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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, MAY S. PATTERSON, of 741 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES E. JOHNSON and MARY B. JOHNSON, husband and wife, and to the survivors of them and unto the heirs and assigns of said survivor, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, both of Charlestown, Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS,
That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, isang and described as follows:
A certain tract of land, containing one-quarter (1) acre, more or less, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Main Rd., now Formerly st. Orens St. Babcock ten ft. south of the southwest corner thereof; thence westerly at right angles with said line fifty (50) feet; thence northerly parallel with said line fifty (50) feet; thence land and five fifty-four (54) feet thence northerly parallel with said line two hundred eighteen (218) feet; thence easterly fifty (50) feet; thence southerly two hundred eighteen (218) feet (or 218 feet to the place of beginning); Bounded on the west by land of [?] northerly by land of [?] formerly of Gen. Thrasher and easterly on Grant's by land of northerly or formerly of Gen. Thrasher's Trustees and southerly by their heirs and assigns, including a convenient right of way across land of Grantenees to the highway.
Meaning and intending to convey and transfer the same premises conveyed by deed of these Grantors to Title in said tract as appears in the recording date of October 7th 1926 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, Town of Charlestown in Book 20, Page 42 Grantor being the same as the Record copy of the aforementioned being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof herefor for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed.
I hereby covenant that I am unmarried.
The consideration of this deed is less than $100.00.
WITNESS my hand this Fifth day of Nov. 1942.
MAY S. PATTERSON
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
County of Philadelphia} ss.
In Philadelphia on the Fifth day of November, 1942 before me personally appeared May S. Patterson, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing Instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her execution, to be her free act and deed.
May S. Patterson
ERNEST T. WHITE (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Com Exp Apr 23-1943
IN THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
County of Philadelphia, ss. )
I, JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county, which are Courts of Record having a common law jurisdiction authorized to administer the probate of Pennsylvania to make the following Certifying, acting by my First Deputy, Meredith Name, or my Second Deputy, John J. Hoerr, DO CERTIFY, That ERNEST T. WHITE, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate aforesaid, is a Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn, was, at the time of the such acknowledgment a NOTARY PUBLIC for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, resident in the County of Philadelphia, and is authorized to take and certify acknowledgments and to take acknowledgments and proofs of Deeds for Conveyances for land, tenements and hereditaments to be void and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as in any other place, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as in any other place, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Notary Public and verify the believ signature to be genuine and that the foregoing instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
The impression of the Seal of the Notary Public is not required by law to be filed in this office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 10th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-two (1942)
(SEAL OF COURT)
JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary
by JOHN J. HOERR
Second Deputy Prothonotary
Durante Absentia, Secundum Legem.
Received for record May 14th, A. D. 1943 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk
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