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I, RUTH J. BROWN, of Naugatuck, State of Connecticut, for consideration paid, grant to DONALD G. BERTCH and PHEBE L. BERTCH, both of the Town of Burrillville, County of Providence, State of Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to sever the tenancy with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain tract or parcel of Land situated at Quonocutong Beach, so called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of the Town Highway at the northeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed and at the northeasterly corner of the premises, now or formerly, of Harriet Langworthy; thence running southerly, bounded easterly by partly by said Harriet Langworthy and partly by land of Harold W. Bertch, a distance of Three Hundred Eighty Eight (388) feet, more or less, to the atlantic Ocean, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, to the south side of Atlantic Ocean, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, westerly, bounded southerly by said Atlantic Ocean, to the southwesterly corner of conveyed premises and to the southwesterly corner of the premises of Charles R. Bertch; thence running northerly, bounded westerly by said Charles R. Bertch, a distance of Three Hundred Eighty Eight (388) feet, more or less, to said Town Highway, thence running easterly, bounded northerly by said Town Highway, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet to the point and place of beginning.
Meaning and intending to hereby convey the FIRST TRACT described in deed dated November 28, 1936 by Langworthy et als to this Grantor; said deed being of date November 28, 1936 and recorded in the Record of Land Evidence, Book 33, page 697 and 698; said tract also being shown as Lot 19 on Assessor's Plat 10 on file in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown. Reference to said deed, the records thereof and said plat, being hereby had and made and said plat being a part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises herein conveyed.
This conveyance is made subject to rights-of-way and seaward privileges that may be of record.
I, HAROLD W. BROWN, husband of the Grantor release to said Grantees all my right of curtesy and all other interest in and to the aforesaidescribed premises.
WITNESS our hands this 17th day of December, 1953.
RUTH J. BROWN
HAROLD W. BROWN
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10)
STATE OF CONN.
COUNTY OF NEW HAVEN
In Naugatuck, Conn., on the 17 day of December, 1953, before me personally appeared Ruth J. Brown and Harold W. Brown, wife and husband, both 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.
ARTHUR C. PEARSON (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Received for record December 28th, A. D. 1953 at 9:30 o'clock, a. m., and,
recorded by [?]
Town Clerk