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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Nehemiah L Southam of Westerly County of Washington state of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That I the said Nehemiah L Southam
[illegible] for and in consideration of the sum of
Five hundred dollars stellar
Samuel Southam of Westerly County and state aforesaid
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and by these parts fully satisfied and paid; and thereof and of every part and parcel of
the described estate acknowledge and discharge the said Samuel Southam here in
heirs, executors and administration forever by these presents; have given granted bargained and sold released conveyed and confirmed; and
by these presents do freely give grant release and absolutely give grant bargain sell convey confirm and unite unto
the said heirs and assign forever
Samuel Southam
being a certain piece of land situated in
Westerly town in said County of Washington being two lots out of said
lots containing forty perches more or less with a dwelling house thereon
convened North by land of James & Sarah Johnson forever East and West by the
Highway and on the West by land of the Heirs of Structure Southam and
James Johnson the other side lots containing one hundred and ten
perches more or less four feet dancey or more’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Charlestown, on the 13th day of September, 1954, before me personally appeared
Louis R. Hazard and Lena M. Hazard, both to me known and known by me to be the parties exe-
cuting 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 September 13th, A. D. 1954 at 10:30 o'clock, a. m., and
recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
STATUTORY FORM OF WARRANTY DEED.
We, ANTHONY G. WATT and LEAPIE B. WATT, husband and wife, both of Franklin, County
of Sussex and State of New Jersey, as joint tenants, for consideration paid grant to
JOHN P. HURTADO, ANNIE K. HURTADO and BARBARA ANNE HURTADO, all of East Providence,
County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, as joint tenants and not tenants in common,
meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY CONVEYANCE.
A certain tract or parcel of land situated and delineated at Quonochontoc-
tan Beach, so called, in the Town of Charlestown, County of "washing-
ton and State of Rhode Island, and bounded and described as follows,
to wit:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the parcel herein conveyed
at a point on the northerly line of Kenyon Avenue, so called, said
point being fifteen (15) feet east from the southwestern corner
of land of Mary Wilcox Vars; thence westerly along the northerly line
of Kenyon Avenue to the northerly line of Lot #203 to the southwestern
corner of the parcel herein conveyed; thence turning a right angle and
extending northerly one hundred twenty (120) feet to the northeasterly
corner of the parcel herein conveyed; thence turning a right angle and
extending easterly one hundred thirty one (131) feet to the northeasterly
corner of the parcel herein conveyed; thence turning a right angle and
extending southerly one hundred twenty (120) feet to the line of the
beginning of said parcel, said parcel being bounded southerly by Kenyon Avenue, ss
colled, westerly by land of Herman Vandermaten, et ux, northerly and north-
easterly by land of Edward B. Wilcox Vars, and easterly by a fifteen (15) foot
right of way on other land of said Thomas Vars.
Meaning and intending to convey and lots Nos #203 and #210 as shown and delineated
on that certain plan or plat of the subdivision of Plat of Quonochontoc Central Beach
as extended February 24th, 1948, Charlestown, Rhode Island, property of H. E.
and N. H. Thorpe, scale 1 inch equals 50 feet, July 1948, signed "H. E. & N.
Engrs."
Said grantees, their heirs and assigns will have the right to pass and return
to repair and from the beach and also will have the right to walk or root on photosphere or
over and on across those certain rights of way or roads as shown on the
above mentioned plat and also on that certain plan or plat which is recorded on
Quonochontoc Central Beach, as extended, revised September 19, 1929, the
leading to the beach and also the right of way leading to the beach which might hereafter
be designated for public use, the said grantees, for themselves, their heirs and assigns
and the heirs and assigns of the grantors, and the grantors, their heirs and assigns will
and shall pay to Quonochontoc Central Beach Fire District, its successors and
assigns, on or before the first day of August in each year thereafter the
sum of Five ($) Dollars to the said Quonochontoc Central Beach Fire District, intended
and applied by the said Quonochontoc Central Beach Fire District, its successors and
assigns, in its and their efforts to maintain and preserve the road and the
maintenance of the road and other portions that may be designated for public
use, and the said sums agreed to be paid are hereby agreed to be a lien and
upon the premises herein conveyed, and in case of failure to make any payment
within one year after the same shall become due, it shall be lawful for the
said Quonochontoc Central Beach Fire District, its successors and assigns to its