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9/26/1927 · MORTGAGE · book 23 page 75 doc 8283

From BAKER MARGUERITE S, BAKER ELWIN J
To BROWNING ROBERT JR life
Premises Thirty (30) acres · lot of woodland (Charlestown, Pequest Pond)
Also on this page: DEED GRINNELL LERN M; GRINNELL PEARL M

Back — where this land came from

deed Nathan H. Kenyon book 8 p 14 Charlestown
“conveyed to me from land of Nathan H. Kenyon”
◀ Follow back 1853 · DEED · KENYON NATHAN G → CARD GREEN · book 8 p 14
read by: gemma
will Mary S. Parson
“bequeathed to said Marguerite S. Baker... by the will of Mary S. Parson”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1927 · DEED · BROWNING SARAH E; BROWNING ROBERT JR → KORPI OTTO; KORPI ROSIE · book 23 p 68
▶ 1929 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWNING ROBERT JR → BAKER MARGUERITE S; BAKER ELWIN J · book 23 p 76
▶ 1934 · DEED · BROWNING ROBERT JR → BROWNING SARAH E · book 25 p 453

The instrument's own words

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75 I, Harry H Hoxie of Stonington, New London county connected for consideration paid, grant to & convey to Hem m. Cornwell and Rose M. Cornwell husband and wife of Charlestown, Washingtons county, Rhode Island as joint tenants and not as tenants in common with quitclaim covenants a certain lot of land situated in said Charlestown, bounded as follows: Easterly by land held by heirs of James S Kenyon, Southerly by the East Road, Northerly and Westerly by land of said heirs of James S Kenyon, or however otherwise bounded, Being the same premises I hold by deed from Josiah Cornwell and others on record in said Charlestown in land Evidence Book 16, page 328; I, Eunice A Hoxie wife of the grantor release to said grantees all my right of dower in the aforementioned premises. Witness my hand this 16th day of September, 1927 H. E. Thorpe Harry H Hoxie L.S. Eunice A Hoxie L.S. State of Rhode Island County of Washington I, E. Thorpe on this 16th day of Sept Ad 1927 before me personally appeared the above named Grantors to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and did acknowledge said instrument by them executed, to be their free act and deed. Howard E. Thorpe Notary Public L.S. Received for record Sept 22nd 1927 at 8.30 oclock AM. and recorded by George W. Lovett Town Clerk Know All Men by these presents, that I, Mabel Marguerite S Baker wife of Elwin J. Baker of the City of Norton, State of Massachussetts for consideration having paid, grant to Robert Cornwell Jr of the Town of Charlestown, State of Rhode Island with mortgage covenants, to secure the payment of three hundred (300) dollars in one (1) year with interest at six (6%) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of your date herewith, that certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, county of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: a lot of woodland situated in the Town of Charlestown Town and containing by estimation Thirty (30) acres be the
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76 name more or less, and bounded as follows, to wit: Bounded on the south by Alfred H. Healy, Eastly by Welcome Leach, Northerly by a Brook leading to Pequest Pond which separates it from land of Welcome Leach and Westerly by said Pequest Pond, it being that same estate which was conveyed to me from land of Nathan H. Kenyon, under date of December 22nd AD 1832 and recorded in the records of said Town in the form of Charlestown, Rhode Island, Book No. 8, at page 14. The said described wood land was bequeathed to said Marguerite S. Baker, and in any way by the will of Mary S. Parson late of the Town of Charlestown deceased said land being duly probated and recorded in the probate records in said Town. This mortgage is made upon the statutory conditions and with the statutory power of sale, and I Elwin J. Baker husband of the mortgagor Marguerite S. Baker adhere to this mortgage all my right by courtesy and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. Witness our hands this 24th day of September 1927 Executed in the presence of Escar E. Barber Marguerite S. Baker Elwin J. Baker State of Rhode Island County of Washington At Redmond on the 24th day of September 1927 before me personally appeared Marguerite S. Baker and Elwin J. Baker both of me month and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they so actually acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed. Escar E. Barber Henry Pules Received for record Sept 28th 1927 at 4.45 o'clock PM and recorded by George L. Clark, Town Clerk I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage recorded in the records of land evidence in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island in land Evidence Book Tombs 23 at page 75 hereby cancel and discharge the same, And I do covenant and with this instrument making said payment that I am the present owner of said mortgage. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this 25 day of April 1929 Robert Booming Jr recorded April 26 1929 By George L. Clark, 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.