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7/11/1931 · DEED · book 24 page 463 doc 8905

From BROWNING HATTIE E life
To BROWNING ROSS E life
Premises none · Lot of land with buildings bounded by Old Connecticut highway and North Cove (Charlestown, North Cove, Atlantic Ocean)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1956 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E → TORREYSON MARY L; BROWNING HARRIET E · book 35 p 445
“conveyed by deed of Hattie E. Browning to Ross R. Browning”
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

▶ 1931 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E; TEFFT EMELINE D; TEFFT WILLIAM E D → CLARK THOMAS G · book 24 p 483
▶ 1933 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → BAKER ELEANOR D · book 25 p 390
▶ 1934 · AGREEMENT · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E; OLNEY CLARA G; JOSEPH RACHAEL C → JOSEPH RACHAEL C; OLNEY CLARA G; BROWNING ROSS E; BROWNING HATTIE E · book 25 p 457
▶ 1935 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → JOSEPH RACHAEL C · book 25 p 687
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → PERLEE FRED E; PERLEE GRACE D; PER LEE FRED E; PER LEE GRACE D · book 27 p 388
▶ 1948 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → TORREYSON MARY L · book 31 p 135

The instrument's own words

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463 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said town and county, this 10 day of June 1931. Daniel E. Fenn, Notary Received for record June 29, 1931 at 3:40 p.m. and recorded by Logan L. R. [signature] Deputy Clerk Know all Men by these Presents: That J. Dexter E. Downing of Echo city and county of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the grantor, for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars paid in cash by Thos E. Downing, also said city of Providence the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, has hereby granted bargained and sold all autonomy with the said Thos E. Downing, his Heirs and Assigns, forever. That certain lot of land lying together with the all buildings and appurtenances thereon situated in the Town of Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at a bound stone on the ground on the east boundary line of the Old Connecticut highway running easterly from the present boundary line from the Southwesterly to North easterly corner and on the easterly line of short certain parcel of land conveyed by Sarah H. Kelly to Fred G. Miller by deed dated October 31, 1905, and recorded in the records of land evidence in said Town of Charlestown in Deed Book 15, at page 288; thence south easterly one hundred eighty six hundred feet (612) feet more or less to the north westerly corner of that certain lot of land which was conveyed by Chad Church to L. Downing (becoming by Deed dated September 22, 1924, and recorded in said records of land evidence in Deed Book 21 at page 339); thence easterly three hundred (300)
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464 said more or less as in a straight line as defined in an instrument conveying by d. Estella Talbott and Mabel M. Ennis wife of William E. Talbott, dated September 4, 1926, and recorded in said records of land evidence in Deed Book 22 and page 360, until it comes to said South Beach way, thence northerly bounded easterly on the channel running from the Atlantic Ocean to North Cove, and until it comes to said Wallace land; thence southerly bounded easterly by said Wallace land to the place of beginning; together with all buildings standing thereon by their tenants contrary to the estates’s inherited title of land. And promise conveyed subject to such Highways thereon as have been duly established and used. To have and To hold the same, with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereto appertain ing, unto said and to the use of the said Rose E. Browning, her Heirs and Assigns, forever. And for full consideration grantor Hattie E. conveying for myself and for my said Heirs, Executors and Administrators, do covenant and warrant that the said premises, her Heirs and Assigns, that I will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises to her said grantees, her Heirs and Assigns, forever. And for the lawful claim and demand of all costs and claiming by the right of under me Said Testimony Hereof I have signed and sealed this sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty and. (signed and sealed) Hattie E. Browning L.S. witness Louis Foots. State of Rhode Island } County of Washington } ss Said Deed be acknowledged on the 7th day of July A.D. 1931 before me personally appeared Hattie E. Browning, to me known, and declared that she had be the party uttering the deed above mentioned, and her hand has been signed and witnessed by hundreds, & her hand has been signed and W Louis Foots, Notary Public. Recorded forward July 11, 1931 at 2:00 PM and recorded by Clinton L. Brown, Town Clerk

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