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1/10/1933 · DEED · book 25 page 251 doc 9161

From MATTHEWS CLIFFORD C, MATTHEWS C ALTHEA
To MILLER ALICE E life
Premises dwelling house and barn at Quonsetochant Beach and two cottage site tracts (Quonsetochant Beach, Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

will Frank A. Matthews
“under the will of my late father Frank A. Matthews”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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deed Alfred G. Vane and Jane F. Vane book 1 p 256 Charlestown
“granted to Frank A. Matthews and Susan E. Matthews by deed from Alfred G. Vane and Jane F. Vane”
◀ Follow back 1743 · DEED · GRIFFETH PHILIP; GRIFFETH ELENOR → ADDAMS JOHN · book 1 p 256
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deed Mary L. Dice book 16 p 357 Charlestown
“granted to Frank Matthews at ux by deed from Mary L. Dice”
◀ Follow back 1918 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · PEABODY HARRY L ADMINISTRATOR; PEABODY ELLA L ESTATE OF → PEABODY HERBERT E; PEABODY GEORGIE F · book 16 p 357
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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 · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → SMITH ROBERT J · book 28 p 447
▶ 1941 · MORTGAGE · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → THORP HOWARD E; THORP MARY E · book 28 p 518
▶ 1946 · DEED · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → RODGERS FREDERICK T; RODGERS MARY; ELDREDGE ANN; ELDREDGE ERNEST A; JE · book 30 p 25
▶ 1946 · DEED · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → MAINE BELVA B; MAINE WILSON D · book 30 p 27
▶ 1946 · DEED · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → COUTU JOHN J; COUTU LORAINE · book 30 p 138
▶ 1947 · DEED · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAURENCE C; MILLER LAWRENCE C → COVE POINT INC · book 30 p 454
▶ 1950 · DEED · MILLER ALICE E; MILLER LAWRENCE C → CRANDALL C ANNETTE; CRANDALL COLBY H · book 32 p 311

