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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That We, GEORGE H. PROSSER, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, and RUFUS K. PROSSER, of the City and State of New York, hereinafter called the Grantors, in consideration of ten Dollars ($10.00) to be paid to LAURA W. PROSSER, of Chicoppee, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantee and her heirs and assigns forever our two-thirds undivided interest in and to:
That certain tract of parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point at the southeasterly corner of the property herein before described, being at the southeasterly corner of said land, more or less, formerly or formerly of Thomas L. Arnold; thence running in a general westerly direction and bounded on the southern boundary by the Atlantic ocean, four hundred (400) feet to a corner, thence turning north eighty-one degrees west, general westerly northerly, five hundred eighteen and one half (518 1/2) feet, to a line between two stone bounds, which point is bounded here in stone ninety-one (91) feet from the easterly boundary of said stone bounds; thence turning an interior angle of eighty-one degrees thirty-one minutes, north eighty-one degrees west, one hundred (100) feet (See pl 31B), thence turning in a straight line five hundred fifty (550) feet, more or less to Charlestown road; thence running along said Charlestown road, said Charlestown road being in a easterly and a southerly direction to now nor easterly of the heirs of Thomas L. Arnold; thence running in a southerly direction, bounded on the easterly by said land, now or formerly of the heirs of Thomas L. Arnold six hundred seventy-seven (677) feet, more or less, to a line between two stone bounds; thence running in a southerly direction to the beginning of said trait land containing nine and one-tenths (9.1) acres.
And however bounded and described, being the easterly third in the Ocean beach property, also known as "Ocean View" by Isaac T. Prosser, deceased, and being one of the three parts agreed by agreement between Hegel H. Prosser, George H. Prosser and Rufus K. Prosser, the sole heirs at law of the said Isaac T. Prosser.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the rights, privileges and appurtentenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantee, and her heirs and assigns, forever.
And we, the said Grantors, do hereby for ourselves and for our heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said Grantee and her heirs and assigns, that we will warrant and defend the aforesaid described premises unto the said Grantee and her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through or under us.
And for the consideration aforesaid, we, the said GEORGE H. PROSSER and RUFUS K. PROSSER, respectively covenant that we are unmarried.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 31st day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
Executed in the presence of:
Harry P. Blank
Harry P. Blank
GEORGE H. PROSSER (SEAL)
RUFUS K. PROSSER (SEAL)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Charlestown, on the 31st day of January, A. D. 1941, before me personally appeared the above named grantors, GEORGE H. PROSSER and RUFUS K. PROSSER, 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.
EDWARD C. PEPPER
Notary Public.
Received for record February 15th, A. D. 1941 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk
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