The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Martha Jane Taylor of Charlestown in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know ye, That I the said Martha Jane Taylor
for and in consideration for the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars as
in hand before the crossing hereof well and truly paid by
Danny Burdick and Joseph Burdick of Charlestown aforesaid
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and say that hereby fully satisfied and contented paid and tendered and of every part and parcel
thereof do remise acquit and discharge for the said Danny Burdick her
heirs, executors and administrators present by these presents have grant bargain sold ceded conveyed confirmed and conveyed ; and
by these presents do grant release sell fully absolutely give grant bargain sell above convey and confirm unto the heirs and assign forever
the following
a certain lot or tract of land lying in said Charlestown containing thirty
two acres more or less bounded Northwesterly by the Providence and Charlestown
Mill Road Boundary, by land of Daniel Whitney, southerly by land of Peter
O Board and Michael his land boundary of the said Danny Burdick her heirs and
otherwise the same may be bounded it hereby lot No 1 in the division
of the estate of my father Joseph Taylor (deceased) state of Rhode Island deceased
as will officer lot plot and description of said estate made by order of
the Court of probate of said Charlestown on the 16 th day of April AD
1868 and Recorded in book 10 land records in said Charlestown
pages 211 & 212 reference to said division and plot being hereby
made for a more particular description of the same
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 her the said Danny Burdick her
heirs and assigns forever to her and their only proper use benefit and behoof forever. And I the said
Martha Jane Taylor for my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant to and with the said Danny Burdick her
heirs and assigns at and after the date of the enclosing hereof I am the true sole and lawful owner of the above described
premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same in my own proper right and good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance
in fee simplely and in sure way; and that the said premises are free of any encumbrance whatever and that I have full power
to sell and convey the same. And that the said Danny Burdick her
heirs and assigns shall and may from this time and at all times forever have hold enjoy possess by virtue of these presents lawfully and peaceably and
quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the aforesaid premises hereby granted to her and her heirs and assigns together with the appurtenances from the free and clear and hereby
free and clear of and from all and all manner of former or other gifts grants bargains sales leases mortgages wills
estates jointures dower judgments executions and encumbrances of what nature or source whatever shall not in any manner or degree obstruct
or make void this present deed.
Furthermore I the said Martha Jane Taylor
for myself my heirs executors her administrators do covenant and agree the above described
premises to her the said Danny Burdick her
heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims or demands of any persons or persons whatever forever to warrant and secure by these presents and defends
On Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27 th
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
three Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Martha J Taylor L.S.
Danny Burdick
George G Moore's Washington Co. In Charlestown this 27 th day of March
1883 Then personally appeared Martha Jane Taylor signer of the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged the same to be her free and voluntary act and deed before me
Immediately so came to her free and voluntary act and deed before me [illegible] Town Clerk
Witnessed for Record April 17 th 1883 at 2 o'clock PM and Recorded by
Charles Cross Town Clerk
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Civil Engineer" which plat is to be recorded in said Records in Charlestown
and also in the Records of Land Evidence of said Town of South Kingstown,
to which reference is hereby made.
Reserving, however, to Dorothea D. Walsh, her heirs and assigns, for the
benefit of her remaining land, a right of way for all purposes for whom
purposes she may desire to use it, including the right to use and open a strip
of land parallel fifty (50) feet in width and partly forty (40) feet in width
of land partly fifty (50) feet in width and partly forty (40) feet in width
lying between dotted lines on the last named plat to be recorded.
Subject to transmission line easement by James A. Walsh and wife to the
Narragansett Electric Company dated September 9, 1953 as aforesaid
said in Charlestown in Book 31 at page 457 and in South Kingstown in Book
65 at page 116.
Subject also to taxes assessed as of December 31, 1953.
I, James A. Walsh, husband of the grantor, Dorothea D. Walsh, relense to said grantees
all my right of curtesy in and to the granted premises.
WITNESS our hands this 1st day of October, 1954 to this and a duplicate original hereof
both of which should be deemed originals executed for convenience of recording.
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $4.95)
DOROTHEA D. WALSH
JAMES A. WALSH
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In South Kingstown, in said County on the 1st day of October, 1954, before me personally
appeared the above named grantor, Dorothea D. Walsh and James A. Walsh, her husband, to me known
and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said
instrument, by then executed, to be their free act and deed.
DANIEL J. HIGGINS
Notary Public
Received for record October 7th, A. D. 1954 at 11:52 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
Industrial National Bank of Providence, having received full payment and satisfaction of the
within mortgage, recorded in the Land Evidence Records in the Town of South Charlestown in
Mortgage Book 34 at page 350 does hereby cancel and discharge the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, said Company has caused these Presents to be signed and its Corporate
Seal to be hereunto affixed by its Vice President and Asst. Cashier duly authorized , this
8th day of October, A. D. 1954.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Margaret B. Walker
INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK
of Providence (Corporate Seal)
By Everett J. Bateman
Vice-President
Leroy C. Whitford
Asst. Cashier
Received for record October 14th, A. D. 1954 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk