The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 9051

7/1/1932 · EASEMENT · book 25 page 128 doc 9051

From MAYO FRANCES, MAYO JAMES life
To SOUTH COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE CO
Premises right and easement for electric and telephone lines (Charlestown, Old Mill Road)

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

◀ 1917 · DEED · MAYO ANTONIO → MAYO JAMES · book 18 p 510
◀ 1915 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · JAMES VARNUM → MAYO JAMES; MAYO ANTONIO · book 17 p 39
◀ 1911 · DEED · JAMES VARNUM → MAYO JAMES; MAYO ANTONIO · book 17 p 30

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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128 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we, James Mayo and wife Frances Mayo, of Charlestown, Washington County, State of Rhode Island, (hereinafter called the Grantors), in consideration of ONE DOLLAR paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hereby grant unto the SOUTH COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, a Rhode Island corporation, (here- inafter called the Grantee) its successors and assigns, with warranty covenants, the perpetual right and easement to erect, maintain and operate for the transmission and distribution of electric current and for telephone use, lines of wires and cables over and across our land situated in the Town of Charlestown, Washington County, State of Rhode Island. Said wires and cables to enter from land now covered by easement to the said Grantors by the said Grantors, dated December 11, 1928 and recorded in the Land Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book No. 23, Page 335, and cross in a northerly direction to a public travelled way known as "Old Mill Road". Also the perpetual right and easement from time to time without further payment thereto, to trim such trees in or adjacent to the line as may endanger the safety or operation of said line, and to remove, replace, add to and otherwise change said line and each and every part thereof, and to pass over the Grantors' land to and from said line as reasonably required. It is agreed that the line shall remain the property of the Grantee, its successors and assigns, and that the Grantee, its successors and assigns, shall pay all taxes assessed thereon. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the aforementioned Grantors hereunto set their hands this 10th day of June, 1932. WITNESSES: LINTON L. BROWN S.T. SISWICK JAMES X MAYO (L. S. his mark her FRANCES X MAYO (L. S.) mark STATE OF RHODE ISLAND WASHINGTON, Sc. In Charlestown in said County on the 10th day of June, 1932, before me personally appeared the above named Grantors, James Mayo and Frances Mayo (husband and wife) each and all to me known, and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument by then executed to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record July 1st, A. D. 1932 at 6:10 o'clock P. 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.