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3/26/1938 · MORTGAGE · book 27 page 288 doc 81@27/288

From BERESFORD CORA K, BERESFORD ERNEST R
To BLISS CHARLES C life
Premises none · Lot Number 39 on the Sea Lot Colony plat (Charlestown, South Kingstown)
Index description LOT 39 SEA LEA COLONY
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R

Back — where this land came from

deed Marie Rose Yvonne Behnke book 27 p 257 Charlestown
“conveyed to this Grantor by deed from Marie Rose Yvonne Behnke by deed dated March 3, 1935”
◀ Follow back 1938 · DEED · BEHNEKE MARIE ROSE YVONNE; BEHNEKE NORMAN L; BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BUR → BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 27 p 257
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1938 · DEED · BEHNEKE MARIE ROSE YVONNE; BEHNEKE NORMAN L; BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BUR → BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 27 p 257
◀ 1938 · DEED · BEHNEKE NORMAN L; BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BURDICK MARION GERTRUDE; BEHNE → BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 27 p 269
◀ 1936 · DEED · REILLY THOMAS F; REILLY ANNA T → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 26 p 483

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

▶ 1939 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BLISS CHARLES C → MEE TIMOTHY J; MEE HELEN S · book 27 p 147
▶ 1946 · DEED · BLISS CHARLES C; BLISS JESSIE W; GREENLAW LAURA M; GREENLAW WILLARD C; → HUTCHINS EMMA R; HUTCHINS VERNON H · book 30 p 154
▶ 1946 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 27 p 575
▶ 1947 · DEED · BLISS CHARLES C; BLISS JESSIE W; BURKE MARY A E; BURKE MARY EMMETT → BARRETT W STANLEY · book 30 p 318
▶ 1948 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 29 p 283
▶ 1949 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 30 p 34
▶ 1949 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 30 p 111
▶ 1949 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 27 p 288
▶ 1949 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 30 p 626
▶ 1951 · PREL · BLISS CHARLES C; BLISS JESSIE W → COVE POINT INC · book 32 p 472
▶ 1954 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 31 p 581
▶ 1955 · DEED · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 35 p 56
▶ 1955 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 30 p 428
▶ 1955 · RELEASE · BLISS CHARLES C → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 31 p 488
▶ 1956 · PREL · BLISS CHARLES C; BLISS JESSIE W → BODE FLORENCE C · book 35 p 538

The instrument's own words

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288 I, ERNEST R. BERESFORD, of the Town of Narragansett, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES C. BLISS, of the Town of State Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of EIGHT HUNDRED (800) DOLLARS in five (5) years with interest at six (6) per centum, per annum, payable semi-annually not in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of every date herewith. That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: A certain tract or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, laid out and delineated as Lot Number 39 (thirty-nine) on that plat entitled, "Sea Lot Colony in Charlestown and South Kingstown, R. I. Property of N. R. Y. Behnke, Numbered Lots Represent Area of Sea Lot Colony, Surveyed and Platted 1931, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, Leon L. Loond, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 80" which plot is recorded in the Records of Land Evidences in said Town of Charlestown. Meaning and intending to hereby convey one of the lots of land conveyed to this Grantor by deed from Marie Rose Yvonne Behnke by deed dated March 3, 1935 and recorded in the Records of land evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book 27 at Pages 257 and 258. This conveyance is subject to the rights, privileges, benefits and restrictions contained in aforementioned deed. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with THE STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. I, CORA K. BERESFORD wife of the mortgagor, release to the mortgagees all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. WITNESS our hands this 9th day of March of 1938. ERNEST R. BERESFORD CORA K. BERESFORD STATE of RHODE ISLAND } } County of Washington } In Charlestown on the 9th day of March 1938 before me personally appeared Ernest R. Beresford and Cora K. Beresford, husband and wife, both to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instru- ment, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON I. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record March 26th, A. D. 1938 at 1:50 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by Town Clerk I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the above mortgage, recorded in the records of land evidence in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, in Real Estate Mtg. Book No. 27 at page 288 hereby cancel and discharge the same. and I consent to and with the person making said payment that I am the present owner of said mortgage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of March 1949. Witness: Stephen M. Tourtellot CHARLES C. BLISS (SEAL) Received for record March 22nd, A. D. 1949 at 11:17 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by 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.