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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That for One Dollar ($1.00) and other valuable consideration to us in hand paid by Harold C. Sands of the Town of Kingston, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we George S. Peckham, of the Town of Charlestown in the said County and State, and Theresa M. Peckham, his wife, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto said Harold C. Sands, his heirs and assigns forever, all our, right, title, and interest in and to that certain parcel or tract of land adjoining and bordering upon the land of the said Harold C. Sands, in the said Town of Charlestown, Swamp, in the said County of Washington, in prepared in or about the year 1880 by M. S. Greene, which said parcel of land is more or less as described in a deed on file in the Town and County Clerk's Office in the Town of Charlestown, in the said County of Washington, and which said parcel or tract of land is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a corner to the marked westerly by the eastern end of an old stone wall which forms the southern boundary of that certain property known as George Peckham's 30 Acre Lot, which said lot is further described in a deed on file in the Town and County Clerk's Office in said Town and County, along the eastern boundary of said lot numbered 26, 640 feet more or less to a point marked by a post; thence along the said boundary of said lot numbered 26, 150 feet more or less to a point, the center line of said brick to a post in the middle of said brick about 150 feet easterly in a straight line from said post in brick about first mentioned; thence northerly to a point in the center line of the old stone wall which forms the southern boundary of said "30 Acre Lot" 72 feet from the end of old stone wall; thence westerly along said stone wall to said old stone wall to the point or place of beginning; the said parcel of land comprising approximately 1.27 acre, be the same or more or less.
And for the consideration aforesaid, I, Theresa M. Peckham, wife of said George S. Peckham, do hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 7th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
GEORGE S. PECKHAM (SEAL)
THERESA M. PECKHAM (SEAL)
In presence of:
LINTON L. BROWN
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON )
In the said County on this 7th day of January, A. D. 1941, before me personally appeared George S. Peckham and Theresa M. Peckham, his wife, to me known and by me to be the parties who executed the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN (Notarial Seal)
A Notary Public in and for the said County.
Received for record January 8th, A. D. 1941 at 9 o'clock a.m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That for One Dollar ($1.00) and other valuable consideration to us in hand paid by Harold C. Sands of the Town of Kingston, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we George S. Peckham, of the Town of Charlestown in the said County and State, and Theresa M. Peckham, his wife, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto said Harold C. Sands, his heirs and assigns forever, all our, right, title, and interest in and to that certain parcel or tract of land adjoining and bordering upon the land of the said Harold C. Sands, in the said Town of Charlestown, Cedar Swamp, in the said County, prepared in or about the year 1880 by M. S. Greene, which said parcel of land is more or less as described in a deed on file in the Town and County Clerk's Office in the Town of Charlestown, and which said parcel or tract of land is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the middle point of the western boundary of those certain lands of grantor more or less adjoining on the southern boundary of that certain property known as George Peckham's 30 Acre Lot (be the area of said lot more or less the area of said "30 Acre Lot" adjoining on the southern boundary of that certain property known as said "30 Acre Lot" beginning on said stone wall at the point of the junction of two lines, each 470 feet in length, forming an angle of 90 degrees, the shorter of which lines being the southern boundary of said "30 Acre Lot" aforesaid) thence in a southerly direction along said easterly boundary of said lot numbered 26, 640 feet more or less to a point marked by a post, said point being the center line of said brick to a post in the middle of said brick about 150 feet (or 75 feet (said old stone wall marking the southern boundary of the aforesaid "30 Acre Lot" as further described in a deed on file in the Town and County Clerk's Office in said Town and County) but or place of beginning; said parcel or tract of land as hereby conveyed comprising approximately fourteen acres, be the area the same or more or less.
And for the consideration aforesaid, I, Theresa M. Peckham, wife of said George S. Peckham, do hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereto set our hands and seals this 7th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
GEORGE S. PECKHAM (SEAL)
THERESA M. PECKHAM (SEAL)
In presence of:
LINTON L. BROWN
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON )
In the said County on this 7th day of January, A. D. 1941, before me personally appeared George S. Peckham and Theresa M. Peckham his wife, to me known and by me to be the parties who executed the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN (Notarial Seal)
A Notary Public in and for the said County.
Received for record January 8th, A. D. 1941 at 9 o'clock a.m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
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