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I, HOWARD E. THORP of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to WILLIAM J. WHOLEAN and HELEN E. WHOLEAN 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.
A certain tract or parcel of land situated and being at Quonocontaug Central Beach, so called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island and bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Surfside avenue at the southeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed, said point being 15 feet distant from the northeasterly corner of lot #12 as shown and delineated on a certain plan or plat entitled, "Plan of Quonocontaug Central Beach, Charlestown, R.I." drawn by, Thorp Engine Inc., Agents, 80 feet to the inch, October, 1936, Ross & Lewis, Engrs., Westerly, Superior Court Map, and filed with the Register of Deeds in the Town Clerk's Office in said Town of Charlestown; thence running northerly there until 125 feet to a line running east 45 degrees north 100 feet along the southerly boundary line of said lot #12 to the northeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed and thence running south 45 degrees west 100 feet and thence westerly 15 feet thence turning an angle of 90 degrees and running southeasterly 125 feet to a point then running easterly 15 feet to a point and place of beginning, bounded southerly by Surfside Avenue, easterly by land that was conveyed to Synson B. Myron and his wife, northerly by lot #93 on said plat and westerly by land that was conveyed to A. Burton Bartson and wife.
It is further considered in the consideration of the purchase price it is mutually understood and agreed that no buildings of any kind or nature are to be built, erected or permanently conveyed upon the parcel of land hereby conveyed; furthermore this conveyance conveys all present rights, title and interest and is subject to all easements, reservations and covenants as are now in the line of the title. It is further convened, agreed and agreed that the grantees and their successors and assigns shall and pay to Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns, on or before the first day of June of each and every year the sum of the one Dollar and twenty-five cents (81.25) for that portion of Lot #11 hereby conveyed to be used for maintenance of the road and other portions that may be designated for public use, and in case of failure to make any payment within one year from the date upon which the same shall become due upon the premises hereby conveyed, it is agreed that it shall be lawful for the said Quonocontaug Central Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns, to sell and convey the same premises at Public Auction, first giving notice of such sale in some newspaper published in said County for three weeks and once each week for three successive weeks and become to the purchaser or purchasers at said sale.
Meaning and intending to convey and construe a portion of Lot #11; said lot #11 on said plat was conveyed to Howard E. Thorp by deed dated January 14th, 1946 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book 30 Page 637.
I, Mary E. Thorp, wife of the grantor release to said grantees, all my right of dower and all other interests in the aforesaid premises.
Witness our hands this 30th day of March 1946.
HOWARD E. THORP
MARY E. THORP
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, 55¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly on the 30th day of March 1946, before me personally appeared Howard E. Thorp and Mary E. Thorp, 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.
NELSON H. THORP
Notary Public.
Received for record May 1st, A. D. 1946 at 9:48 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
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Town Clerk