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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that We, Norman C. Church of the City of Norwich,
State of Connecticut, and Charles C. Church, of the City of Hartford and said State of Connec-
ticut in consideration of the sum of Four Hundred Fifty ($450.00) Dollars to us paid by Annie
M. Hoxsie the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever
QUITCLAIM unto the said Annie M. Hoxsie, her heirs and assigns forever, all the right, title,
interest, property, place, claim and demand which we now have, or of right ought to have, or claim, in
and to
a certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown with the buildings
thereon, containing by estimation five acres more or less bounded as
follows, on the North by land of the heirs of Jacob Perry, on the East
and South by the highway and on the West by land of Jemima Breeny, or
however otherwise bounded.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, with all rights, privileges and appurtenances apper-
taining, unto, under and to the use of the said Annie M. Hoxsie, her heirs and assigns forever.
And we the aforementioned Norman C. Church and Charles C. Church for ourselves and for
our heirs, executors, and administrators, do covenant with the said Annie M. Hoxsie, her heirs
and assigns, that we will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises unto the said Annie
M. Hoxsie, her heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming by, through, or under
Irene S. Church and Vera N. Church wives of the said Norman C. Church and Charles
C. Church in consideration of the sum paid as aforesaid, do hereby release and forever quitclaim
unto the said Annie M. Hoxsie, her heirs and assigns, all our right of dower in and to the
aforedescribed premises.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this eighth day of
January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.
Signed and Sealed in the presence of)
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Chas. B. Lucan
Irene d. Brickley
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NORMAN C. CHURCH
IRENE S. CHURCH
CHARLES C. CHURCH
VERA N. CHURCH
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50¢)
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
County of New London
In Norwich on the eighth day of Jan. A. D. 1938 before me personally appeared Norman
C. Church, Irene S. Church, Charles C. Church, Vera N. Church 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.
CHARLES B. LUCAS, Notary Public
My Commission Expires Jan. 31, 1941
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, SS.
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
(SEAL)
I, JOHN M. VALKES, County Clerk and Clerk of the Superior
Court within and for said County, said Court being a Court
of record, do hereby Certify, that Charles B. Lucas, of Norwich, Connecticut is
a NOTARY PUBLIC
within and for residing in said County, duly commissioned
and sworn, having full power authority and competency by the laws of this State to take acknowledgment
of deeds or conveyances for lands, tenements and other hereditaments, and to certify the same
to the same also administrator, oaths, to take affidavits and depositions out of Court and to give
certificates thereof; that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and
attestations as the same are by him done until February 1, 1941.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at Norwich, in
said County and State on this 14th day of January, 1938.
JOHN M. VALKES, Clerk.
Received for record January 22, A. D. 1938 at 4:30 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
(signature)
Town Clerk