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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, Harry Peckham of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and Rachel A. Peckham, his wife, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm 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 adjacent to and lying easterly from the lot numbered 26 on the subdivided map of Indian Cedar Swamp, in the said County of Washington, prepared in or about the year 1880 by M. S. Greene, which said map, designated as INDIAN RESERVATION CEDAR SWAMP, is on file in the Town 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 marked by the westerly end of an old stone wall which forms the southern boundary of that certain property known as George Peckham's 30 Lot, which said corner marks also the southeast corner of the lot numbered 25 on said map and the northeast corner of the lot numbered 26 on said map; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of said lot more or less 28, 640 feet more or less to a point marked by a post in the middle of Cockumquak Brook; thence easterly along the varying course of the center line of said brook to a point in the middle of said brook 100 feet easterly in a straight line from the post in said brook first above mentioned; thence northerly to a point in the center of the old stone wall aforesaid which said point lies easterly 75 feet from the western end of said old stone wall; thence westerly along said old stone wall to the point of or place of beginning; said parcel or tract of land comprising approximately 1.27 acre, be the said area more or less.
And for the consideration aforesaid, I Rachel A. Peckham, wife of said Harry 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 here set our hands and seals this 15th day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
In presence of
W. Russell Dower
as to R. A. P.
HARRY A. PECKHAM
RACHEL A. PECKHAM
State of Connecticut}
County of Hartford {
In the said County on this 15 day of January, A. D. 1941, before me personally appeared Harry Peckham to me known and known by me to be the party who executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by his executed, to be his free act and deed.
BEN CONN (Notarial Seal)
i Notary Public in and for the said
County of Hartford
State of Rhode Island}
County of Washington }
In the said county of Washington on this 16th day of January, A. D. 1941, before me personally appeared Rachel A. Peckham, to me known and known by me to be one of the parties who executed the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed.
W. RUSSELL DOWER (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
My Commission expires June 30, 1941.
Received for record January 24th, A. D. 1941 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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