The instrument's own words
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64 Know all men by these presents that I William Gnesinger of the
town of Charlestown County of Washington and State of Rhode Island in
consideration of seven hundred and forty dollars to me paid by the Pace
Dale manufacturing Company, a Company incorporated by the legislature of
Rhode Island and doing business in the town of South Kingstown County
and State aforesaid, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge to be fully
said receive and forever quit claim unto said Pace Dale Co its successors
and assign all my right title and interest in and to a certain lot of
land situated in the village of Cardines Mills town of Charlestown
forementioned containing one quarter of an acre more or less bordered on
the south by a certain street running north towards the swamp 75
feet from the stone fencing corner to edge of a large flat rock 187 feet forward
then running North East 75 feet and from that point to the first mentioned bound
it running North East 187 feet Concluded that the houses to successors and assigns
shall build and maintain all the fence on said lot
To have and to hold the same together with all the buildings shaved and
within all the privileges and appurtenances thereto to the said Pace Dale Co
its successors and assigns forever And I the said William Gnesinger covenant
for myself mine heirs executors and administrators do covenant with said
Pace Dale Co its successors and assigns that I will warrant and
defend the same to said Pace Dale Co its successors and assigns forever
against the lawful claims of all persons claiming by through or under
me or mine heirs Amen I Mary Ann Gnesinger wife of said William
Gnesinger in consideration of the sum of one dollar paid me by said husband
as aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to said Pace Dale
Mfg Co its successors and assigns all my right of dower in and to the
aforesaid granted premises The condition of the aforementioned deed is
that if the said William Gnesinger the grantor his executors or administrators either
shall pay or discharge a certain promissory note given by me to said
Pace Dale Mfg Co bearing date ninth day of November and payable twelve
months of date with interest four per cent per annum for the sum of seven
hundred and forty dollars together with all accruals of
the same with interest full and ivory in every respect indemnify and
save harmless from costs and damages the said Pace Dale Mfg Co its
successors and assigns then this deed shall be null and void therefore
and null force In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals at Cardines Mills this 30th day of November and the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
Signed Sealed and delivered
In presence of William Gnesinger Ls
Sennumpth [illegible] S. D. Smede Mary Ann Gnesinger Ls
$1.00 A. D. Grew
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ss
Personally appeared William
1835 the 1st day of Dec. and Mary Ann Sennumpth separately
D. L. [illegible]
R. [illegible] Atty
R. [illegible] Atty
Recorded Nov Dec 1st 1835
by Obadiah Barnes Cl.
and made oath that the handwritten deed acknowledged the
foregoing deed by their signs to be their free act and
deed that certain funds and eight thousand cents offered
Charlestown November 30th 1835
Entered in Clerk Courts office of the
District of North East Dec 1st 1835 at 4 oclock PM
Obadiah Barnes Cl. Clerk
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sell and convey the premises at Public Auction, first giving notice of such
sale in some newspaper published and circulated in the Town of Barrington at least once
each week for three successive weeks and to become the purchaser or purchasers it
said sale. This conveyance is made and accepted subject to the following
conditions and restrictions:
1. In case of a conveyance of said site or said lot or parcel of land or any part
thereof to Howard E. Thorp and Nelson H. Thorp, their heirs and assigns
thereof, said Howard E. Thorp and Nelson H. Thorp shall have the first option
shall be given ten days notice, to repurchase the same buildings and improvements thereon at the high-
est bona fide price in good faith made and actually offered to the said grantees,
their heirs and assigns.
2. The above conveyed premises shall be used as a site for not more than one dwelling
house on each lot hereby conveyed which dwelling house or houses shall be sown on said plat
and no other structure or building (including porches on said plan) shall be erected on
any portion of the dwelling or buildings houses (including porches) shall be approved to the
street, alleys or other ways or within twenty feet of building lines, nor shall any person
build any building or any nature wit or whichever approach the side lines of the lot or
lots nor less than five feet, no stables, garages or other outhouses or other
buildings shall be erected thereby; dwelling house when erected on said lot or
lots shall cost when completed not less than thousand dollars, all lots or
lots shall have septic tanks; all outlets shall be piped to a suitable cesspool or
septic tank to be constructed and maintained on the above premises by the grantee,
the heir and assigns.
3. No division of line walls, hedges or fences shall be permitted nor, three steps
kin any, anything (except the dwelling house) that in any way obstruct the view
over any part of said lot or lots from the front of said dwelling house in this colony;
shrubs, flowers and vegetables shall be permitted.
4. No poultry, swine, cattle, notions or vicious dogs or cats or any other noisy or
objectionable animals of any kind shall be kept or permitted to be kept on said premises.
5. The said Quonochonticut Beach Properties, Inc. its successors and assigns, reserve
the right to enter upon the above described and convey premises to lay any pipe
outlets or pipes, or to repair the same, always leaving the premises in a good con-
dition as when entered upon.
6. It is hereby further covenanted, understood and agreed by and between the parties
hereto that all the aforesaid conditions, covenants and agreements on the part of the
said grantees, their heirs and assigns, are and shall be to be kept and performed
shall attach to and run with the land hereby conveyed; it is further covenanted,
that in case of any violation
part of the conditions or covenants on the part of said grantees, their heirs and
assigns, that the title to said lot or lots shall revert to said Howard E. Thorp
or Nelson H. Thorp, their heirs and assigns, and he or they may repossess himself
or themselves of the said lot or lots, and his, her, their right, title and interest hereby
conveyed shall be forfeited and cease and terminate.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed to those grantees
Howard E. and Nelson H. Thorp by deed dated August 18, 1950 and duly recorded in
the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book #32 at Page #225.
WITNESS our hands this 24th day of August 1954.
ARTHUR G. WATT
LEAFIA B. WATT
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.65)
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
COUNTY OF SUSSEX
In Franklin, New Jersey on the 24th day of August, 1954, before me personally appeared
ARTHUR G. WATT and LEAFIA B. WATT, husband and wife, to me known and known by me to be the parties
executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument by the executed to be
their free act and deed.
HARRY E. WATT (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Notary Public of New Jersey
My Commission expires Jan. 15, 1955.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY }
County of Sussex, } ss.
I, HENRY B. CAIRN, Clerk or the County of Sussex, and also Clerk of the County Courts,
holdin in and for said County, in and belonging Courts of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Harry E. Watt
whose is and its authenticated to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument,
whose and it is authenticated to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument,
wherein written, was at the date thereof, a NOTARY PUBLIC of the State of New Jersey,
said state to take the acknowledgments of deeds or conveyances of tenements or hereditaments in said
acknowledgment and proof of deeds or conveyances of tenements or hereditaments in said County
and State; and Further, that the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
I believe that the signature to said certificate or proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY HEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Courts and
County, at Newton, this 25th day of August A. D. 1954.
HENRY B. CAIRN, Clerk
DAVID N. GOULD, Jr., Deputy
Clerk
Received for record September 14th, A. D. 1954 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk