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We GAGE B. ELLIS and ELIZABETH K. ELLIS, husband and wife, both of Middletown Township, Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania, as Joint Tenants, for consideration paid, grant to GEORGE W. ZABEL and MARGARET B. ZABEL, husband and wife, both of the City of Hartford, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, as Joint Tenants, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS.
That certain tract or parcel of land with all buildings and improvements thereon including and the furnishings therein, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, housed and described as follows:—
Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Quonocutunk East Beach Road at the northeasterly corner of a lot conveyed to George W. P. Moulton; thence running southeasterly 39 degrees west of a stone wall; thence running northerly 3 degrees west, 291 feet along said stone wall, bounding said farm and lot of George W. P. Moulton; thence running southeasterly, or formerly of Benjamin P. Moulton; thence running northerly 87 degrees, 20 feet east along said fence and stone wall; thence running southeasterly 15 degrees west, 110 feet, more or less, along said fence and a corner of a stone wall; thence running northeasterly 86 degrees, 30 feet east along said fence and stone wall; thence running southeasterly 15 degrees west, 110 feet, northerly by said Benjamin P. Moulton land; thence running in a general southerly direction along said stone wall, 110 feet, more or less, to a corner of a stone wall; thence running 87 degrees 25 degrees west, southerly bounded on said variety P. Moulton land 688 feet, more or less, to said Quonocutunk East Beach Road at the starting point.
Together with all the rights the within grantors have in and to said Charlestown Salt Pond which are appurtenant to the above described premises.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed to these grantors by Jonah P. Peckham, Jr. and Bertha B. Peckham by two deeds: the first dated July 30th, 1931 and recorded in the land evidence records of said town in Book 24 page 479; the second deed was dated April 10th, 1934 and recorded in the land evidence records of said town in Book 27 page 100. All references to said deeds and the records thereof being hereby made and made the same are part of this deed.
This conveyance is subject to a lease dated April 10th, 1944 and expiring July 10th, 1944, which is hereby assigned to the purchaser.
WITNESS our hands this 28th day of April 1944.
GAGE B. ELLIS
ELIZABETH K. ELLIS
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $14.55)
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
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County of Philadelphia}
In Philadelphia, Penna. on the 28th day of April, 1944 before me personally appeared Gage B. Ellis and Elizabeth K. Ellis, husband and wife, to me known and known 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.
IRABEL L. Lowry (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Commission expires Jan. 14, 1945.
IN THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
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County of Philadelphia,}
I, JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county, which are Courts of Record having a common seal, being the officer authorized by the Law of the State of Pennsylvania to make the following Certificate, acting by my Principal Deputy, Meredith Hanna, or my Deputy Deputy, John L. Cartwright, do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument was subscribed to the certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and written thereon, was signed time and date and the seal of the Notary Public was affixed thereto, the Notary, residing in the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations and take acknowledgments in and for the State of Pennsylvania, as appears from the instruments to be recorded in said State of Pennsylvania and, to all whose acts, such full and faith and credit are and ought to be given under their seal, signature as signature as elsewhere; and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said NOTARY PUBLIC and recognize the above to be her signature and signature, and a further certify that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of said State.
The impression of the seal of the Notary Public is not returned 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 28th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty four (1944).
JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary
by John J. Hoerr, Second Deputy Prothonotary
Durante Absentia, Secundum Legem.
Received for record May 10th, A. D. 1944 at 3:00 o'clock, P. M., and recorded by
[Seal] Town Clerk
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