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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, ESTHER OSTERHUS, of Brooklyn, State of New York, for consideration paid quaint, grant to HENRIETTA M. LARSON, of the Town of Weston, County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and NORA L. LARSON, of the City of Austin, State of Minnesota, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain parcel or tract of Land situated and being in the Town of Charles-town, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island and described as follows:
The southerly one-half ($\frac{1}{2}$) part or portion of that certain lot or tract of land, shown and designated as Lot Number 13 (District B) on plat entitled "Plat of the Former Estate of Property of H. B. Burdick, on Quonnocutug East Beach Charlestown, R. I., Scale 100 Feet to an Inch, dated 1924" by P. S. Moore, surveyor, said plat being filed in the Records of Land Evidence, Town of Charlestown, in Plat Book No. 1, Page 28.
The premises herein conveyed are bounded northerly by the northerly one-half ($\frac{1}{2}$) portion of said Lot Number 13, a distance of 155 feet, more or less; easterly by the shoreline of Pond Pond, a distance of 155 feet; southerly, by Lot No. 15, as shown on said plat, a distance of 170 feet, more or less; westerly, by a street, as shown on said plat, a distance of 70 feet.
Meaning and intending to convey the southerly one-half ($\frac{1}{2}$) portion of the premises conveyed by deed of Hazard R. Burdick to Gustav Osterhus, said deed being recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, Book No. 24 at Page 86, November 23, 1930, and according to the records thereof being hereby had and made and the same made a part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed. Title having been vested in the name of this Grantor by virtue of the provisions contained in the will of my late father, Gustav Osterhus a copy of said will being filed in the Records of Probate, said Town of Charles-town.
I, Esther Osterhus, hereby covenant that I am unmarried.
WITNESS my hand this 18th day of February, 1954.
ESTHER OSTERHUS
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, $1.10)
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF KINGS
In Brooklyn, New York, on the 18th day of February, 1954, before me personally appeared Esther Osterhus, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed.
CARL N. HEIBERG (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Carl N. Heiberg
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 24-198350
Qualified in Kings County
Cert. filed with Kings Co, Register
Commission Expire March 30, 1955.
STATE OF NEW YORK }
County of Kings } ss.
No. 37424
I, FRANCIS J. SINNOTT, Clerk of the County of Kings, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for the said County, the same being a Court of Recording, have a seal do HEREBY CERTIFY, That Carl N. Heiberg whose name is subscribed to the deposition of the attorney or agent or proof of the acknowledgment or proof of taking the same as a witness or agent thereunto attached is duly commissioned and sworn to be a NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and that the commission is in full force or a certificate of his appointment and qualifications, and his autograph signature, having been filed in my office is true correct and authentic; and that the commission is in full force in State of New York to administer oaths and affirmations, to receive and certify the acknowledgment of deeds or conveyances, and to take and certify affidavits and depositions and to protest notes and to take and certify affidavits and declarations and to certify the signatures of the witnesses to the instruments of conveyance or have compared the signature on the annexed instrument with his autograph signature deposited in my office, and believe that the signature is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County and County, this 18 day of Feb. 1954.
FRANCIS J. SINNOTT, Clerk (L. S.)
Received for record April 8th, A. D. 1954 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
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