The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 6004 › 2335@31/594 › 7695@38/559

10/24/1962 · DEED · book 38 page 559 doc 7695@38/559

From BERRY JOHANNA
To PURZYCKI JOHN C, PURZYCKI RITA
Premises Lots 515, 516, and 517 on "Charlestown by the Sea" plat (Charlestown, Easton)

Back — where this land came from

deed William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes book 31 p 594 Charlestown
“conveyed by deed of William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, to George M. Berry and Johanna Berry”
◀ Follow back 1949 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 31 p 594
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deed Robert Arnold Smith book 34 p 224 Charlestown
“conveyed by deed of Robert Arnold Smith to George M. Berry and Johanna Berry”
◀ Follow back 1954 · DEED · SMITH PHYLLIS L; SMITH ROBERT ARNOLD → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 34 p 224
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1954 · DEED · SMITH PHYLLIS L; SMITH ROBERT ARNOLD → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 34 p 224
◀ 1949 · DEED · CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D → BERRY GEORGE M; BERRY JOHANNA · book 31 p 594

Forward — where this land went

⛔ 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 assessor does not cite book 38 page 559 (its history for each parcel goes back only a few transfers). The index is complete to 1987, but only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), and nothing after 1965 has been, so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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559 EASTERLY : by Lot Number 517, as shown on said Map, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, more or less. This deed is subject to restrictions as contained on said Map. Together with parking privileges on lot near ocean front. Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by deed of William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, to George M. Berry and Johanna Berry, as Joint tenants, dated August 2nd, 1949 and recorded in the Records of Land evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book No. 31, at Page 594. I, Johanna Berry, covenant that said George M. Berry has since deceased and that I am the surviving grantee mentioned in the aforesaid deed; that I am a widow and have not remarried. WITNESS my hand this 15th day of October of 1960. JOHANNA BERRY (Documentary stamps 1.10) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, Etc County of Washington } In Charlestown on the 15th day of October, 1960 before me personally appeared Johanna Berry to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her execution, to be her free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record October 24th A. D., 1962 at 10:40 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by --Jean M. Lefebvre-- Deputy Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, JOHANNA BERRY, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to JOHN C. PURZYCKI and RITA PURZYCKI, husband and wife, both of Cromwell, State of Connecticut, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS Those three (3) certain lots or parcels of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, shown and delineated as Lots Numbers 515 (five hundred fifteen), 516, (five hundred sixteen) and 517 (five hundred seventeen) on that plat entitled, "Charlestown by the Sea", owned and developed by Thomas F. Reilly, location Easton, Charlestown, Rhode Island, Scale 1" = 100 feet, dated July 25, 1954, K. W. Leighton, Civil Engineer, New Haven, Conn., which plat is filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown. Said lots together form one tract bounded as follows: SOUTHERLY : by Edgemoor Street, as shown on said plat, seventy-five (75) feet, more or less; WESTERLY : by Lot Number 515, as shown on said plat, one hundred (100) feet, more or less; NORTHERLY : by Lots Numbers 479, 480, and 481 as shown on said plat, seventy-five (75) feet, more or less; and EASTERLY : by Lot Number 518, as shown on said plat, one hundred (100) feet, more or less. This conveyance is made subject to restrictions as contained on said plat. Being the same premises conveyed by deed of Robert Arnold Smith to George M. Berry and Johanna Berry as Joint Tenants, dated July 29th, 1954 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book 34 at Page 224. I, Johanna Berry, covenant that said George M. Berry has since deceased and that I am the surviving grantee mentioned in the aforesaid deed; that I am a widow and have not remarried. WITNESS my hand this 15th day of October, 1960. JOHANNA BERRY (Documentary stamp .55) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND } County of Washington } In Charlestown, on the 15th day of October, 1960, before me personally appeared Johanna Berry, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her execution, to be her free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public Received for record October 24th A. D., 1962 at 10:41 o'clock/and recorded by Jean M. Lefebvre Deputy 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.