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6/13/1930 · DEED · book 24 page 138 doc 8710

From HURLY JACOB
To BROWNING RAY V P life
Premises parcel of land lying on "Improvising Neck" (Improvising Neck, Charlestown)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE SNOW NANCY E; SNOW RUTHERFORD H · MORTGAGE LEARNED HERMAN E

Back — where this land came from

deed Albert S. Babcock and wife book 18 p 341
“Being the same premises which Albert S. Babcock and wife by deed... conveyed and conveyed to Ernestine M. Rosenthal”
◀ Follow back 1916 · WILL · DAY LILLIE B → · book 18 p 341
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heir Ernestine M. Rosenthal
“leaving as her heir and successor her husband said Jacob Henley, in whom the property devolved.”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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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

▶ 1934 · DEED · BROWNING MARIE A; BROWNING RAY V P → BARRUS GERTRUDE M; BARRUS WILLIAM F · book 25 p 437
▶ 1936 · DEED · BROWNING MARIE A; BROWNING RAY V P → PROUT ANGELINE; PROUT CHARLES E · book 26 p 515
▶ 1946 · DEED · BROWNING MARIE A; BROWNING RAY V P → BEATRICE CARMEN E; BEATRICE LILLIAN M · book 30 p 73
▶ 1950 · DEED · BROWNING MARIE A; BROWNING RAY V P → ORNBERG BERTHA M; ORNBERG WILLIAM H · book 32 p 26

The instrument's own words

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138 R. Rutherford N. Snow and Nancy C. Snow, husband and wife of North Smithfield, Connecticut for consideration paid, grant to Norman E. Beaman of Charlestown, Rhode Island with mortgage covenants, to secure the payment of four hundred and twenty five dollars on demand with interest at six per centum per annum, payable semi annually in advance as provided in a certain mortgage promissory note of even date herewith, a certain piece of land situated in said Charlestown and is bounded on the North by last’s formerly of John H. & M. Brown and wife, on the East by the highway, on the South by a piece of land of Sherman F. Eldridge and in the West by interconnecting pieces or however otherwise bounded. As a more particular description of said property is made to a deed of even date with these premises from Norman E. Beaman to the mortgagors to be recorded in said Charlestown, this mortgage is made on the statutory condition and with the statutory power of sale. Witness our hands this 19th day of June 1930. George E. Beaman Rutherford N. Snow Nancy C. Snow State of Rhode Island county of Washington ss On this afternoon on the 19th day of June A.D. 1930 before me personally appeared Rutherford N. Snow and Nancy C. Snow to one known and known me to be the parties sealing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledge and signed and delivered it from their executors, to be their free act and deed. George E. Beaman Notary Public. Received and recorded June 19th 1930 at 4-15 o'clock P.M. and released pay George E. Beaman from claim. J. Jacob Henley, single man of the city of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania for consideration paid, grant to Ray W. Browning of town of Washington, State of Rhode Island with warranty covenants, their certain real estate situated in town of Charlestown county of Washington in the state of Rhode Island, and described as follows: certain piece or parcel of land lying on "Improvising Neck" so called in the town of Charlestown, county of Washington, state of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: beginning at the southwest corner and run north the North side of the highway and at the southeast corner of Cottage lot belonging to Elizabeth Henderson, thence running
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Motherly bounded Northerly by land of paid Henleys one hundred feet three Easterly sixty feet then Southerly in a straight line one hundred feet to the highway at a point sixty feet East from the first mentioned corner Thence Northerly along said highway sixty feet to a point of beginning Being the same premises which Albert S. Babcock and wife by deed bearing date the 21st day of August 1897 and recorded in book 18, 18, page 341 of the records of deeds in the form of Habendum fo. conveyed and conveyed to Ernestine M. Rosenthal, in fee and the said Ernestine M. Rosenthal being as said in her divestment as off the mismanaged with the said z. of Henley, And the paid Ernestine Henley & Ernestine M. Rosenthal died on the 5th day of Feb 1923, leaving as her heir and successor her husband said Jacob Henley, in whom the property devolved. Witness my hand this 2nd day of Sept 1830. Jacob Henley Witness C. L. Neave Marguerite M. Ward State of Pennsylvania County of Philadelphia In Philadelphia on the 12th day of July 1831 before me personally appeared Jacob Henley to me known and sworn as me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and be acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his seal act and deed. Marguerite M. Ward L.S. Notary Public Commission expires march 6, 1831 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County State of Pennsylvania County of Philadelphia SS I John M. Scott Prothonotary of the courts of common Pleas of said county, within our county of Record keeping (comm. on case, came the officer authorized by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania to know the following certificate acting by me prothonotary signing with witness, or my designated deputy, John A. Howard to certify that the signature signed name is subscribed to the certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was done by a Notary acknowledgment a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, residing for the county approved, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and certifications and to take acknowledgments made and proofs of deeds and conveyances for convey instruments and hereditaments to be recorded in said State of Pennsylvania, and it all whose acts as such, full faith and credit shall be and what to be
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140 given as well as four copies of Indication as aforesaid, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said notary Pebble and verily believe the signature thereto is genuine, and I further certify that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of the state of Pennsylvania. The impress of the seal of the Notary Pebble is not attached but is to be filed in this office. on solemn affirmation I know the instrument returned above and attest the seal aforesaid this 12th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred thirty (1930). [Signature] Thos M. Scott Prothonotary By John P. Doan Second deputy Prothonotary Licentiate, Licentia, Secundum Legem. Received for record June 13, 1933 at 10 o'clock AM. and recorded by George A. Lowson Town Clerk QUIT CLAIM All Men by these presents, That I Charles E. Downey of the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island stand for and in consideration of the sum of five thousand (5,000) Dollars well and truly paid by the Washington Trust Company of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, by these presents quit claim, grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said Washington Trust Company and any its successors and assigns forever, a certain lot of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, containing by estimation thirty (30) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the north by land own or in fee simple of Sim E. Lawson, on the east by West North westerly motorway (State Road), on the south way road and way formerly of the heirs of Jared Paperback out of town of Barry and on the west by boundary line of certain premises conveyed to Jennie E. Pelton by deed from Susan T. Hynes bearing date of September 29 1926, and recorded in the records of deeds of said township in book 174 pp. Page 366, and the title of the land within described premises pass appurtenant under the last mentioned instrument of said Jennie E. Pelton, on fee in the Town Clerk's office in said Town of Charlestown. to have and to hold, the land granted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances of the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining to the said premises, its successors and assigns forever, and I the said grantor for myself

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