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We, CHARLES CORNELL and LENA B. CORNELL, husband and wife, both of the Town of Richmond, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to ELLERY F. BARBER and BERTHA E. BARBER, husband and wife, both of the Town of Hopkinton, said County and State, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
That certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, on "Hill Pasture," so called, and is a portion of Lots No. 20 and No. 21 as shown and delineated on "Plat of house lots on Hill Pasture in Charlestown, Rhode Island, belonging to Edward B. Burdick, scale 50 feet to an Inch October, 1923, Earl C. Whale, surveyor;" said plat being on file in the Office of the Town Clerk said Town of Charlestown. Said premises are bounded as follows:
Beginning at the Southwest corner of this tract and at the Northwest corner of land formerly of Julia A. Jordan; thence Northerly along the west line of said lot a distance of Fifty (50) feet; thence turning and running Easterly One hundred (100) feet; thence turning and running Southerly, a distance of Fifty (50) feet, to the Northeasterly corner of premises formerly of said Julia A. Jordan; thence westerly, bounded southerly by said Jordan land to the point and place of beginning.
Being the same premises conveyed to these Grantors by deed from Millard F. Tucker; said deed bearing date of April 22, 1931 and recorded in Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 24 at Page 394; reference to said deed and the records thereof being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof.
WITNESS our hands this 23rd day of May 1945.
CHARLES E. CORNELL
LENA B. CORNELL
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $3.20)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington )
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In Charlestown on the 23rd day of May, 1945 before me personally appeared Charles Cornell and Lena B. Cornell, husband and wife, 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 (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Received for record June 15th, A. D. 1945 at 11:00 o'clock, A. M., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk