The Deed Walker · From Ninigret · Charlestown, Rhode Island land evidence, 1738 to today
Trail: 9219

6/28/1933 · DEED · book 25 page 312 doc 9219

From MATTHEWS FRANCIS E, MATTHEWS IRENE C
To MILLER ALICE E life
Premises dwelling house and barn at Quonochontaug Beach and two cottage lots (Quonochontaug 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 A. White and Jane P. Vara book 15 p 14 Charlestown
“granted to Frank A. Matthews and Isaac E. Matthews by deed from Alfred A. White and Jane P. Vara”
◀ Follow back 1904 · DEED · CHAPPELL JANE E → ROSE WILLIAM B; ROSE CORA B · book 15 p 14
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deed Mary Alice Date Matthews book 18 p 397 Charlestown
“granted to Frank A. Matthews et ux by deed from Mary Alice Date Matthews”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
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Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1946 · DEED · HOOD CHARLES L; HOOD EDITH N → HOPKINS HELENE E; HOPKINS JOHN P · book 29 p 686
“conveyed to this Grantor by deed from 1936-1965 era... recorded... in Book 25 Page 312”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1954 · DEED · DONAHUE KATHERINE; DONAHUE MALACHI → MCHUGH JAMES · book 34 p 11
“being the same premises described in that certain deed dated October 21, 1925 recorded in the Land Evidence records”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma

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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312 I, Francis E. Matthews, for of consideration paid, grant to Alice E. 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 commoner in common under the will of my late father Frank A. Matthews and in to A certain tract or piece of land, together with dwelling house, barn and other buildings thereon standing, situate at Quonochontaug Beach, in the town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at northwest corner of said land at the Beach (leading from Ocean to Salt Pond, thence running southeasterly by the beach land now or formerly of John P. McCann and wife, about two hundred feet (200) to the north- easterly corner of said land at the beach, thence running westerly thence running southerly bordered southeasterly by said highway ninety (90) feet thence southerly by the beach land, thence running westerly bounded southerly by said land now or formerly of James Blakey and wife to the southeasterly corner of said land at the Beach, about two hundred (200) feet (be the same or more less), thence running northerly bound- ed westerly by said Beach ninety (90) feet to the first mentioned bounds. Being the same land granted to Frank A. Matthews and Isaac E. Matthews by deed from Alfred A. White and Jane P. Vara dated October 16, 1899 and recorded in Book No. 15, Page 14 of the Records of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I. Also two certain tracts or parcels of land situated at Quonochontaug Beach in the town of Charlestown in said County of Washington: The first of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: North- erly on lot number eleven (11) as delineated on a plot of cottage sites located at Quonochontaug Beach, filed with the Recorder of Deeds in the Clerk's Office in said Charlestown easterly on the second lot herein described, southerly on lot number ten (10) on said plot, and westerly erly on the Old Quonochontaug Beachway, being lot number ten (10) on said plot of cottages at Quonochontaug Beach; The second of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: Begin- ning at the northeast corner of above lot number ten (10) hereinbefore described thence northeasterly along the land of land now for- merly of Alexander L. Patterson to a point forty (40) feet west of the stone wall situate thence northerly on a line forty (40) feet from said stone wall to a point about one hundred and forty (140) feet (125) feet in a straight line until it comes to a point fifty (50) feet from the western edge of the stone wall said lot number ten (10) thence continuing westerly in the same direction about twenty six (26) feet until it intersects the western edge of said lot number ten (10) thence easterly or southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot number ten (10) to the northeast corner of said lot number ten (10) of said lot number ten (10) and beginning again to the south- east corner of lot number ten (10) and beginning again to the south- highway near the wall, as well as provided in Former deed of the same premises. with a right of way with teams and on foot, and from said lot to the Being the same land granted to Frank A. Matthews et ux by deed from Mary Alice Date Matthews dated May 1, 1911 recorded in Book No. 18 at page 397 of the Records of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I. And I, Irene C. Matthews wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises. WITNESS our hands this 20th day of May 1933. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, $2.00) FRANCIS E. MATTHEWS IRENE C. MATTHEWS STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) COUNTY OF PROVIDENCE ) In Providence on the 20th day of May, 1933 before me personally appeared Francis E. Matthews to me known and known by me to be one of the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed, to be his free act and deed. JOHN W. RAIN Notary Public.
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313 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Canal Zone Cristobal, Canal Zone Isthmus of Panama In Cristobal, C. Z. on the fifth day of June 1933 before me personally appeared Irene C. Matthews to me known and known by me to be one of the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. MAUDE W. FULLER Notary Public within and for the Canal Zone My Commission Expires December 9, 1933. Balboa Heights, C. Z., June 7, 1933. United States of America Canal Zone Balboa Heights, Canal Zone Isthmus of Panama I, C. A. McIlvaine, Executive Secretary for The Panama Canal, in charge of the Seal of the Government of the Canal Zone, HEREBY CERTIFY that Maude W. Fuller was on the fifth day of June A. D. 1933, duly commissioned as a Notary Public and that her signature is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereom written, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a NOTARY PUBLIC of the Canal Zone, and such proof or acknowledgment was made before her, after she had been sworn, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am familiar with the hand- writing of such person and that the handwriting is hers and that the signature to the said proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And I certify that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws in force throughout the Canal Zone. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Government of the Canal Zone this seventh day of June, A. D., One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. C. A. MC ILVAINE. Received for record June 28th, A. D. 1933 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and re- corded 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.