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11/14/1962 · AGREEMENT · book 38 page 581 doc 7722@38/581

From QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT
To CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF life
Premises none · easement along north side of Lot 63 for storm water drainage (Quonocontaug Highlands, Sunset Avenue, Quonocontaug Pond)
Also on this page: DEED CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF

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

◀ 1962 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY E → CROUTER JOHN YALE TR; THORP NELSON H TR; WHOLEAN HELEN K TR; QUONOCONT · book 38 p 480
◀ 1947 · AGREEMENT · CHARLESTOWN ESTATES INC → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 30 p 277
◀ 1947 · AGREEMENT · THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY E → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 30 p 278
◀ 1947 · DEED · CHARLESTOWN ESTATES INC → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 30 p 278
◀ 1947 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY E; THORP MERLE N; THORP NELSON H → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 30 p 444
◀ 1945 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · THORP HOWARD E → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 27 p 212
◀ 1938 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 27 p 207
◀ 1938 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E → QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT · book 27 p 211

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 581 (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

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
581 DEED OF EASEMENT KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS That Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District, a Rhode Island corporation, having its principal office in the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, for consideration paid, hereby grants and conveys to Town of Charlestown, an incorporated Town in the State of Rhode Island, the right and easement in perpetuity along the north side of Lot Number 63 (sixty-three) that certain plat entitled, "Plat of Quonocontaug Highlands, property of Charlestown Estates, Inc., Charlestown, R. I., scale 1 inch equals 50 feet, August, 1940, Rosett & Lewis, Engrs.," for the purpose of draining storm water or surface water, so co-called, from Sunset Avenue to Quonocontaug Pond. IN WITNESS WHEREOF Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District has hereunto caused its name and corporate seal to be affixed hereto and this instrument to be executed on its behalf by its Moderator and its Secretary for this purpose duly authorized, this 29th day of September, 1962. QUONOCONTAUG CENTRAL BEACH FIRE DISTRICT By Nelson H. Thorp Moderator John Yale Crouter Secretary STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON At Charlestown, on the 29th day of September, 1962 before me personally appeared Nelson H. Thorp, Moderator, and John Y. Crouter, Secretary, of Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District, to me as known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument said instrument, by then so executed to be their free act and deed in their free act and deed in their made capacities and the free act and deed of Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District. HOWARD W. THORP Notary Public Received for record November 14, A. D. 1962 at 9:10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- QUIT CLAIM DEED CHARLESTOWN ESTATES, INC., A corporation duly incorporated under the Laws of the State of Rhode Island, and having a place of business in the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to the Town of Charlestown, a Municipal Corporation located in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM covenants: A certain strip or parcel of land located westerly from the Old West Beach Road, so called, at Quonocontaug in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the westerly line of said West Beach Road, said point being located a distance of 113.88 feet northerly from the southeasterly corner of said road at Vanderbilt D. Taylor; thence running south easterly and southeasterly along the arc of a corner cut off variance of 30 feet, a radius of 30 feet, thence running southeasterly and westerly along the arc of a corner cut off variance of 30 feet, a radius of 30 feet, thence running to the point of intersection of the westerly line of said West Beach Road and the northerly line of said road, thence running along the northerly line of said West Beach Road running generally westerly along the northerly line of said road 577.66 feet to the boundary of E. and Harold Y. Thorp s' land at a point on the northerly line of said road; thence running generally westerly along the northerly line of said road 111.30 feet to the beginning of a curve having a radius of 1064.03 feet and continuing along the arc of said curve in a southeasterly and southerly direction 111.30 feet to the point of intersection of said curve with the northerly line of said road; thence running generally southerly along the northerly line of said road 111.30 feet to the beginning of a curve having a radius of 37.10 feet to the beginning of a curve having a radius of 37.10 feet, thence running generally southerly along the northerly line of said road 111.30 feet in a northerly direction 91.15 feet to the beginning of another curve having a radius of 37.10 feet, its length and continuing along the arc of said curve in a southeasterly direction 37.10 feet to the point of intersection of said curve and the northerly line of said road; thence continuing southeasterly 398.58 feet to the beginning of a corner cut off variance having a radius of 30 feet, thence southeasterly along the arc of said curve in a southeasterly direction 37.10 feet to the point of intersection of said curve and the northerly line of said road; thence running generally southeasterly around another corner cut off curve its variance 37.10 feet to the intersection thence running generally southeasterly along the northerly line of said road to the point of intersection with the northerly line of the Old West Beach Road thence easterly along the arc of a corner cut off variance having a radius of 30 feet, thence southeasterly along the arc of said curve having a radius of 30 feet, thence southeasterly along the northerly line of West Beach Road 100.20 feet to the beginning of a corner cut off variance having a radius of 30 feet, thence southeasterly and northerly around said corner cut off curve to the intersection of the northerly line of said road and the westerly line of said road; thence running generally northerly 398.58 feet to the beginning of a curve having a radius of 133.10 feet and continuing northerly and northeasterly around said curve to the point of intersection of said curve with the northerly line of said road; thence running generally northerly along the northerly line of said road to the beginning of a curve having a radius of 1064.03 feet, thence northerly and northeasterly along the arc of said curve 169.50 feet to the point of intersection of said curve with the northerly line of said road; thence running generally northerly along the northerly line of said road to the beginning of a corner cut off curve having a radius of 30 feet, thence northerly, northeasterly and easterly around the arc of said curve to the intersection of said curve with the northerly line of said road; thence running easterly along the northerly line of said road 515.66 feet to the beginning of a corner cut off curve having a radius of 30 feet; thence continuing in a northeasterly direction around said curve to the intersection with the westerly line of the West Beach Road, so called; thence northerly along the westerly line of the West Beach Road 100.20 feet to the point and place of beginning. Meeting and intersecting to convey Sunset Avenue from the Old West Beach Road on the south, northerly and easterly to the intersection with the West Beach Road, as shown on a certain plan or plat entitled, "Quonocontaug Highlands, property of Charlestown Estates, Inc., Charlestown, R. I., scale 1 inch equals 50 feet, August, 1940, Rosett & Lewis, Engrs." Said plat being duly filed in the Town Clerk's Office of the Town of Charlestown.

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.