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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, MAY S. PATTERSON, of 741 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, for consideration paid, grant to CHARLES E. JOHNSON and MARY B. JOHNSON, husband and wife, and to, and to the survivor of them and unto the heirs and assigns of said survivor, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, both of Charlestown, Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS,
That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, with quit claim described as follows:
A certain tract of land, containing one-quarter (1/4) acre, more or less, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Main Rd., now Formerly st. Corelli St. Babcock ten ft. south of the southwest corner thereof; thence westerly at right angles with said line fifty (50) feet; thence southerly whence westerly at right angles with said line fifty (50) feet; thence northerly parallel with said line fifty (50) Babcock land and five fifty-four (54) feet thereafter ten hundred eighteen (218) feet to the Babcock estate easterly fifty (50) feet; thence southerly ten hundred eighteen (218) feet (218 feet) to the place of beginning; Bounded on the north by Main Rd., northerly by Land of Corelli or formerly of Grantes Estates and easterly by Main Rd., or formerly of Corelli St. Babcock's tractor, reserving to the grantees, their heirs and assigns, a convenient right of way across land of Grantes to the highway.
Meaning and intending to convey and transfer the same premises conveyed by deed of these Grantees to Title in full as appears in the recording date of October 7th 1926 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, Town of Charlestown in Book 20, Page 42 and the premises conveyed by deed and the record copy thereof being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof herefor for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed.
I hereby covenant that I am unmarried.
The consideration of this deed is less than $100.00.
WITNESS my hand this Fifth day of Nov. 1942.
MAY S. PATTERSON
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
County of Philadelphia} ss.
In Philadelphia on the Fifth day of November, 1942 before me personally appeared May S. Patterson, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing Instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her execution, to be her free act and deed.
May S. Patterson
ERNEST T. WHITE (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Com Exp Apr 23-1943
IN THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
County of Philadelphia, ss. )
I, JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county, which county am County of Records having a common seal and being authorized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania to make a common seal and being Certificate, acting by my Principal Deputy, Meredith Name, or my Second Deputy, John J. Hoerr, DO CERTIFY, That ERNEST T. WHITE, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate aforesaid, is a Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn, was, at the time of the such acknowledgment a NOTARY PUBLIC for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, resident in the County of Philadelphia, and that his commission was in full force and effect, and that the acts and acknowledgments were and proofs of Deeds for Conveyances for land, tenements and hereditaments to be and were acknowledged said State of Pennsylvania, and all those acts, such as full, fair and faithful proofs are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as in any other place, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Notary Public and verify the believ signature to be genuine and that the foregoing instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
The impression of the Seal of the Notary Public is not required by law to be filed in this office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 10th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-two (1942)
(SEAL OF COURT)
JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary
by JOHN J. HOERR,
Second Deputy Prothonotary
Durante Absentia, Secundum Legem.
Received for record May 14th, A. D. 1943 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk