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I, JOSEPH OWENS, of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to HARRY E. OWENS and EDITH OWENS, husband and wife, both of Baltic, State of Connecticut, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, shown and designated as Lot No. 7 (seven) on "Point Meadow Flat, Plat of Lots in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., property of Harvey C. Safford, Surveyed and Platted June 1936 by Leon L. Holland, C. E.," said plat being filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown.
Said lot is bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the northwest first corner of the lot hereby conveyed (140.97) which said point is one hundred forty four points and ninety-three hundredths (144.93) feet easterly from a stone wall; then running northwest corner of the land (140.97) feet easterly from a stone wall on Point Meadow Flat); thence in a straight line easterly seventy-two and thirty-one hundredths (72.31) feet to a point, thence turning south eighty-two degrees twenty-one minutes east, a distance of one hundred (100) feet to a point in the northeasterly line of a street as laid out on said plat; thence turning south forty-five degrees twenty-one minutes east, a distance of eighty-three feet to a point in the southeasterly line of said street, a distance of forty-one and ninety-three hundredths (41.93) feet to a point; thence in a northeasterly direction, a distance of one hundred eighty-four and eight hundredths (184.08) feet to the point of beginning.
Together with a right of way over all lands, formerly of Mary O. Belcher including that delineated on said plat; the said right of way being thirty feet wide, including any other right of Way that this Grantor may have by virtue of an agreement in essence between Louk B. Fell and the former owner, which agreement is on record in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by deed of Mary O. Belcher to Joseph Owens and Hazel V. Owens as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, bearing date of September 4, 1945 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book 29, Page 691. Reference to said deed and the aforementioned Plat being hereby made and had and the same made a part hereof for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed.
I, Joseph Owens, hereby covenant that said Hazel V. Owens has since deceased and that I am the surviving Grantee mentioned in the aforesaid deed and that I have not remarried.
The consideration of this deed is such that no Internal Revenue Stamps are required.
WITNESS my hand this 3rd day of April, 1954.
JOSEPH OWENS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown, on the 3rd day of April, 1954, before me personally appeared Joseph Owens, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act and deed.
RAYMOND C. VARS (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public:
My Commission expires June 30th, 1956
Received for record July 3rd, A. D. 1954 at 11:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk