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6/2/1931 · DEED · book 24 page 424 doc 8885

From ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED life, ARNOLD LYNDON EXECUTOR, ARNOLD THOMAS L III EXECUTOR life, ARNOLD THOMAS L III TRUSTEE life, ARNOLD LYNDON TRUSTEE, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE, WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
To HAWES WILLIAM E life
Premises lot and parcel of land with buildings and improvements (Westerly, Charlestown, Charlestown Pond)
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE RATHBUN YVONNE E; RATHBUN JOHN L

Back — where this land came from

deed estate of Thomas L. Cornwell book 27 p 178 Westerly
“conveyed to the executors of the said estate by a deed dated June 1st, 1831”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (other_town)
read by: gemma
will Thomas J. L. Cornwell
“Trustees under the Last Will and Testament of Thomas J. L. Cornwell, deceased”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1929 · DEED · CLARK GEORGE C; CLARK MINNIE M → ARNOLD THOMAS L · book 24 p 18
◀ 1931 · MORTGAGE · SLOCUM KATHERINE D; SLOCUM RODNEY K → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY; ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; ARNOLD LYNDON EXEC · book 24 p 340
◀ 1931 · MORTGAGE · CLARK GEORGE C; CLARK MINNIE M → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY; ARNOLD THOMAS L DECEASED; ARNOLD LYNDON EXEC · book 24 p 351

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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424 [Margin note: The said property being part of the land of the estate of Thomas L. Cornwell, deceased, and having been conveyed to the executors of the said estate by a deed dated June 1st, 1831, which is recorded in Book 27, page 178 of the land evidence records of the town of Westerly.] --- personally this twenty third day of June, 1831 before me personally appeared Dobin L. Rothbund and Jane E. Rothbund, who being known and admitted to me to be the parties executing the fore- going instrument, and they acknowledged signed and delivered, by them executed, to be their free and act deed. Warded H. Rothbund Notary Public Recorded for record June 1, 1831 at 12:05 PM. recorded by [Signature] [Signature] Town Clerk Depy. For details of above mentioned see Book 27. (Pag 178) Thomas L. Cornwell, Jr., Lyndon Cornwell and Westerly Washington County Company, as Executors of and Trustees under the Last Will and Testament of Thomas J. L. Cornwell, deceased, for consideration paid, grant to William H. Howes, residing at 112 Chamber Street, Westerly, R.I. with rights heirs and assigns forever all that certain lot and parcel of land situated, bounded and being within the Town of Westerly (Charlestown) County of Washington, state of Rhode Island, together with all the buildings and improvements located thereon, and all other real and personal property, located within said land, as described as follows: Beginning on the south bound corner on the east board of Cornwell's land, and running thence in a southeasterly direction nearly, and the lands of the Estate of Thomas L. Cornwell one hundred eighty seven and thirty one hundredths (187.31) (48.30) feet to a stone bound; thence running a right angle and running northerly one hundred fifty (150) feet to a stone bound; thence making an interior angle,
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If seventy-eight (78) degrees, thirty-six minutes, six seconds, and running northeasterly thirty-three feet to a stone wall and seventy-one hundredths (71.00) feet to a stone bound; thence westerly one hundred seventeen degrees forty-five minutes forty- one degrees ninety nine (129) degrees four feet, seven inches, running in a southeasterly direction and continuing east and south six-hundreds (626) feet, more or less, to a corner of Charlestown Pond; thence westerly eighty-three feet, more or less, to a stone bound one hundreds 100 feet, more or less, to the point of place of beginning. This property is more definitely described as being over the survey of J. T. Sanger Esq. dated May 1, 1854, which is filed in the town Clerk's office at the town of Charlestown, Stewarts Place in books at page 1. This Deed is intended to correct the error appearing in the deed conveyed by Thomas L. Brown to the owners of the Pond and Forest Family, conveyed on the 1st day of June 1854 by the Clerk of the Town of Charlestown in book 10 page 1. page 20 of the Book of Records, named starting line given by second Thomas L. Brown to the owners of the Pond and the said Thomas L. Peel, conveyed on the first of the Town Clerk's Book 10 Page 18, proprietor of the Board of Deceased. Witness our hands this 29th day of May 1931 Lester L. Brown [Signature] Lester S. Brown [Signature] Thomas L. Brown L.D. Thomas L. Brown L.D. Washington Trust Company By Arthur N. Terry Asst By Thomas Terry Vice President State of Rhode Island ) County of Washington ) At Charlestown on the 29th day of May 1931 Before me personally appeared the honorables Thomas L. Brown and Lester L. Brown to me known and sworn to me to be the persons signatory the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged the instrument by them executed, to be their free act and deed. Lester L. Brown Notary Public State of Rhode Island ) County of Washington ) The Hon. J. P. Heasley, resident and County in the city of June, 1931, before me, a Notary Public and for hand
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426 in witness whereof the undersigned Secretary & Treasury the resident now Thomas Story, the said Present of the corporate grantor, as the above where and foregoing instruments, is this it shall be my Engagement to execute all necessary by and the said instruments of said corporate grantor, and authorized that shall be executed and sealed executed the said instruments on behalf of the corporate grantor, representative characters for and on behalf of the corporate grantor, and said covenants to be performed and that and the same shall be void and out of laboratory and a deed and that the said instruments are null and void and dead and unsupported, and that it is my act and deed and covenant instrument is the corporate seal in accordance with law. witnessed the same here of i signed instruments set signed sealed and delivered the instruments upon of court administration. [Signature] Thomas Story, Trustee Secretary of Salthaven Dated January 29, 1931 at 10:45 o'clock P.M. [Signature] Luther L. Durand Town Clerk O.D. Know all Men by these Presents: That E. & Howard Land Trust of Salthaven, Rhode Island a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island and considered abroad of Salthaven event Statement Salthaven whose sole and only principal they have the Washington County Company of the town of westerly, County of Washington and state of Rhode Island, their the corporate grantor, is the rightful owner of land, by deed recorded in the book page, volume page and by deed recorded in the said Washington County land boundary the aforesaid and elsewhere, forever. A certain piece of land situated in the town of Salthaven Rhode and 27/100 (2.27) acres, more or less, with all the buildings and improvements appertaining thereto situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and state of Rhode Island, and known as the camp and bound and described as follows: beginning at a post on the shore of Charlestown mill river where a march stone of wharf is located as known as the sound line (12) feet easterly from which the line runs in a small brook running from a marsh into the sea then the line of the shore thence and of the

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.