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11/21/1927 · DEED · book 23 page 112 doc 8311

From PORTER HORACE W life, PORTER NANCY R life
To MERRILL LEONA B
Premises none · lots 102 and 103 on a plan by Trainer Tex Agents (Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED BURDICK CHARLES

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 · THORP HOWARD E; THORP HATTIE M → PORTER HORACE W · book 23 p 79
◀ 1925 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP HATTIE M → PORTER HORACE W · book 21 p 381

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 index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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112 I, Perry H. Hopkins (married) of Charlestown, Washington County Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to Charles B. Purdish of said Charlestown, with quitclaim covenants, a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown near the highway leading from Loose Mills to Wood River junction, and designated as "Connell McLoft" land on a certain plat of the Sullivan Reservation on file in the town clerks office in said Charlestown, said land being bounded on the North by leonees Dye's land, on the East by land formerly of Potter Hopkins, on the South by Hannah Ashley's land on the West by Abigail Long's or honors bounded, Being the same lot described by deed from Connell McLoft to me recorded in the land Evidence records of said Charlestown, Book No. 16 page 17, Witness my hand this 19 day of October 1937. George L. Lorasse Perry H. Hopkins, State of Rhode Island County of Washington Ss In Charlestown on the 19 day of October AD 1937, before me personally appeared the above named George Lorasse Perry H. Hopkins to me known and known by me to be the party speculating the foregoing instrument and the aforementioned said instrument by him executed, to be his free act and deed. George L. Lorasse Notary Public Recd for record Nov 10th 1937 at 8-45 o'clock AM, and Recorded by George Lorasse, Town Clerk I, George Dr. Porter of the Town of Westumber, County of Tolland State of Connecticut hereinafter called the grantor, for consideration paid, grant to Emma B. Mcphill of the Town of Alfred, County of Allegany, State of New York, with warranty covenants, a certain tracts of parcels of land situated and being in the town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows, to wit: a lot numbered one hundred and two (102) and one hundred three (103) as shown and delineated on a certain plan or plat entitled "Plan of Inventory survey land batch, Charlestown, RI, by Trainer, Tex Agents, 50 ft to the inch, October, 1924, Ross & Dean's Engine Regd December 10, 1924." Said plan is filed being on file in the Town Clerks office in said town of Charlestown. The said Grantor,
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her heirs and assigns, shall have the right to pass and repass to and from and from and to said lot on foot or horse or otherwise, over, on and across those certain rights of way or roads as shown on said plat or fixed leading to the public highway and also all the rights of way leading to the beach and along the right of way leading from the road to the first water mark and any other portion of said plat which might hereafter be designated for public use, to said granite for herself, her heirs and assigns, hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said grantor, his heirs and assigns, that the said granite, for herself, her heirs and assign shall pay to Howard E. Thorp, his heirs and assign or on or before the first day of August in each year hereafter, the sum of $10.00 (ten dollars) each and every month, sum to be refunded and applied by the said Howard E. Thorp, to this, his heirs and assigns, in such manner as they deemed indicated to the care and maintenance of the roads and other properties that may be designated for public use, and the said sum agrees to be paid here by honestly made lien and charge upon the premises hereby conveyed and in case of the failure to make any payment within one year after the same shall become due, it shall be lawful for the said Howard E. Thorp, his heirs and assigns, to sell and convey the premises at public auction first giving notice of such sale in some newspaper published in said vicinity of Washington, at least once each week, for three consecutive weeks, and to borrow the purchase or purchasers or purchasers of said sale, this conveyance is made and accepted subject to the following conditions and restrictions, namely: 1. In case of a contemplated sale of said lot or parcel of land or any part thereof, said Howard E. Thorp, his heirs or assigns shall be given ten days notice in writing and shall have the first option to purchase the same with the building and improvements thereon at the highest bona fide price in good faith made and actually offered to the said granite, or her heirs and assigns, 2. The above conveyed premises shall be used only as a site for one dwelling house or each lot hereby conveyed, which building house shall be erected on the premises in accordance with the building line as shown on said plat and no portion of any building or dwelling house ( porch included ) shall approach the street or streets or ocean front nearer than said building line, nor shall any building fly fence nature of fence and wall whatever approach the side lines of the lot in both lots nearer than five feet therefore, no detached garage or other outbuildings or buildings shall be erected therein, dwelling house when erected on either of said lots shall cost when completed not less than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, all toilets, bathtubs or other drains or sewage outlet shall be piped to a suitable cesspool to be constructed and maintained on the
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114 above premises by the grantor, her heirs and assigns, at her or their own cost and expense, 3. No division or stone walls, hedger or fences shall be permitted nor trees of any kind nor anything else (except the dwelling house) what shall in any way obstruct the view from any part of any adjoining property or any dwelling place in their courts, stables, gardens and vegetation shall be permitted. 4. No poultry, swine, cattle, sheep, horses dogs or cats or any other mammal or domestic animals or birds shall be kept or permitted to be kept on said premises. 5. The said grantee & his heirs and assigns reserve the right to enter upon the above described and conveyed premises to lay any pipe or install a pump, or to repair the same, always leaving the premises in as good a condition as when entered. 6. It is hereby further expressly understood and agreed by and between the parties that all the aforesaid conditions, covenants and agreements on the part of the grantees, her heirs and assigns, on her or their part to be had and performed, shall attach to and run with the land hereby conveyed. It is further agreed and made a part of the consideration of this sale and purchase that in case of any violation of the above conditions or covenants on the part of said grantee or her heirs or assigns that the title and right to said premises shall revert to the grantor her heirs and assigns and that she or they may repossess himself or herself of the estate hereby granted and all right, title and interest hereby conveyed shall be forfeited and cease and terminate. I, Nancy R. Porter, wife of the grantor, waive to the said grantee all my right of dower in the aforementioned premises. Witnesses our hands this 22nd day of September A.D. 1927 Dwight L. Lyman Grace M. Porter L.S. Aubie M. Bergman Nancy R. Porter L.S. State of Connecticut County of Tolland In Columbia on the 22nd day of September A.D. 1927, before me personally appeared the above named grantor, to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument by them executing to be their free act and deed. Dwight L. Lyman Holland S. Tate L.S. Signed for record Dec 21 1927 at 4:30 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George Inkerman, 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.