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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, JAMES A. BURDICK, widower, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to WALTER F. KEENAN and SYLVIA KEENAN, husband and wife, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, with rights of survivorship, both of the Town of Westerly, said County and State
That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
A certain tract or parcel of land situated at East Beach, so-called, in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the tract hereby conveyed and at the northwesterly corner of other land of Guentees; thence northerly, bounded westerly by Powwget Avenue, to the shore of Charlestown Pond; thence easterly, bounded northerly by said Pond, a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to Central Avenue; thence southerly, bounded easterly by Central Avenue, 50 feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of other land of said other of Grantees; thence westerly, bounded southerly by Guentees' land a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described.
Meaning and intending to convey Lot Number 72 as shown on that plan or plat entitled, "Plat of Land in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., Owned by James Alfred Burdick. Surveyed and Platted August, 1933, by Leon L. Holland, Civil Engineer." Reference to said plat which is on file in the Town Clerk's Office of said Charlestown, is hereby made and made the same made a part hereof for a more complete description of the hereby conveyed premises.
The consideration of this deed is less than $100.
WITNESS my hand this 29th day of August, 1936.
JAMES A. BURDICK.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 29th day of August 1936 before me personally appeared James A. Burdick to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed, to be his free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public.
Received for record August 29th, A. D. 1936 at 6:15 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk.