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10/31/1927 · DEED · book 23 page 93 doc 8298

From ARNOLD MARY N life, ARNOLD THOMAS LYMAN life
To FLETCHER GERALDINE L
Premises sixty thousand (60,000) sq · land on shores of Charlestown Bay near East Arnold Road (Charlestown Bay, East Arnold Road, East Comley Road, Leansome Cove, East Beach, Charlestown Beach)

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

◀ 1927 · DEED · LEE DOROTHY V; ARNOLD EDGAR H; ARNOLD BARBARA V; LEE C G JR → ARNOLD THOMAS L · book 23 p 53
◀ 1906 · DEED · VIDAND ROBERT P; VIDAND FLORENCE W → ARNOLD MARY N · book 15 p 326
◀ 1915 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GREENE FRANK A ADMINISTRATOR; GREENE MARY H ESTATE OF → ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N · book 16 p 327
◀ 1911 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · DOREMUS ALBERT T → ARNOLD FRANK W; ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD MARY N; ARNOLD GERTRUDE P · book 15 p 393

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1956 · DEED · WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE; ARNOLD THOMAS L EST; ARNOLD LYNDON T → BLIVEN GEORGE F JR; BLIVEN JEANNETTE B · book 35 p 351
“conveyed by deed of said Thomas Lyman Arnold, deceased, to Geraldine L. Fletcher”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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

▶ 1950 · DEED · FLETCHER GERALDINE L → BLIVEN GEORGE F JR; BLIVEN JEANNETTE B · book 32 p 138
▶ 1957 · DEED · FLETCHER GERALDINE L → ARNOLD LYNDON; ARNOLD THOMAS L; ARNOLD WILLIAM F · book 36 p 167

The instrument's own words

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State of New York, County of New York ss. No. 66043, Series B. I, William T. Costello, clerk of the county of New York and also clerk of the supreme court for the said county, the same being a Court of Record having a seal, do hereby certify that T. H. Thomson whose name is subscribed to the deposition or certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such deposition, a proof and acknowledgment, a notary Public in and for such county, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of said state to take depositions and to administer oaths to be used in any court of said state and for general purposes, and also to take acknowledgments and proofs of deeds, of conveyances for lands, tenements or hereditaments within said State of New York. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such notary Public, and verily believe that the signature to said deposition or certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court and county, the 28 day Oct 1947 William T. Costello Clerk. Received for record Oct. 30, 1947 at 9-15 o'clock a.m. and recorded by George G. Cass, Tom Clerk. I, Thomas Degman Arnold of Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Pericles S. Potter of the said county county of Providence in said State with warranty forevermore, that certain track of land containing sixty thousand (60,000) sq more or less located in said Charlestown on the shores of Charlestown Bay near the East Arnold Road, as called, bounded and described as follows: (beginning at a stone bound with a drill hole in it that a course northly (25) feet South and thirty (30) feet East of the boundary line between land of Leland and other parts and hold of the grantor then hundred forty (140) feet more or less southerly on a line parallel to and thirty (30) feet Easterly of the boundary line of the lands more aforesaid to a stone bound with a drill hole in it thence Easterly two hundred thirty (230) feet more or less to a stone bound with a drill hole in it bordering southerly on other land of the grantor a prolongation of which line Easterly crosses the northwest stone bound of land of Elora Bailey, thence Northerly one hundred ninety (190) feet more
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94 or rear to another stone bound with a drill hole in it, approximately parallel to the East Comley Road, so called, bounding on other land of the grantor; thence in a westerly direction to the point of beginning, together with rights of way over all roads in Comley not particularly private and with a four (4) foot right of way across lands of the grantor to the East Comley Road, as called, at a convenient point near the southeast corner of this tract and with a right of way to a convenient pond at the shore of "Leansome Cove" so called, and a right of way to the ocean beach over land of the grantor and with the right and privilege of erecting and maintaining a small watch house on the south side of the highway leading from East Beach to Charlestown Beach," I, Mary T. Comley wife of the grantor release to said grantor all my right of adower in the aforementioned premises. Witness our hands this 8th day of October 1927. [Signed] Herman Dayman Comley [Signed] Mary T. Comley State of Rhode Island County of Washington In Colleton on the 31, day of October 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 they acknowledged that said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed. [Signed] George LaCroose [Signed] Mary Public Notary Public Received for record October 31, 1927 at 9:10 o'clock AM and recorded by George LaCroose, Town Clerk I, Isham H. R. Pike, of the city of Providence in Providence county, Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to Mary A. Slide of the city and county of Providence in said State with Mortgage covenants to secure the payment of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars at interest of eight (8%) per centum per annum, payable in installments as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith a certain tract of salt marsh land containing four acres more or less situated in the town of Charlestown in said Washington county and bounded as follows: on the North by a creek, In the East by a creek

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