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9/18/1935 · DEED · book 26 page 181 doc 9725

From BEHNEKE MARIE R Y, BEHNEKE NORMAN L
To BROOKS EDWARD E life
Premises five thousand (5,000) square feet · Tract bounded by Main Street and land of Joseph Smith (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

deed Edward Sigur Brooks book 167 p 143 Charlestown
“conveyed to the Grantor by deed of Edward Sigur Brooks of page 143 volume 167”
the cited instrument is not in the index we hold (not_in_index)
read by: gemma

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1935 · DEED · BEHNEKE ROSE M Y → BEHNEKE NORMAN L; DEBAENE BLANCHE H · book 26 p 65
◀ 1932 · DEED · BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BURDICK MARION GERTRUDE → BEHNEKE MARIE ROSE YVONNE · book 25 p 145
◀ 1935 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · BEHNEKE MARIE R Y; BURDICK EDWARD EDGAR; BURDICK MARION GERTRUDE → BEHNEKE MARIE R Y · book 26 p 180

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 · BROOKS ALICE K; BROOKS EDWARD E → BROOKS EDWARD E; BROOKS ALICE K · book 26 p 232
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROOKS EDWARD E → BROOKS ALICE K · book 27 p 357
▶ 1939 · MORTGAGE · BROOKS ALICE K; BROOKS EDWARD E → DISASTER LOAN CORPORATION · book 27 p 496

The instrument's own words

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181 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, MARIE R. Y. BEHNEKE, of the town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to EDWARD S. BROOKS, of the City and County of New London, State of Connecticut, with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain tract or parcel of real estate situated in the town of Charlestown, County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, bounds and describes as follows: Commencing at the southeasterly corner of the lot of Edward S. Brooks then running southeasterly running southeasterly (59) feet along the boundary line of Real Estate Company Ltd. and by the boundary there at an interior angle of ninety (90) degrees and running northeasterly one hundred (100) feet to the lot of Joseph Smith, etc. (by formerly of Thomas F. Reilly) then running southeasterly at an angle of ninety (90) degrees and running northeasterly, similarly (59) feet along the southeasterly corner line of Edward S. Brooks then running at an angle of ninety (90) degrees and running northeasterly following the southerly the line of land of Edward S. Brooks one hundred (100) feet back to the line of land of Edward S. Brooks one hundred (100) feet back to the line of beginning Bounded southeasterly by a street or way forty feet wide and running east and west between Main Street, southwesterly by other land of the Grantor, northeasterly by land of Joseph Smith, etc. and northwesterly by land of Edward S. Brooks, or how ever bounded. Containing five thousand (5,000) square feet. The foregoing tract or parcel of land being a portion of the premises heretofore conveyed to the Grantor by deed of Edward Sigur Brooks of page 143 volume 167 of the land records of Charlestown. The above described premises are conveyed by me Grantor subject to the following covenants, conditions and restrictions: 1. Only a private residence, including a private garage structure (which garage is not to be used as a residence) shall be erected, placed, maintained or permitted upon said premises. No trade or business structure or no detached toilet structure created thereon; no building shall be erected on said premises which shall extend in any part within 20 feet of the southeasterly boundary line, nor within 5 feet of the southeasterly boundary line. 2. Gold premises, or any part thereof shall not be used for any trade or business or commercial purposes or purposes for any public purpose whatever. 3. In case of a contemplated sale of said tract, said Grantee shall be given thirty (30) days' notice in writing and shall be and have the op- tion to purchase the same at the highest bona fide price made and actually offered for said tract. Price and conditions. 4. The plans and specifications of all buildings erected or to be erected must be approved by the Grantor. I, NORMAN L. BEHNEKE, husband of the Grantor, release to said Grantee, all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforementioned premises. WITNESS our hands this 17th day of September, A. D. 1935. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS, 50¢) MARIE R. YVONNE BEHNEKE NORMAN L. BEHNEKE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 17th day of September, A. D. 1935, personally appeared before me, the above-named Grantor, Marie R. Y. Behneke and her husband, Norman L. Behneke, both 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. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record September 13th, A. D. 1935 at 9:05 o'clock, a. 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.