated in said Town of Charlestown and bounded and described as follows Beginning in a point in the East Road on the Northly side thereof in the line between the parcels herein described and land now in property of family of P Robinson thence running North 13° West Thirty five rods more or less (395 feet) bounding easterly in part on said Silver Mill creek and in part on land now or formerly of the locksmiths thence North 3° West ten rods hundred feet (122) thence North then North 15° West five rods hundred ninety (39) feet bounding Westerly on land now or formerly of Elizabeth Passmore and her heirs thence South Westerly along the Watched Dog Pond bounding Northly on said Pond to land now or formerly of Samuel Browning thence South 23° West ten rods hundred forty six (146) feet thence South North 25° East ten rods hundred twenty eight (128) feet to the East Road the last two courses bounding Westerly on said Browning land thence across the highway thence South 16° East three hundred (300) feet to forest road a Charlestown Point bounding Northly on land now or formerly of said Browning thence in said road and thence East along the Stone highway bounding Northly and Southly on said road and bound to land formerly of Christopher Cutler of Charlestown thence South 28° East fifty hundreds twenty four (524) feet to the East Road bounding Easterly on said land of Christopher Cutler of said Town thence returning by the East Road to the point of beginning and containing by estimation seven hundred seventy three (773) acres of land more or less Together with the estate in said Passmore's Pond feeling between the portion of the public highway within said bounds a small lot of land parceled out used as a school house on said land and the dumping ground or cemetery located on the above described premises Being the same premises conveyed by a deed of Seth Hazard to J. Augustus Rogers dated April 11th 1888 and recorded in the records of Rhode Island in said Town of Charlestown in said Book Vol 12 page 181 To have and to hold The
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482 aforesaid granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging unto and to the use of said Isaac T. Dossin, his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple. And it the said Bank of New York and Trust Company hereby covenant and agree to and with said Isaac T. Dossin his heirs and assigns that it be and shall be sole and sole executor of the last will and testament of each Augustus Rogers and that it has made or suffered any incumbrance on the said granted premises unto its appointment as executor aforesaid that it has in all respects in making this grant and conveyance pursued the terms and authority due directions given to it in and by said last will and testament that said last will and testament was duly proved and admitted by the surrogate Bank of the County of Providence in said State of Rhode Island and has been duly filed and recorded under a devise of the Probate court of the Town of Providence in said State of Rhode Island. That it has been duly appointed sole executor of said last will and testament of said Augustus Rogers and has accepted said trust. In witness whereof Bank of New York and Trust Company has caused these present to be executed and to appropriate seal witnessed by its officers hereunto duly authorized the third day of July A.D. 1923. Signed and sealed in presence of John B. Sumpter John Van Pelzer Bank of New York and Trust Company, Executor of the last will and testament of Augustus Rogers by J. Van Pelzer Vice Pres. Swsy Attest John B. Wedder 21st Secretary State of New York County of New York On the City of New York in said County on this 3rd day of July A.D. 1923 before me personally appeared the above named J. Van Pelzer a President and John B. Wedder Secretary to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument for and in behalf of said Bank of New York and Trust Company and acknowledged said instrument to be their free act and deed and the free act and deed of said Bank of New York and Trust Company in its capacity as Executor of the last will and testament of said Augustus Rogers. J. Van Pelzer Vice Pres. John B. Wedder Secretary received and recorded July 3 1923 at 10 o'clock this AM and recorded by George L. Lows Town Clerk. Commission expires May 30 1924

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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.