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9/28/1928 · DEED · book 23 page 279 doc 8421

From ARNOLD THOMAS L life, ARNOLD MARY N life
To HIGGINS LEILA M
Premises tract of land on Fox Neck (Fox Neck, Charlestown)
Also on this page: DEED MACFARLANE ALICE M; MACFARLANE WILLIAM T

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

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

▶ 1928 · DEED · HIGGINS LEILA M; BARNES MARY BAKER; REED RACHEL; STOWERS FRANCES MIRIA → CHAMPLIN CATHERINE M · book 23 p 187
▶ 1932 · DEED · HIGGINS LEILA M → TUCKER MILLARD F · book 25 p 235

The instrument's own words

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I, Thomas S. Arnold, of Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island, for consideration paid amount to be settled in shingles of said Charlestown with warranty covenants, sell and convey a certain tract of land situated on "Fox Neck" in said Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of this tract and at the Northwest corner of land of Samuel M. Higgins; thence Northwesterly bounding Northwesterly by said Samuel M. Higgins land 138 feet to the Northwest corner thereof; thence Southeasterly on a line in continuation of the West line of said Higgins lot one hundred feet bounding Westerly the land of Granton; thence Southerly bounding Southeasterly on land of Granton on a line parallel with the South line of the tract first herein conveyed and one hundred feet from the same a distance of eighty eight feet thence Northerly on a line parallel with and distant eighty feet from the West line of this tract a distance of fifty feet more or less; thence Northwesterly bounding Northwesterly by land of Granton about eighty feet more or less to the point of beginning. I, Mary M. concur with the granting and release to said Arnold all my right of dower in the aforementioned premises, Witness our hands this 27th day of September 1928 George L. Corney Thomas S. Arnold Mary M. Arnold State of Rhode Island County of Washington At Charlestown on this 27th day of September, AD 1928 before me personally appeared the above named witnesses Thomas S. Arnold, said Mary M. Arnold and one known to me to be the proprietor operating the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by their signatures to be their free act and deed. George L. Corney Notary Public Received for record Sept 28th 1928 at 9 15 8 o'clock AM and recorded by George L. Corney from Seller

The page as recorded

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