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I, MARGARET TINKHAM, of the Town of Gloucester, County of Providence, State of Rhode Island, widow of the late Ernest W. Tinkham, deceased, for consideration paid, grant to THURMAN F. ELDRIDGE and ELIZABETH MAUD ELDRIDGE, husband and wife, both of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
A certain lot or parcel of land, with all buildings and improvements thereon, and located in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
FIRST TRACT. Beginning at the southwest corner of the tract hereby conveyed, and at the southeast corner of land formerly of William and Charles Wilson, on the highway leading from Quonochontouch bank, thence running northerly westerly and westward along the line of said Wilson land one hundred (100) feet, thence northerly and easterly forty (40) feet, thence southerly one hundred (100) feet, and easterly along the first or west line of the tract hereby conveyed, thence westerly along the line of the tract hereby conveyed, thence bounded on the south by the highway forty (40) feet to the place of beginning.
SECOND TRACT. Beginning at the southwest corner of this tract and at the northeast corner of the first tract above described, thence running north-easterly bounded westerly by land formerly of William and Charles Wilson and easterly land formerly of D. F. and C. H. Babcock and of Jennie L. Fidler to the northeast corner of said tract, thence southerly on said break, thence bounded along the old beach forty (40) feet, thence southerly on land formerly of Robert Babcock and others, thence westerly forty (40) feet to the first tract hereby conveyed, either of the west line of the first tract bounded or described, however otherwise called or described forty (40) feet to the place of beginning, with all the buildings and improvements thereon standing, or that may be built or erected in the future on said premises.
The purpose of this deed is to release my dower interest in the above-described premises which were conveyed by my late husband, Ernest W. Tinkham, to said Thurman F. Eldridge and Elizabeth Maud Eldridge by deed dated April 24, 1934, and said deed is recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Charlestown in Book 25 at Page 448 of the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown.
The consideration of this deed is such that no federal revenue stamps are required.
WITNESS my hand this 26th. day of April, 1946.
MARGARET TINKHAM
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
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In Gloucester on the 26th. day of April, 1946 before me personally appeared Margaret Tinkham to me known and by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed.
GERTRUDE H. COLE (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public.
Received for record April 29th A. D. 1946 at 10:30 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk
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