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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, JOHN N. JOHNSON, JR. and GENEVIEVE L. JOHNSON, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to C. LEROY JOHNSON and RHODA L. JOHNSON, 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 parcel or tract of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point Twenty (20) feet westerly of the boundary line marking the easterly boundary line of premises of three Grantors and the westerly boundary line of premises of J. S. [?] et al., and said point being boundary line of premises of said Grantors, feet southerly from the State Highway, commonly known as the Post Road; thence running southerly, maintaining the distance of Twenty (20) feet westerly of the boundary line of premises of said Wills land, a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet; thence at right angles and running westerly a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet; thence at right angles and running northerly a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet; thence at right angles and running easterly a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet; thence at right angles and running southerly a distance of Two Hundred (200) feet to the roads and Place of Beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described.
The aforementioned tract is conveyed and accepted subject to the following restrictions:
It is hereby mutually agreed and by convented between the parties hereto, that the above described premises shall not be conveyed or transferred by said Grantees, their heirs or assigns, in any tract of land smaller than One Hundred (100) feet square; that for building and conveying purposes said tract shall run not less than One Hundred (100) feet northerly and southerly and easterly and westerly, and not more than one dwelling house may be or shall be erected on any one of these tracts.
The Grantees, their heirs and assigns are hereby granted a right-of-way, in common with others, with vehicles or otherwise, to and from and from and to said Post Road, over that portion of the premises Twenty (20) feet in width along the easterly boundary line of premises of these Grantors.
We, John N. Johnson, Jr. and Genevieve L. Johnson, husband and wife, release to said Grantees all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in and to the aforedescribed premises.
WITNESS our hands this 29th day of December, 1953.
JOHN N. JOHNSON, JR.
GENEVIEVE L. JOHNSON
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $2.20)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown, on the 29th day of December, 1953, personally appeared John N. Johnson, Jr. and Genevieve L. Johnson, husband and wife, 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.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public
Received for record February 10th, A. D. 1954 at 10:15 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk
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