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8/18/1934 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · book 25 page 507 doc 9388

From CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF life, GARDINER FLORA L
To THORP HOWARD E life
Premises not stated · Three tracts of land on the shore of Charlestown Pond (Charlestown Pond, West Channel)

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

◀ 1932 · DEED · QUONY REALTY CORP → CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF · book 25 p 132
◀ 1924 · DEED · THORP HOWARD E; THORP HATTIE M → GARDINER FLORA LUCAS · book 21 p 351

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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354 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, WILLIAM B. HOWES, of the City of Brooklyn, New York for consideration paid, grant to LILLIAN HOWES, of said City and State with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: First Tract: Beginning at a stone bound on the shore of Charlestown Pond, and running thence in a westerly direction along the land of Estate of Thomas L. Arnold four hundred eight-seven and seventy one hundredths feet to a stone bound then turning slightly to the right angle and running northerly one hundred fifty (150) feet to a stone bound thence turning south eighty nine degrees thirty six minutes, thirty six seconds, thirty six seconds, thirty (30) seconds, and running northeasterly one hundred thirty seven hundred ninety-one and one hundredths (137.91) feet to a stone bound thence turning north easterly angle of one hundred twenty nine hundred thirteen (129) degrees, five (5) minutes, and running southeasterly one hundred twenty-four feet sixty-two and six tenths (124.6) feet, more or less, to the shore of Charlestown Pond thence southerly along the shore of said Pond one hundred (100) feet, more or less, to the point or place of beginning. Second Tract: Beginning at a point on the shore of Charlestown Pond at the northmost corner of land now owned by Grantor, the boundary line of said land running southeasterly one hundred eighty four feet, to a stone bound thence westerly two hundred twenty-seven feet, to a stone bound turning into asterior angle one hundred twenty-five 72.5 feet, to a stone bound running northeasterly one hundred thirty-seven feet, to a stone bound Grantor thence turning into asterior angle of one hundred thirty-five degrees to a stone bound thence continuing to a stone bound at the south- east corner of land of Barbara Arnold, et al. thence on the same direction 51.25 feet to a stone bound thence turning into an interior angle of 75° 50' and running 45.9 feet southeasterly, 204 feet to a stone bound thence in the same direction 11.2 feet, more or less, to the shore of Charlestown Pond, bounding east- erly land formerly owned by Estate of Thomas L. Arnold, thence the shore of Charlestown Pond 29 feet, more or less to point of beginning. Now a part of the reservation of the original purchase of tracts, reference is hereby made and with map to plot on file in the Town Clerks's Office of said Town, Land Evidence Book Page 24, Town Plt. 212. Third Tract Beginning at a point on the northeasterly corner of a certain lot described by Thomas L. Arnold to Ezra Mutual by a deed re- corded date May 12, 1844, with the Clerk, of said Town, in Land Evidence Book No. 24 Page 11, thence running southerly along the east line of said lot one hundred feet along the boundary of the Atlantic Ocean twenty-five (25) feet running thence southerly running northerly and easterly 100 feet to the northeast corner of lot of said Ezra L. Mutual to a proposed road running thence westerly along the southerly boundary of the said proposed road to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise bounded. Together with a covenant with the Grantee that the above described and the Estate of the Thomas L. Arnold to the above described pre- mises from the present Grantor to said Grantee and the boundary of Thomas L. Arnold located on the shore of Charlestown Pond known as the West Channel Meaning and intending by this presents to convey to said Grantee all the right, title, interest, property, claim and de- mand I now own in and any all real estate located in said Town of Charlestown. I hereby covenant that the consideration of this instrument is less than one hundred dollars. WITNESS my hand this 9th day of September, 1933. WILLIAM B. HOWES. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 9th day of September, 1933 before me personally appeared William B. Howes, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing Instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN (SEAL) Notary Public. Received for record September 9th, A. D. 1933 at 5:00 o'clock p. m., and recorded by Town Clerk.
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277 State of Rhode Island County of Providence In Providence, in said County, on the 24th day of February, 1933, before me personally appeared Wilson G. Wing, Treasurer of Charlestown Estates, Inc., to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed to be his free act and deed and the free act and deed of said Charlestown Estates, Inc. EVELYN H. LONERGAN Notary Public. Received for record March 18th, A. D. 1933 at 2:40 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.