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To all People to whom these Presents Shall come.
We Job Brown and Fanny Brown his wife in the right of said Fanny of Coleistern
in the town of Westerly of Washington State of Rhode Island
send Greeting. Know All Ye, That we the said Job and Fanny Brown
for and in consideration of the sum of
one hundred dollars
in hand before the ensuing contract hereof well and truly paid by
Joseph R. Regard of the town, county and State aforesaid
the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and sum sufficiently paid and satisfied and thereof and of every part and parcel
thereof do remise acquit and forever discharge the said Joseph R. Regard that
hence forth we the said bargainors forever release remise and aliened aforesaid conveyed conferred and conveyed; and
by these presents do freely and absolutely give grant bargain sell and alien forever convey confirm and convey unto
Joseph R. Regard the said
heirs and assign forever
our undivided right in a certain lot of land and the improvements thereon standing
described in the annex of boundaries Called No 4 in the town of Coleistern R.I. for the boundaries
of the same boundaries is fully set forth to the deed Joseph R. Regard to Robert and Amy Regard
dated the 25th day of March 1808 and recorded in said Evidence Book Vol 4
page 281 in that town of Coleistern R.I. response is hereby intended to said deed and deeds
for the full description of the whole lot mentioning and intending hereby for to convey all the
interest which said Fanny has to said lot as one fourth of the lottee of Amy Regard
late of Coleistern deceased also all the right title and interest known and
demanded said Fanny's being acquired by purchase of book her by the deed which describes as
inside Coleistern and to said lot of land and improvements our said residue
said interest is supposed to be the one fourth part of the said promised more
or less And said lot contains by estimate about one half acre with a dwelling
house and store building thereon The said Regard is to maintain the line fence as
provided in the deed of Regard to said Amy aforesaid to end Also said
Regard is to assume the obligations imposed on said slave in the same manner as
Fanny assumed
To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to forever the said
Joseph R. Regard
their heirs and assigns forever to them and their proper me belief and beloved forever. And we the said
Job and Fanny
covenant promise and agree for and with the said
Joseph R. Regard
their heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and agree that he and his heirs and assigns at that said of the contracted hereof one in the true lawful sole and owner of the above bargained
premises as they have lawfully seized and possessed of the same in one good proper right as good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance
in fee simple forever and have and shall hold the said premises for himself and his heirs and assigns at that said of the
premises in manner as aforesaid. And that the said
Joseph R. Regard
their heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time at all times forever hold enjoy and possess the said land and bargained premises for himself and family of wine to these premises lawfully possessed and
clearly and free and clearly and
entirely occupied seized and enjoyed discharge and from all and all manner of other or gifts grants mortgages sales leases mortgages wills
estates jointures dowers judgments executions circumstances of what name nature so ever that might in any measure or degree obstruct
or make void this present deed.
Furthermore we the said
Job and Fanny
their heirs executors and administrators do covenant and agree for and forever entitle
premises to the said
Joseph R. Regard
their heirs and assigns
against the claims law demands or any person whatever forever to warrant seisin and defend in these presents.
I certify whenever said instrument has been executed before me this 1st day of June 1864
by Job Brown and Fanny Brown their right signatures acknowledged
Joseph Brown
Joseph Brown Lib.
State of Rhode Island County of Washington know All Ye, That Fanny Brown came personally before
me Notary Public in and for the said County and State of Rhode Island and residing in the town
of Westerly and acknowledged that she has signed and executed the foregoing instrument as her act and deed
and that she has done so for the free will and voluntary act of her own free will and that she has done so
for the purpose and consideration therein mentioned and that she has done so for the purpose of conveying
her interest in the said land to said Joseph R. Regard her son’s god son’s said husband and acknowledged this the
same as her act and deed and that the said did not wish to sign the same.
V. R. Clark, Public Notary
Examined for Record April 8th 1864
at Clark’s Off. and recorded by
Charles Brown V. R. Clark
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the law of said State to be under Seal.
In Testimony Whereof, and here haveunto set my hand and the Seal of said Superior Court
at Hartford, in said County, this 29th day of July, 1954.
RAYMOND G. CALNEN, Clerk (L.S.)
Received for record August 2nd, Ann. A. D. 1954 at 9:40 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
I, ROBERT ARNOLD SMITH, of the Town of Smithfield, in the County of Providence and
State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to GEORGE W. BERRY and JOHANNA BERRY,
husband and wife, both of Carolina, in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island,
as joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington,
State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
Those certain lots of land laid out and designated as lots numbered 515 (five hundred
fifteen, 516 (five hundred sixteen) and 517 (five hundred seventeen) on that plat entitled
"Charlestown by the Sea", owned and developed by Thomas P. Reilly, location Charlestown, Rhode
Island, Scale 1" = 100 feet, dated July 25th, 1934, C. W. Leighton, Civil Engineer, New Haven,
Conn.," which said plat is filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown. Said
lots together form one tract, bounded as follows:
SOUTHERLY : by Edgemare Street, as shown on said plat, seventy-five
(75) feet, more or less;
WESTERLY : by lot numbers 514, as shown on said plat, one hundred
(100) feet, more or less;
NORTHERLY : by lots numbered 478, 479 and 480, as shown on said plat,
seventy-five (75) feet, more or less;
EASTERLY : by lot numbered 518, as shown on said plat, one hundred (100)
Feet, more or less.
This conveyance is made SUBJECT to restrictions as contained on said plat.
Being the same premises conveyed to this grantor by deed from Thomas P. Reilly dated
December 19, 1936 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in the said Town of Charlestown
in Book 26 at Page 584.
I, Phyllis L. Smith, wife of the grantor, release to the grantees as Joint Tenants
and not as Tenants in common, all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforementioned
premises.
WITNESS our hands and seals this Twenty-ninth day of July, A. D. 1954.
Executed in the presence of:
George L. Sutcliffe
ROBERT ARNOLD SMITH (SEAL)
PHYLLIS L. SMITH (SEAL)
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
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County of Providence }
In Greenville on the 29th day of July, A. D. 1954 before me personally appeared Robert
Arnold Smith and Phyllis L. Smith, his wife, each and all to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument by
them executed, to be their free act and deed.
GEORGE L. SUTCLIFFE (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Received for record August 2nd, A. D. 1954 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m. and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk