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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.
County of Providence
In Providence in said County on the 2nd day of January, A. D. 1940, before me personally appeared the above named WELCOME S. CARMICHAEL and wife DOROTHY L. CARMICHAEL, each and all to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
WILLIAM E. PARKERSON
Notary Public.
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS, $4.50)
Received for record January 3rd, A. D. 1940 at 10:35 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Hattie L. Bennet of the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington town and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to Arthur M. Weeden, unmarried, of the Town of Westerly, in said County and State with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain real estate situated in said Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
The undivided one-sixth part of all the real estate of which my father Samuel Congdon, late of said Charlestown, deceased, died seized and possessed, described as being situated in said town in the first tract containing approximately one half acre, more or less, with a dwelling house thereon standing, and is situated near the line dividing the first and second tracts, said tract containing approximately five acres, more or less, and is designated on the Plat of the Indian Reservation in said Charlestown as "Natilia Congdon", with the exception of that portion of said lot which is now owned on said lot and which said lot was conveyed to Natilia Congdon deeded to Josena J. Sparkes, which said deed is on record in Book 19, page 140 of the Charlestown land evidence records, and further conveyed to Hattie L. Bennet by deed dated November 30th, 1914, and recorded in Book 19, page 140 of the Charlestown land evidence records.
Also that certain tract of land bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning on said State Highway at the intersection of land of Oddmon B. Bennett and Hattie L. Bennet, thence running in a northerly direction along said Highway to the line of land of Samuel Congdon turning and running in a westerly direction along land of Josha Nova and Edward Mills to land of Gerald Woodmansee in a southeasterly direction and running along said Woodmansee land to land of Oddmon B. Bennett; thence turning and running in an easterly direction to the point of beginning and bounded on the east along said State Highway, on the west by land of Frank Woodmansee, on the south by land of Samuel Congdon and on the north by land of Josha Nova and Edward Mills. Being a part of the premises with which Anne A. Bowie court said Hattie L. Bennet by deed dated February 12th, 1914, and recorded in Book 19, page 253, of said Town of Charlestown Land Evidence Records.
The purpose of this deed is such that no revenue stamps are required.
I, Oddmon B. Bennet, husband of the grantor Hattie L. Bennet release to said grantee all my right of curtesy and all other interest in the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands the 2nd day of January 1940.
HATTIE L. BENNETT (SEAL)
ODDMON B. BENNETT (SEAL)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington)
In Westerly on the 2nd day of January 1940, before me personally appeared Oddmon B. Bennet and Hattie L. Bennet, husband and wife, to me 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.
HERBERT J. RATBURN
Notary Public
Received for record January 3rd, A. D. 1940 at 4:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk