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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that WE, CLARA A. SIMCOX and JAMES J. SIMCOX, her husband and KATHERINE F. STRATEN, all of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, State of California, hereinafter called the Grantors., for and in consideration of the sum of TEN ($10.00) Dollars to be paid by ARTHUR H. MAGER, of the Town of North Providence, County of Providence, State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do Give grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, in fee simple
That certain tract or parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Town of Charlestown, State of Rhode Island filed under the described and referenced as follows:
Beginning at the southeasterly corner of said tract, at a stake and stones on the beach land bank by and owner fortherly of Rob R. Wilcox; thence easterly southerly bounding westerly on beach land bank, one hundred fifty (150) feet to a stake and stones on the beach land bank, in the southerly line of a street or way; thence easterly along said street or way, fifty (50) feet, to a stake and stones at the northeasterly corner of a tract of land property of Beatrice G. Halloran; thence southerly bounding easterly on said Halloran land, two hundred fifty (250) feet to a stake and stones on the beach land bank, thence northerly bounding westerly on said Wilcox land to the start of the measuring and starting point.
Also a strip of marsh land, in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the northerly line of a street or way, at the southeasterly corner of marsh land bank by and owner fortherly of Rob R. Wilcox; thence westerly bounding easterly on said marsh land bank, twenty (20) feet to a stake and land bank northerly of Alice J. Cullane et al.; thence northerly on a straight line parallel with said marsh land bank, one hundred twenty (120) feet northerly on said Cullane land, one hundred seventy-one (171) feet to Charlestown Pond (and as recorded in book 1595) thence northerly bounding westerly on the Pond (as said Pond existed in 1935) thence northerly under the described and referenced as follows: one hundred ninety-nine (199) feet to said street or way at the starting point.
Together with all riparian and littoral rights now appurtenant to said premises.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of said Grantee, and his heirs and assigns forever, in fee simple.
AND we the said Grantors do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, assigns and administrators, covenant with the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns that we are lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free from all incumbrances that we have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in the manner as aforesaid; that the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises, and that we the said Grantors with, our heirs, executors and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
AND for THE CONSIDERATION aforementioned, I the said KATHERINE F. STRATEN, do hereby covenant that I am unmarried; and I, JAMES J. SIMCOX, husband of said Clara A. Simcox, do hereby release all my right of Courtesy, and all other right, title and interest, statutory or otherwise, in and to the said granted premises unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns, forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 11th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.
Signed and sealed in presence of)
M. A. Rolyen ) CLARA A. SIMCOX (L. S.)
JAMES J. SIMCOX (L. S.)
KATHERINE F. STRATEN (L. S.)
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