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8/20/1938 · DEED · book 27 page 394 doc 177@27/394

From KENYON FRED H life, KENYON MAUDE B
To KING CHARLES life, KING MARIE LEA
Premises two and one-half (2 1/2) acres · Tract bounded by State Highway, Charlestown, Ninigret River Junction
Index description SEE DOC

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1938 · DEED · GARDINER EDNA M; GARDINER WILLIAM J → KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 271
◀ 1938 · DEED · KENYON FRED H; KENYON MAUDE B → KENYON MAUDE B; KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 322
◀ 1938 · DEED · KING CHARLES; KING MARIE LEA → KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 393
◀ 1938 · DEED · DYSON CHARLES H; DYSON HAZEL H → KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 393
◀ 1935 · DEED · TUCKER MILLARD F → POTTER MYRA; KENYON FRED H; KENYON MAUDE B; POTTER HAROLD · book 26 p 49
◀ 1926 · DEED · BURDICK MARION G; BURDICK EDWARD E → KENYON FRED H; KENYON MAUDE B · book 22 p 357
◀ 1910 · DEED · KENYON FRANK I; KENYON LOUISE C → KENYON FRED H · book 16 p 430
◀ 1910 · DEED · KENYON REBA V BY GUARDIAN → KENYON FRED H · book 16 p 439

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1938 · DEED · KING CHARLES; KING MARIE LEA → KENYON FRED H · book 27 p 393
▶ 1940 · DEED · KING CHARLES; KING MARIE LEA → KENYON FRED H; KENYON MAUDE B · book 28 p 248
▶ 1950 · DEED · KING CHARLES; KING MARIE LEA → WOODWARD MERILYN F; WOODWARD LEWIS E JR · book 32 p 101

The instrument's own words

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394 of said Horace A. Holman and Alice M. Holman to these Grantors, dated August 6th, 1938 and recorded with the Records of Land Evidence, in said Charlestown, in Book 27 at page 371. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, with all rights, privileges and appurtenances therunto appertaining, unto and to the use of his the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever. And we the aforementioned Grantors for ourselves and our for their heirs, executors,and administrators, do covenant with the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns, that we will warrant and defend the aforesaid premises until the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through, or under us. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18th day of August in the year of our lord One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight (1938). Signed and Sealed in the presence of) Linton L. Brown ) CHARLES H. DYSON (SEAL) ) HAZEL N. DYSON (SEAL) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, County of Washington In Charlestown on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1938 before me personally appeared the above named Grantors Charles H. Dyson and wife, Hazel N. Dyson to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instru- ment, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record August 20th, A. D. 1938 at 3:25 O'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS, that I, Fred H. KENYON, of the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of the sum of Ten (10) Dollars, to be paid by CHARLES King and wife, MARIE LAX KING, of said Town and State, hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantee, as joint tenants and not tenants in common, their and their heirs and assigns forever: That tract of land situate, contained in said Charlestown, containing by estimation two and one-half (2 1/2) acres of land, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a concrete bound set in the ground on the northerly side of the State Highway leading from the Village of Charlestown to the Village of Wood River River Junction, said concrete bound being twelve hundred ninety-eight (1298) feet, northeast from a permanent bound set at the southeasterly corner of land conveyed by deed of date May 1st, 1923 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Charlestown in Book 27 at page 353, from said concrete bound running south thirty degrees 10' west for a distance of one hundred twenty-four (124) feet, bounded by this Grantor's land; thence westward and then northerly for a distance of one hundred eighty (180) feet, more or less, to a concrete bound set in the line of a stone wall in the southeasterly corner of said King's land; thence running easterly, bounding northerly on other lands of this Grantee one hundred seventy-three (173) feet; then north east forty degrees 10' to another concrete bound set in the southerly line of said other land of this Grantee; thence northerly bounding said concrete bound in the line of this Grantor and in a line parallel with and one hundred twenty-five (125) feet easterly from the first mentioned concrete bound, one hundred twenty-four (124) feet northerly on the northerly side of said State Highway; thence westerly bounding southerly on said Highway one hundred twenty-four (124) feet to a concrete bound set in the ground, southerly on the northerly side of said State Highway; thence westerly bounding southerly on said Highway one hundred twenty-four (124) feet to a concrete bound set in the ground, beginning. Reference is hereby made to a plat showing a portion of said tract entitled "Plat of a certain piece of land in C. Kenyon's land by F. P. Barber 1938," which plat is filed with the Records of Land Evidence in said Charlestown in Book 27 at page 272.
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395 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantees, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assigns forever. And I the said Grantor, do hereby for myself and for my heirs, executors, and adminis- trators, covenant with said Grantees and their heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free from all incumbrances that I have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as fore- said; that the said Grantees and their heirs and assigns, shall by these presents at all times hereafter peacefully and quietly enjoy and have the said premises, and that, I the said Grantor will, and my heirs, executors and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantees and their heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all per- sons. And for the consideration aforesaid I, Maude B. Kenyon, wife of said Fred H. Kenyon, do hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said Grantees and their heirs and assigns, forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 15th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight (1938). Executed in the presence of } Linton L. Brown } FRED H. KENYON (SEAL) MAUDE B. KENYON (SEAL) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 15th day of August, A. D. 1938 before me personally appeared the above named grantors Fred H. Kenyon and Maude B. Kenyon, his wife, both of them to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record August 20th, A. D. 1938 at 3:30 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

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