The instrument's own words

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251 I, Clifford C. Matthews, of the City and County and Province in the State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Alice B. Miller, of South Orange, New Jersey with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: All my right, title and interest as tenant in common under the will of my late father Frank A. Matthews, in and to A certain tract or piece of land, together with dwelling house, barn and other buildings thereon, all standing unity, situated at Quonsetochant Beach, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, which said land is bounded as follows: Beginning at northport corner of said land at the Beach (leading from Ocean Street to the beach) then running easterly marked boundary westerly on land now or formerly of John P. McKenna and wife, about two hundred feet (200) to the northeast corner of said land at the highway (be the same corner or not) then running southerly marked boundary easterly on said highway ninety (90) feet to the southeast corner of said tract of land, thence running southwesterly marked boundaries by a hand row or formerly of James Blakey and wife to the southwest corner of said lot at the highway, thence running northerly (500) feet (be the same corner or less), thence running northerly marked boundary westerly by said Breach ninety feet (90) to the beginning here first described. Being the same land granted to Frank A. Matthews and Susan E. Matthews by deed from Alfred G. Vane and Jane F. Vane dated October 16, 1905 and recorded in Book M No. 1 Page 256 of the Records of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I. Also two certain tracts or pieces of land situated at Quonsetochant in the Town of Charlestown, in said County of Washington: The first of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: Northerly on lot number eleven (11) as delineated on a plat or cottage sites located at Quonsetochant Beach, said plat being on record in the Town Clerk's Office in Charlestown easterly; easterly on the second lot marked boundary outlined on said plat size (9) said plats and westerly on the old Quonsetochant Broadway; being most lot number twelve (12) on said plat of cottage sites. The second of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southern corner of cottage lot number ten (10) henceforth described; thence easterly along the line of said lot number ten (10) forty feet until it comes to a point a forty (40) feet west of the stone wall; thence northerly on a line a forty (40) feet west of the stone wall ninety (90) feet to the northeast corner of said lot number and twenty-five (25) feet in a straight line until it comes to a point thirty (30) feet east of the northeast corner of said lot number ten (10) thence continuing westerly in the same direction about twenty-six (26) feet until it comes to the northeast line of said lot number ten (10); thence easterly or southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot number ten (10) thirty (30) feet to the northeast corner of said number ten (10); thence southerly the line of said lot number ten (10) and lot twelve (12) forty (40) feet to the beginning, said land a right of way, with teams and on foot, from and said lot to the highway near the wall, as in former deed of the same premises. Being the same land granted to Frank Matthews at ux by deed from Mary L. Dice dated March 12, 1910 and recorded in Book No. 16 at Page 357 of the Records of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I. And I, C. Althea Matthews the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 7th day of January 1933. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, $2.00) CLIFFORD C. MATTHEWS C. ALTHEA MATTHEWS STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Providence ) In Providence on the 7th day of January, 1933 before me personally appeared Clifford C. Matthews and C. Althea Matthews 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. JOHN W. BAKER, Notary Public. Received for record January 10th, A. D. 1933 at 10 o'clock a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.
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349 (b) Also that certain lot or parcel of land lying between the Shelter Harbor property line as designated and delineated on the aforesaid map and the Post Road, so-called, which is marked on said map as "Private Property of Dr. Franklin D. Lawson." (c) Also a tract of land lying North of the Post Road, aforesaid, generally known as the Perkins Farm, containing forty and one-half acres, more or less, particularly described in a deed recorded in the Land Records of said Town of Westerly, in Book No. 42, and Page 400, and in the Land Records of said Town of Charlestown, in Book No. 18, at page 147. (d) Also a tract of land lying North of the Post Road aforesaid, generally known as the Alner Browning Farm particularly described in a deed recorded in the Land Records of said Town of Westerly, in Book No. 49, at page 11, and containing approximately one hundred sixty-three acres of land. (e) Also all driveways, parks, square, groves, forests, dunes and the beach lying south thereof as designated and delineated on the aforesaid maps and also all land conveyed to this grantor by deed from this grantee of even date herewith and also including Symphony Beach extending from line marked "Westpawuk" easterly to line marked "U. S. Life Station," containing about forty-five hundred (4500) linear feet of ocean beach. (f) Also that certain lot or parcel of land adjacent to and just north of the Dunes designated on said map as "Private property of Dr. Franklin D. Lawson," bounded on the east by a line parallel and four hundred (400) feet west of the division line of the Towns of Westerly and Charlestown running from a point where said parallel line intersects said Dunes in a generally western direction four hundred (400) feet bounded on the south by said Dunes and the Atlantic Ocean, thence turning at an angle of approximately ninety (90°) degree and running in a general northerly direction including and including the parcel marked Madrigal Island and all beach and beach lots shown on said map. Meaning and intending hereby to convey to said mortgagee all and singular the parcels of land mentioned and described in two deeds from Shelter Harbor Corporation to the mortgagor herein, the first of which said deeds is dated the 16th day of December, A. D. 1926 and is recorded in Land Evidence Records in said Westerly in Book 53 at pages 139 to 140, Charlestown Book 24 page 54, and the second of said deed being dated the 26th day of June A. D. 1928 and recorded in said Land Evidence Records of said Westerly in Book 53 at page 141, Charlestown Book 24, page 56, and which said properties are delineated and marked out on "Map of Shelter Harbor formally known and recorded as Muscutuxly (name changed March 1st, 1918) property of Franklin D. Lawson Towns of Westerly, R. I. engraved by the Williams Map and Guide Co. from a survey made in 1912 by George W. Woodard, scale 400 feet to the inch and which said map is recorded in said Land Evidence Records of said Westerly in Book 53 at page 140; and which said properties are also shown on "Map of Bungalow Sites Called Musicality Property of Dr. Franklin D. Lawson, in the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island, 1912, scale 200 feet to an inch by George W. Woodward" which said map is contained in two sheets, sheet two of which is recorded on page 65 from Plat Book No. 2 in said Westerly and sheet one of which is recorded in Plat Book No. 2 at page 88, as well as all other land owned by said mortgagor and in any way herein referred to by plat or otherwise. The above described premises are conveyed subject to mortgages restrictions, ease- ments, and attachments of record. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the said granted and bargained premises, with all the privileges, and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining to the said grantee, its successors and assigns, forever.
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351 STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF WASHINGTON In Westerly on the 20th day of May, A. D. 1933, before me personally appeared Benjamin F. Moulton and Walter K. Pullen, to me known, and known by me to be the President and Treasurer respectively of Shelter Harbor Country Club, and they acknowledged said above instrument by them executed for and in behalf of said Shelter Harbor Country Club, to be their individual and official free act and deed, and the free act and deed of said cor- poration. S. EVERETT WILKINS, JR. Notary Public. Received for record September 2nd, A. D. 1933, at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

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