The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 8963

10/10/1931 · DEED · book 25 page 25 doc 8963

From HOLMES FANNY M ESTATE OF, HOLMES DUDLEY T EXECUTOR
To FINLAYSON FRANK M, FINLAYSON ELLEN
Premises 1500 feet · Tract of land with buildings, 15 feet frontage by 100 feet depth (Charlestown, Atlantic Ocean)

Back — where this land came from

will Fanny M. Holmes
“will of Fanny M. Holmes, deceased”
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probate Probate Court of the Town of Charlestown
“decree of the Probate Court of the Town of Charlestown”
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deed
“as per Quit-claim Deed filed August 13th, 1896”
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Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1938 · DEED · LYCETT FREDERICK W; LYCETT MARY FRANCIS → GUERNSEY H M · book 27 p 311
“conveyed this grantor by S. M. Davis, Inc. by deed dated October 2, 1931”
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Follow forward ▶ 1961 · DEED · ARNOLD ALBERT E; ARNOLD ARLENE; DENNISON CLIFFORD; DENNISON MABEL G; L → · book 37 p 622
“conveyed to Beatus Strong by Warranty Deed from Eleanor E. Baker... recorded... in Book 25 at page 25”
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The instrument's own words

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25 GERTRUDE L. STRAYER to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. May Rothman Notary Public. Received for record October 10th, 1931 at 11:50 o'clock A. M., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk. (For discharge of above mortgage, see Book 25, Page 701) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Dudley T. Holmes, as Executor of the will of Fanny M. Holmes, deceased, late of the City of Norwich, State of Connecti- cut, hereinafter called the Grantor, For and in consideration of the sum of Twenty- five Hundred ($2500) Dollars to me, in my said Capacity paid by Frank M. Finlayson and Ellen Finlayson, husband and wife, both of the City of Worcester, State of Mass- achusetts, the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge, do hereby write by virtue of the author- ity vested in me by a decree of the Probate Court of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, entered on the 8th day of September, A. D. 1931, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Frank M. Finlayson and Ellen Finlayson, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, their heirs and assigns, forever, All the right, title, and interest which said Fanny M. Holmes had at the time of her death in and to that certain tract of land, together with buildings and improve- ments thereon standing, situated and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washing- ton, bounded and described as follows: North, by land of A. G. Crumb, now or formerly mast by Road; South, by land, now or formerly of J. S. Robock, and west by Atlantic Ocean. Said land having a frontage of 15 feet, more or less, and a depth of 100 feet, more or less and containing about 1500 feet in area. (as per Quit-claim Deed filed August 13th, 1896, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto appertaining, unto and to the use of the said Grant k M. Finlayson and Ellen Finlayson, their heirs and assigns forever. Dudley T. Holmes, Executor of Estate of Fanny M. Holmes STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, In Charlestown on the 10th day of October, A. D. 1931, before me personally appeared Dudley T. Holmes, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the fore- going instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act and deed individually, and in his capacity as executor of the will of Fanny M. Holmes, deceased. Linton L. Brown, Notary Public. Received for record, October 10, 1931 at 4:10 o'clock P. M. and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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