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I, ALFRED J. RICHARD, of the Town of Richmond, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to MICHAEL PIETILA and MARY K. PIETILA, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
Beginning at a concrete monument set in the ground on the southerly side of a roadway or driveway leading from the State Highway to the premises hereby conveyed at the northeasterly corner of said tract; thence running in an easterly or southeasterly direction, a distance of Three Hundred Fifty (350) feet, more or less, to a stone monument set in the ground, near the middle of a small Cove, on the northerly or northeasterly shore of Pasquitte Pond; thence running in a southeasterly direction, following the shore of said Pond, a distance of Three Hundred Fifty (350) feet, more or less, to another stone bound set in the ground; thence running in a straight line in a general northwestern direction, a distance of Three Hundred Seventy-five (375) feet, more or less, to a stone bound set partly in the salt water and partly in a roadway or driveway said last-mentioned point being One Hundred Forty (140) feet, more or less, westerly from the State Highway; thence running easterly, thence running northerly bounded by said roadway or driveway, a distance of One Hundred Forty (140) feet to the point of beginning.
The Grantee, his heirs, successors and assigns are hereby granted the right to pass and repass to and from the above described premises over the roadway or driveway, as now travelled, and the said State Highway.
The object of this quit claim deed is to release the above described premises from a certain mortgage given by Michael Pietila to Alfred J. Richard dated June 11th, 1936 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, in said Town of Charlestown in Book No. 27 at Page 11.
I hereby covenant that I am unencumbered.
WITNESS my hand this 6th day of July 1940.
ALFRED J. RICHARD
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
County of Washington }
In Richmond, on the 6th day of July, 1940 before me personally appeared Alfred J. Richard to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public
Received for record July 8th, A. D. 1940 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk