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1/7/1941 · DEED · book 28 page 377 doc 8@28/377

From PECKHAM PHILIP H life
To SANDS HAROLD C
Premises none · Lot 13 on Revised Plat of Land from Heed H. Kenyon (Charlestown, Gardiner, North River Junction)
Index description INDIAN CEDAR SWAMP

Back — where this land came from

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

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

◀ 1940 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BOCEMDES FANNIE DEHO → PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 28 p 269
◀ 1940 · TAX COLLECTOR'S DEED · BOCEMDES FANNIE DEHO → PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 28 p 268
◀ 1938 · TAX SALE RETURN · LINDBERG HAROLD; HOLLOWAY ROBERT E; PECKHAM ABBY NILES; NILES PECKHAM → MURTAGH WEISS COMPANY; GRILLS FRANK; PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 27 p 258
◀ 1934 · DEED · POWELL EMMA J → PECKHAM CLARA F; PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 25 p 623
◀ 1922 · DEED · PULLEY WILLIAM H; PULLEY MARY → PECKHAM PHILIP H; PECKHAM CLARA F · book 20 p 165
◀ 1921 · DEED · PERKINS M JANETTE ESTATE OF; GREENE CHAS J EXECUTOR → PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 19 p 421
◀ 1921 · DEED · PECKHAM ALBERT F; PECKHAM NORA T → PECKHAM PHILIP H · book 19 p 429

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

▶ 1941 · DEED · SANDS HAROLD C; SANDS ELIZABETH HAYNES; HAYNES SANDS ELIZABETH → STOKES J G PHELPS · book 28 p 412

The instrument's own words

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265 We, Victor Tougas and Marie R. Tougas, husband and wife of Charlestown, Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to The Diamond Match Company, a Delaware corporation having a usual place of business at Wakefield, Rhode Island with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of Twenty-five hundred (2500) Dollars on December 1, 1940 with interest at five per cent per annum, payable on demand, as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith, That certain tract or parcel of land, situated in town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the northerly side of the State Highway leading from the Village of Gardiner to the North River Junction; said point being Eight Hundred Twenty-five (825) feet easterly from the intersection of said road set in a north easterly southwesterly corner of premises of William J. Gardiner, et ux thence northerly southeasterly maintaining the line of the road, thence westerly a distance of One Hundred Twenty-five (125) feet boundary of said Gardiner land, a distance of Three Hundred Fifty (350) feet, thence turning northerly maintaining the line of the road, thence westerly a distance of Eight Hundred Twenty-five (825) feet; thence turning a westerly direction, thence northerly a distance of Three Hundred Twenty-five (325) feet; thence turning at right angles and running southerly a distance of Three Hundred Twenty-five (325) feet to the northerly side of said State Highway; thence turning and running westerly, bounded southerly by said State Highway; a distance of One Hundred Twenty-five (125) feet to the point of place and beginning of these premises. Meaning and intending to convey the premises as shown and designated as Lot 13, on that Plat entitled, "Revised Plat of Land - Town of Charlestown - From Heed . H. Kenyon, 1939" by C. F. [?] Surveyor, said plat being recorded in the office of the records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book No. 28 at Page 92. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. We, the said mortgagors release to the mortgagee all our right of curtesy and dower and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. WITNESS our hands this 12th day of July 1940. VICTOR TOUGAS MARIE R. TOUGAS STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 12th day of July, 1940 before me personally appeared Victor Tougas and Marie R. Tougas to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN (Notarial Seal) Notary Public. Received for record July 17th, A. D. 1940 at 11:58 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk ---- DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that The Diamond Match Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware and having a place of business in Biddeford, Maine owner of a certain mortgage given by Victor Tougas and Marie R. Tougas to The Diamond Match Company, recorded in Land Evidence of Charlestown, Rhode Island in Book 265, Page 265, does hereby acknowledge that it has received full payment and satisfaction of the same, and of the debt secured therein and in consideration of said payment and satisfaction, does hereby release and quit claim and lease unto the said Victor Tougas and Marie R. Tougas, their heirs and assigns forever the premises thereby mortgaged. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said The Diamond Match Company has hereunto set its hand and seal this twenty-sixth day of March A. D. 1941. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of [signature] (Corporate Seal) Attest: G. LUCAS Secretary THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY By H. F. Holman Vice President STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK SS. March 26, 1941 Then personally appeared the above named H. F. Holman and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be the free act and deed of The Diamond Match Company Before me Charles J. Sellman Notary Public, Nassau County Clerk No. 476 Certificate filed in New York County March 26, 1941 Above discharge received for record April 3rd, A. D. 1941 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk

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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.