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7/13/1954 · DEED · book 34 page 197 doc 3904@34/197

From COOPER DOROTHY, COOPER THOMAS life
To SCHEEF RUTH E, SCHEEF RICHARD L JR
Premises Lots 16 and 17 on westerly side of New Shore Road and Lot 6 (Charlestown, New Shore Road, Old Shore Road, Charlestown Beach)

Back — where this land came from

deed book 32 p 494 Charlestown
“Being a portion of that tract of land known as the SECOND PART, in that certain warranty deed... dated April 3, 1951”
◀ Follow back 1951 · DEED · VIENS MARY H; VIENS NORMAN J → WALLACE ALEXANDER; WALLACE ELLEN · book 32 p 494
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deed book 32 p 157 Charlestown
“Being the same lot conveyed to the then grantees in Land Evidence Records Book 32, Page 157”
◀ Follow back 1950 · DEED · CLARK GEORGE P; CLARK VERA J → WILKINS ETHEL V · book 32 p 157
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The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1951 · DEED · RIETZEL CHARLES W → COOPER DOROTHY; COOPER THOMAS · book 32 p 517
◀ 1951 · DEED · LIETZKE EARL O; LIETZKE ETHEL MAY TOOLIN; TOOLIN BETTY; TOOLIN ETHEL E → COOPER DOROTHY; COOPER THOMAS · book 32 p 470
◀ 1951 · DEED · RIETZEL CHARLES W → COOPER DOROTHY; COOPER THOMAS · book 32 p 509

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1972 · DEED · SCHEEF RUTH E; SCHEEF RICHARD L JR → COOPER DOROTHY; COOPER THOMAS · book 46 p 33

The instrument's own words

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197 STATUTORY FORM OF WARRANTY DEED. We, THOMAS COOPER and DOROTHY COOPER, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to RICHARD L SCHEEF, Jr. and RUTH E. SCHEEF, husband and wife, both of Webster Grove, County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants by the entirety, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS Those certain lots or parcels of land situate and being on the westerly side of the New Shore Road or the "Old Shore Road" in the Town of Charlestown, situated in the Town's index gives the parties as: grantor(s) COOPER DOROTHY; COOPER THOMAS; grantee(s) SCHEEF RUTH E; SCHEEF RICHARD L JR; instrument type DEED. Use those spellings when the text gives them. Transcribe the whole page faithfully in reading order, keeping the paragraph breaks; write names, dates, sums, lot and plat numbers, street names, and every book-and-page citation of an earlier deed exactly as written; mark an unreadable word as [?]. If the page carries the end of the previous instrument or the start of the next, transcribe that too and mark the boundary with a line "----". Output the text only, no commentary.town, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, and shown and delineated in a sketch map attached hereto and made a part hereof, and in that list of lands, comprised as Lots Numbers 16 and 17, recorded in the Records of Said Town of Charlestown in Book No. 33, between Pages 174 and 179, entitled, "Proposed Plan of Lots, List of Land in the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, Property of Thomas & Dorothy Cooper, Surveyed and Platted, May, 1952, Wilfred R. Easterbrooks, Civil Engineer, Scale 1" = 80'." Being a portion of that tract of land known as the SECOND PART, in that certain warranty deed of Thomas & Dorothy Cooper, husband and wife, Grantees, dated April 3, 1951, and recorded in said Records of Land Evidence, Book 32, Page 494 and 497. The Grantees, their heirs and assigns are hereby granted the right, privilege or immunity, in law or in equity, to use and enjoy the broader grant of said right, privilege or immunity, by said Grantors, their heirs and assigns, for parking a motor vehicle at any time, day or night, and said Grantors, their heirs and assigns, do hereby grant and assign that certain lot or tract of land in said Town of Charlestown, situated at "Charlestown Beach" co-called, and identified as Lot Number 6, recorded as Lot Number 6, in said plat entitled "W.R. Easterbrooks' Plan" in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., Surveyed in plat entitled "W.R. Easterbrooks' Plan" in the Town of Charlestown, situated on that entitled "W.R. Easterbrooks' Plan" dated April 1952, then conveyed to their heirs and assigns, for Charlestown, Rhode Island, recorded in said Town of Charlestown, in Land Evidence Book 23, Page 71, Being the same lot conveyed to the then grantees in Land Evidence Records Book 32, Page 157, and said Grantors, their heirs and assigns, or others, hereby release and assign that certain lot or tract of land to said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, or others possessing an interest in the same as set forth in the aforesaid deed to said Lot Number 6 (six). The Grantees, their heirs and assigns, agree not to erect or cause to be erected on said Lot Number 16 and 17 any building, structure or fence, for any purpose, and not to extend twenty feet to the line of any street or nearer, than ten feet to any other property boundary line, and the Grantees, their heirs and assigns, agree not to construct a cesspool, septic tank or septic tank disposal outlet, toilet, or to construct any property line than thirty (30) feet, and the Grantees, their heirs and assigns, further agree not to build any building constructed on the aforesaid lots Numbers 16 and 17, with their exterior shingled or clapboarded, and not tarpapered. We, Thomas Cooper and Dorothy Cooper, husband and wife, release to said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, all our right of curtesy and dower, respectively, and all other interest in and to the aforesaid described premises. WITNESS our hands this 13th day of July, 1954. THOMAS COOPER DOROTHY COOPER (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.) County of Washington In Charlestown, on the 13th day of July, 1954, before me personally appeared Thomas Cooper and Dorothy Cooper, husband and wife, both to my 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 July 13th, A. D. 1954 at 10:10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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