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1/14/1935 · DEED · book 25 page 689 doc 9548

From JOSEPH RACHAEL C
To BROWNING HATTIE E life
Premises Lot C and Lot D at Charlestown Beach (Charlestown Beach, Atlantic Ocean, Perry Creek Bridge, Devils Breach)

Back — where this land came from

will William S. Tefft
“interest under the will of William S. Tefft”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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deed Grantee
“Lot B, as conveyed to this Grantor by the Grantee”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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deed George C. Cross book 18 p 504505 Charlestown
“deed of George C. Cross to William S. Tefft and Rachael C. Joseph”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1935 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → JOSEPH RACHAEL C · book 25 p 687
◀ 1934 · AGREEMENT · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E; OLNEY CLARA G; JOSEPH RACHAEL C → JOSEPH RACHAEL C; OLNEY CLARA G; BROWNING ROSS E; BROWNING HATTIE E · book 25 p 457
◀ 1922 · DEED · BURDICK MARION G; BURDICK EDWARD E → JOSEPH RACHAEL C · book 20 p 273

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

▶ 1935 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → JOSEPH RACHAEL C · book 25 p 687
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → PERLEE FRED E; PERLEE GRACE D; PER LEE FRED E; PER LEE GRACE D · book 27 p 388
▶ 1938 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · PERLEE FRED E; PERLEE GRACE D; PER LEE FRED E; PER LEE GRACE D; BROWNI → BROWNING ROSS E · book 27 p 392
▶ 1948 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E; BROWNING ROSS E → TORREYSON MARY L · book 31 p 135
▶ 1956 · DEED · BROWNING HARRIET E; BROWNING HATTIE E → TORREYSON MARY L; BROWNING HARRIET E · book 35 p 445

The instrument's own words

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689 QUITCLAIM DEED. Rachael C. Joseph of the Town of Richmond, county of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to Mattie E. Browning of the City and County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS, That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:— Two certain tracts or parcels of land situated at Charlestown Beach in the Town of Charlestown, county of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, shown on a plat hereto attach- ed and made a part hereof, Lot C, being land owned by the grantor and grantee and Lot D, owned by the grantee, in which the grantor has an interest under the will of William S. Tefft and the buildings and improvements thereon. The first of said two tracts, shown as Lot C, on plat hereto attached and made a part hereof, is bounded and described as follows:— Commencing at a drill hole in a stone bound set by mutual agreement of the Grantor and Grantee, at the (89.62') corner northerly corner of Lot C; thence running southerly eighty nine and sixty two one-hundredths (89.62') feet to a drill hole in a stone bound set by mutual agreement of the Grantor and Grantee; thence continuing in the same straight line one hundred and twenty (120') feet more or less to mean high water line of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded easterly by Lot B, as conveyed to this Grantor by the Grantee; thence southeasterly following the mean high water line of the Atlantic Ocean until it intersects a line eighteen and two tenths (18.2') feet westerly of and parallel to the easterly line of Lot G; thence northerly two hundred and nine (209') feet more or less to the northeasterly corner of Lot C; thence northerly two hundred and ten (210') feet more or less to the place of beginning, bounded southerly by the Atlantic Ocean, westerly and northerly by Lot D, on said plat, a portion of the Smith Cottage so called being located thereon. The second tract being shown as Lot D, on plat hereto attached and made a part hereof, with all the buildings and improvements thereon, is bounded and described as follows:— Commencing at a drill hole in a stone bound set by mutual agreement of the Grantor and Grantee, in the southeasterly line of the public highway leading from Perry Creek Bridge to the Devils Breach; thence southerly bounded easterly by Lot A, eighty nine and fifty four one- hundredths (89.54') feet to a drill hole in a stone bound set by mutual agreement of the Grantor and grantee; whence westerly twenty eight and ninety eight one-hundredths (28.98') feet, bounded southerly by Lots B & C; thence southerly following a line one hundred and forty (140') feet easterly of and parallel to the westerly line of Lot B, two hundred and nine (209') feet more or less until it intersects the mean high water line of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded easterly by Lot C; thence southerly following the mean highwater line of the Atlantic Ocean until it intersects the westerly line of the hereby conveyed Lot D, bounded southerly by the Atlantic Ocean; thence northerly one hundred and five (105') feet more or less to a drill hole in a stone bound; thence northerly in the same straight line one hundred and eighty six and ninety two one- hundredths (186.92') feet to the northeasterly corner of Lot D, in the southerly line of the public highway, bounded westerly by land of Alfred Lee Young; thence northerly following the highway line thirty four and sixty eight one-hundredths (34.68') feet to a drill hole in a stone bound set at an angle in the highway line; thence northeasterly following the line of the public highway, one hundred thirty six and thirty two one-hundredths (136.32') feet to the place of beginning, bounded northeasterly by the public highway, or however bounded. meaning and intending to convey all the interest of the Grantor in Lot C, reference being made and made to the deed of George C. Cross to William S. Tefft and Rachael C. Joseph recorded in Land Evidence Record of Charlestown in Book No. 18, at pages 504, 505, dated
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689 HIGHWAY 40' 40' STONE BOUND 34.68' STONE BOUND 136.32' STONE BOUND 36.21' 07.2' STONE BOUND N 63.45' A 93.37' STONE BOUND CLARA G. OLNEY Bound 28.90' 46.58' 45.47' TRUE MERIDIAN D C B W. C. Road Bound 19.45' 12.1' RACHAEL C. JOSEPH Stone Bound 186.32' ALFRED LEE YOUNG STONE BOUND STONE BOUND HOTEL $\text{E TOP OF BANK}$ 2 140' $103'\pm$ MEAN HIGH WATER LINE 2/11/34 $18.2'$ $11.6'$ $88\pm$ $88\pm$ ATLANTIC OCEAN PLAT OF LAND AT CHARLESTOWN BEACH IN THE TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN, R.I., ACCOMPANYING THE DEED OF RACHAEL C. JOSEPH TO MATTIE E. BROWNING SURVEYED AND PLATTED APRIL-MAY, 1934, BY LEON L. HOLLAND, CIVIL ENGINEER. SCALE $1" = 25'$

The page as recorded

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