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I, Charles P. Ecclesleton, of the town of Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island land for consideration paid grant unto Ray P. Ecclesleton and Jessie A. Ecclesleton, both of said Westerly and, to the survivor of them as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, with warranty covenants, a certain lot or parcel of land lying and being in the town of Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island, townded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof at a stone post set in the groundway and in the ground with land formerly of George C. Mouthrop and by and with a roadway through said land and then northerly (39 feet) more or less and in the groundway and to an iron pipe driven into the ground; thence in the grounds north easterly direction there to a stone post set in the ground; thence in the ground at the hand of Helen Beber North westerly and with said land and roadway to a stone post set in the ground; thence to a stone post set in the ground of said Bertha D. Mouthrop, thence southerly by and with said Mouthrop land and a roadway to a stone post set in the ground; thence south westerly direction there to a stone post set in the groundway by and with said Mouthrop or however otherwise now or may be called.
Reserving however from and out of the easterly end of said described premises the right to pass and repass by and return for any and all purposes over and across a strip of land five (5) feet in width, running east westerly or in any direction, as a convenient premises for the owner of land lying easterly of said described premises and his heirs and assigns forever.
Together with a right of way five (5) feet in width over and across and other land of said grantor lying immediately east of the easterly line of the land herein and hereby conveyed, to pass and repass at any and all times and for any and all purposes, to the said grantees his heirs and assigns forever.
The five (5) feet of land herein reserved as a right of way and the five (5) feet of land herein granted to said grantees is more particularly designated and shown on a map or plan showing "Division of Lot 59 on Assessors' Plat 10 Town of Charlestown, Ray P. Ecclesleton." on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Charlestown.
Said described land and right of way is marked on said plat "to Ray P. Ecclesleton and Jessie A. Ecclesleton by deed dated May 9, 1939."
And I, Mattie D. C. Ecclesleton, wife of said Charles P. Ecclesleton hereby release my right of dower in and to said described premises.
WITNESS our hands this 9th day of May, A. D. 1939.
CHARLES P. ECCLESTON
MATTIE D. C. ECCLESTON
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly in said county on this 9th day of May A. D., 1939, before me personally appeared Charles P. Ecclesleton and Mattie D. C. Ecclesleton, to me known and known by me to be the parties described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed.
JOHN J. DUNN, [Notarial Seal]
Notary Public.
Received for record May 19th, A. D. 1939 at 4:25 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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