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10/15/1935 · DEED · book 26 page 198 doc 9742

From WILLIAMS ARTHUR G life, WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D life
To MOULTON LILLIAN GAMWELL
Premises 1400 square feet (Tract 1) · Two tracts of beach land at West Beach (West Beach, Charlestown, Moulton farm, Surfside Avenue)

Back — where this land came from

deed Harris W. Taylor book 25 p 551 Charlestown
“conveyed to this grantor by Harris W. Taylor by deed dated September 15, 1934”
◀ Follow back 1934 · DEED · TAYLOR HARRIS W → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 25 p 551
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deed
“conveyed to this grantor by deed dated September 15, 1934 deed dated September, 1935”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

◀ 1935 · DEED · CHARLESTOWN ESTATES INC → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 26 p 193
◀ 1934 · DEED · TAYLOR HARRIS W → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 25 p 551
◀ 1933 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · PALMER HOWARD D → WILLIAMS ARTHUR G; WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 25 p 136
◀ 1932 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · PALMER HOWARD D → WILLIAMS ARTHUR G; WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 25 p 133
◀ 1928 · DEED · DAVIS SAMUEL H; DAVIS NINA H → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 23 p 198
◀ 1923 · DEED · WILCOX WILLIAM A; WILCOX AUGUSTA L → WILLIAMS ELIZABETH D · book 21 p 46

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

▶ 1947 · DEED · MOULTON LILLIAN GAMWELL; MOULTON DAVID P EST → WEEDEN LAND CO · book 30 p 360

The instrument's own words

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198 I, Elizabeth D. Williams, of the Town of Windsor, County of Hartford, State of Connecticut for consideration paid, grant to Lillian Gamwell Moulton, of the City of Providence, County of Providence, 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 of beach land situated at West Beach, so called in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded and de- scribed as follows, to wit: First Tract Containing about one thousand four hundred (1400) square feet, more or less, and being the easterly one-half of lot designated as lot No. 10, as appeared on a plat map filed in the Town Clerk's office of Charlestown, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the south- easterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed as laid land in the said Charlestown, then north westly there from by land formerly of Daniel Sleigh Seventy (70) feet; thence west bounded northerly by the second tract here- before described Seventy (70) feet to the south-west corner of the premises hereby conveyed; thence south Seventy (70) feet to the south-east corner of the premises hereby conveyed; thence east Seventy (70) feet to the point of place of beginning, bounded on the lost three northernmost sides by from the south-east corner of the premises hereby conveyed east water from the said Moulton farm for use on said tracts also right of way to pass with teams or on foot across the remaining one-half of premises conveyed herein and intending to convey the easterly one-half of premises conveyed to this grantor by Harris W. Taylor by deed dated September 15, 1934 and duly recorded in the land evidence records of the Town Clerk of said book 25 at page 551. Second Tract Beginning at a point on the south side of Surfside Avenue, south-east, said point being Twenty (20) feet easterly from the north-east cor- ner of lot 10, as on Assessors Plat No. 1; thence running east along said surfside Avenue Seventy (70) feet to the north-east corner of the Surfside Avenue Twenty (20) feet, more or less, then running south hereby conveyed thence running southerly fifteen (15) feet, more or less, to tract one herein before described then running east Seventy (70) feet to the north-east corner of Tract One hereinbefore described; thence North Fifteen (15) feet, more or less, to the point of place of beginning; bounded northerly on Surfside Avenue, easterly by other land of the grantor, south- erly by tract one hereinbefore conveyed and easterly partly by land of the Grey Realty Corporation and westerly partly by roadsides streets or however otherwise bounded, Meaning and intending to convey the easterly one- half of parcels conveyed to this grantor by deed dated September 15, 1934 deed dated September, 1935 and recorded in Land Evidence Records of said Charlestown. I, Arthur G. Williams, husband of the grantor, release to said grantee all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaiddescribed premises WITNESS our hands this 11th day of October, 1935. ELIZABETH D. WILLIAMS (SEAL) ARTHUR G. WILLIAMS (SEAL) (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50c) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) ) County of Washington ) In Me Westerly on the 11th day of October, 1935 before me personally appeared Arthur G. Williams and Elizabeth D. Williams, husband and wife, 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. HOWARD E. THORP Notary Public (Seal) Received for record October 15th, A. D. 1935 at 4:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by Town Clerk.

The page as recorded

No page image on Zara for this instrument (the portal holds it: book 26 page 198).

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