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We GAGE B. ELLIS and ELIZABETH K. ELLIS, husband and wife, both of Middletown Town-
ship, Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania, as Joint Tenants, for consideration paid, grant
to GEORGE W. ZABEL and MARGARET B. ZABEL, husband and wife, both of the City of Hartford, County
of Hartford and State of Connecticut, as Joint Tenants, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY
COVENANTS.
That certain tract or parcel of land with all buildings and improvements thereon
and including the furnishings therein, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County
of Washington and State of Rhode Island, described and bounded as follows:—
Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Quonochontaug East Beach Road at the
northeasterly corner of a lot conveyed to Asa S. Briggs by two deeds; thence running southerly
of a stone wall; thence running northerly 3 degrees 25', ninety eight feet along said
stone wall, bounding said lot and the lot of Edward H. Hoxsie, formerly of the estate
or formerly of Benjamin P. Moulton; thence running northerly 87 degrees, 30' east
along said fence and wall, bounding said lot and the lot of Edward H. Hoxsie, 111 feet,
more or less, to a corner of a stone wall; thence running northerly 86 degrees, 30' east
along said stone wall, bounding said lot and the lot of Edward H. Hoxsie, 111 feet,
northerly on said Benjamin P. Moulton land; thence running in a general southerly
direction along said stone wall, bounding said lot and the lot of Edward H. Hoxsie,
87 degrees 25' west, southerly bounded on said northerly division P. Moulton land 688 feet,
more or less, to said point on East Beach Road at the starting point.
Together with all the rights the within grantors have in and to said Charlestown
Salt Pond which are appurtenant to the above described premises.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed to these grantors by
Jonas I. Peckham, Jr. and Bertha B. Peckham by two deeds: the first dated July
30th, 1931 and recorded in the land evidence records of said town in Book 24, page
301, and recorded in Book 24 at Page 479; the second deed was dated April 10th, 1934 and recorded
in the land evidence records of said town in Book 26, page 110 and page 160.
Reference to said deeds and the records thereof being hereby made and and the same
are made a part hereof.
This conveyance is subject to a lease dated April 10th, 1944 and expiring July
10th, 1944, which is hereby assigned to the purchaser.
WITNESS our hands this 28th day of April 1944.
GAGE B. ELLIS
ELIZABETH K. ELLIS
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $14.55)
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
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County of Philadelphia}
In Philadelphia, Penn. on the 28th day of April, 1944 before me personally appeared
Gage B. Ellis and Elizabeth K. Ellis, 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 eve-
cuted, to be their free act and deed.
IRABEL M. Lowry (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Commission expires Jan. 14, 1945.
IN THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
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County of Philadelphia,}
I, JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county, which are
Courts of Record having a common seal, being the officer authorized by the Laws of the State of
Pennsylvania to make the following Certificate, acting by my Principal Deputy, Meredith Hanna, or
my Deputy Deputy, John G. Hoerr, certifying that the foregoing instrument of conveyance has been
scribed to the certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written,
was time and date and signed and sealed by the parties, and that the said Notary Public, resi-
ding in the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations
and to take acknowledgments in and for the said County, has made the acknowledgment as instrum-
ments to be recorded in said State of Pennsylvania and, to all whose acts, such full and
faith and credit is usually given to the acts of Notaries Public in said State, elsewhere; and that I am
well acquainted with the handwriting of the said NOTARY PUBLIC and certify that the signature
thereto is genuine, and a further certify that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged
in conformity with the laws of said State.
The impression of the seal of the Notary Public is not returned 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 28th day of April in the Lord one of your Lord one the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four (1944).
JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary
by John J. Hoerr, Second Deputy Prothonotary
Durante Absentia, Secundum Legem.
Received for record May 10th, A. D. 1944 at 3:00 o'clock, P. M., and recorded by
Town Clerk