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9/20/1935 · DEED · book 26 page 184 doc 9728

From WHITFORD NATHANIEL G life
To GRINNELL LEON M, GRINNELL PEARL
Premises twenty (20) acres, more or less · Tract bounded by State highway and Narrow Lane Road (Charlestown, Kenyon, Old Narragansett Indian Trail, Big Hill)

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

◀ 1927 · DEED · RICHARD ALFRED J → WHITFORD NATHANIEL G · book 23 p 117

Forward — where this land went

Follow forward ▶ 1955 · MORTGAGE · GRIFFITHS ALBERT E; GRIFFITHS LUCY W → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF PROVIDENCE · book 34 p 395
“conveyed by Nathaniel W. Jordan to Lewis M. Griffiths and his heirs”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1956 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → FLYNN JOHN F; FLYNN MARY B · book 35 p 356
“Being a portion of the premises conveyed by deed of Nathaniel G. Whitford to these Grantors”
cites this instrument as its source · read by gemma
Follow forward ▶ 1961 · MORTGAGE · FLYNN JOHN; FLYNN JOHN F; FLYNN MARY B → QUONSET POINT CREDIT UNION · book 37 p 495
“Being a portion of the premises conveyed by deed of Nathaniel G. Whitford to these Grantors”
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

▶ 1936 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M; KNUDSEN HOWARD N → · book 26 p 374
▶ 1938 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → MEIKLE A RAYMOND; A R MEIKLE CO · book 27 p 285
▶ 1939 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → GRINNELL LEROY C; GRINNELL LILLIAN H · book 28 p 13
▶ 1940 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GRINNELL LEON M → KNUDSEN HOWARD N · book 27 p 52
▶ 1941 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → BURDICK EDWARD E · book 28 p 468
▶ 1941 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → BREED GERTRUDE BESSIE; BREED LLOYD L · book 28 p 512
▶ 1942 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GRINNELL LEON M → JACKSON ARTHUR J; JACKSON NORMA G · book 27 p 217
▶ 1946 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → GRINNELL LEROY C; GRINNELL LILIAN H · book 30 p 19
▶ 1949 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → GRINNELL ALICE E; GRINNELL LESTER E · book 29 p 85
▶ 1949 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → MEIKLE A RAYMOND; MEIKLE HELEN C; MEIKLE A R · book 27 p 286
▶ 1949 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → MOOK HARRIET D; MOOK HENRY K · book 31 p 449
▶ 1949 · DEED · GRINNELL LEON M; GRINNELL PEARL M → LEE MARY O · book 31 p 578
▶ 1950 · PREL · GRINNELL LEON M → RATHBONE RICHARD A · book 32 p 93
▶ 1950 · PREL · GRINNELL LEON M → RATHBONE RICHARD A · book 32 p 214
▶ 1950 · PREL · GRINNELL LEON M → RATHBONE RICHARD A · book 32 p 216
▶ 1950 · RELEASE · GRINNELL LEON M → SAFFORD HARVEY C · book 31 p 663

The instrument's own words

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184 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, NATHANIEL G. WHITFORD, single, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to LEON M. GRINELL and PEARL GRINELL, husband and wife, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, both of said Town, County and State with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land, containing by estimation twenty (20) acres, more or less, situated in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of this tract at the junction of of Narrow Lane Road, so-called, and the State Highway leading from the Village of Kenyon to the Village of Charlestown, bounded north easterly by said State highway, a distance of 183y feet, more or less, to the corner of a tract of land owned by said Grantee, along said fence northerly by land of the Grantor, a distance of 47.3/7 foot to a stone bound marking the southerly line of a tract of land owned by said Grantee, a distance of 1540 feet, more or less, to a stone bound on the northeasterly side of said Narrow Lane Road, so-called, bounded southerly by said Narrow Lane Road, a distance of 47.3/7 feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning or however otherwise the same may be bound- ed or described. The Grantor hereby reserves for himself and his heirs, exclusively, a right-of-way with vehicles, 15 feet wide, across the hereby conveyed tract as now laid out and designated as the "Old Narragansett Indian Trail" The Grantor further reserves, for himself and his heirs, exclusively, the right and privilege to remove sand and gravel from the "Big Hill," so called, situated on the hereby conveyed tract, for use on the premises now employed by said Grantor. Witness my hand this 13th day of September, 1935. NATHANIEL G. WHITFORD (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50¢) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 13th day of September, 1935 before me personally appeared Nathaniel G. Whitford, the above-named Grantor, 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 Notary Public. Received for record September 20th, A. D. 1935 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 26 page 184).

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.