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1/12/1937 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · book 26 page 595 doc 8@26/595

From MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT, ROBINSON M A
To MURTAGH WEISS COMPANY
Premises piece of land (Charlestown)
Index description AP 3 LOT 10

Back — where this land came from

deed Stanton C. Saunders and Carl W. Saunders book 24 p 354 Charlestown
“deed recorded in the land evidence records, of said Town, viz: Land Evidence records of said Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1932 · DEED · COLE JULIA A → MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT · book 25 p 156
◀ 1932 · DEED · COLE JULIA A → MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT · book 25 p 155

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

▶ 1937 · DEED · MURTAGH HATTIE E; MURTAGH JAMES J; WEISS ELMER M; MURTAGH WEISS COMPAN → BOWLER EARL B · book 27 p 63

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
596 STATE of RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1936, before me personally appeared Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by him executed executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by him executed to be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record January 12th, A. D. 1937 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk. ---- TO ALL PERSONS WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: Greetings. SAID B. BOWLER, Collector of Taxes, for the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington State and State of Rhode Island, for the year, 1935. SEND GREETING: Whereas the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their Annual Financial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 5th day of April, A. D. 1935, voted and ordered that the town assess and collect a tax of 150 per mille on all real estate and 100 per mille on all personal property of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; and Whereas, pursuant to said vote, I, said Karl B. Bowler, as Secretary of said Town taxes made such assessment and fixed the rate thereof at 150 per mille on each hundred dollars of real estate and 100 per mille on each hundred dollars of tangible personal property, and the tax bill is due for payment to be delivered with the tax warrants to the Collector of Taxes, and by the authority of said Town, delivering me in proceeding according to law collecting and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury. AND WHEREAS, STANTON C. SAUNDERSON and CARL W. SAUNDERSON, neglected to pay the tax assessed against them as expressed in said tax bill amounting to Two hundred Forty Dollars Eighty Cents ($240.80), and in default of payment of said tax, on the 5th day of August, A. D. 1936 I did sell upon a certain tract of land belonging to said Stanton C. Saunders and Carl W. Saunders, situated in said Town of Charlestown, and described in a deed recorded in the land evidence records of Charlestown, viz: Town Hall, Town Clerk's Office and Office of the Shoppock of Newmark, also and in the office of the Register of Deeds of the County of Washington, in the public place of said town, twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 30th day of July, A. D. 1936, at two o'clock, p. m., the premises aforesaid, and the highest bidder was the MURTAGH WEISS COMPANY, and I, as Collector of Taxes, and Murtagh-Weiss Company of, Shamrock, R. I., was the highest bidder. NOW, KNOW YE, that in consideration of the sum of eleven Dollars Sixty-four Cents ($11.64) to me in hand paid by the said Murtagh-Weiss Company, the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge, I do hereby sell and convey unto the said Murtagh-Weiss Company, its or their heirs and assigns, forever, all that right, title and interest which said Stanton C. Saunders and Carl W. Saunders had in the premises aforesaid, and in said tax sale, viz: All that certain piece of land belonging to the inhabitants There belonging for a description of said premises, reference is hereby made and mentioned to be had to the deed recorded in the land evidence records, of said Town, viz: Land Evidence records of said Charlestown, Book 24, Pages 354 and 355 reference to said plat and records being hereunto annexed. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Murtagh-Weiss Company, its or their heirs and assigns, forever, (subject to the right of redemption as provided by law). And I, the said Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, do covenant with the said Murtagh-Weiss Company, it or their heirs and assigns, that I have duly advertised the said premises as heretofore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of taxes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of August, A. D. 1936. In the presence of: [Signature] Linton L. Brown KARL B. BOWLER Collector of Taxes f. Town of Charlestown for the year 1935. STATE of RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1936, before me personally appeared Karl B. Bowler, Collector of Taxes, aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his own free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid. Linton L. Brown Notary Public. Received for record January 12th, A. D. 1937 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.

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.