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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, JOHN E. WOODMANSEE, JR. and VIRGINIA R. WOODMANSEE, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to JAMES W. DOWNS and ANNA DOWNS, husband and wife, both of said Town, County and State, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain tract or parcel of land, situated near the Village of Carolina, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of the State Highway at the southeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed and at the northeasterly corner of land of Ernest G. B. Champion and wife (here meaning the land of said Champion) and southerly by said Champion land, a distance of Your Hundred (400) feet (to a point); thence running northerly, and then easterly, a distance of Four Hundred (400) feet (distant five and parallel) to said State Highway, a distance of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet (to a point); thence running at right angles and running easterly a distance of Four Hundred (400) feet, to the westerly boundary of said state Highway; thence running southerly bounded easterly by the State Highway, a distance of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet to the point and place of beginning, or however otherwise the same or any part thereof be described; Now bordering northerly by land of Ernest G. B. Champion et ux; westerly and northerly by other land of the Grantors herein; easterly by said State Highway.
Being a portion of the premises conveyed by deed of Caleb B. Kenyon to these Grantors, dated November 9th, 1944 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 29, Page 309.
And for the consideration aforesaid, we, John E. Woodmansee, Jr. and Virginia R. Woodmansee, husband and wife, do hereby release to said Grantees, all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, in and to said Premises.
WITNESS our hands this 25th day of March, 1953.
JOHN E. WOODMANSEE, JR.
VIRGINIA R. WOODMANSEE
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, 55¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington }
In Charlestown, on the 25th day of March, 1953, before me personally appeared John E. Woodmansee, Jr. and Virginia R. Woodmansee, husband and wife, both to me known and by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public.
Received for record March 28th, A. D. 1953 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded
by [signature] Town Clerk
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