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578 Know all men by these presents that I Charles of Greene of the town
of Richmond county of Washington and state of Rhode Island for and in consideration
of the sum of Eighty eight dollars ($88.00) to me paid by George C. Bowles,
Rutherford Collins and Charles W. Morris, all of the town of Richmond county
of Washington and state of Rhode Island, the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge
have granted bargained sold remised released and forever conveyed and assigned
and by these presents do give grant bargain sell remise release and lease and forever
release unto the said George C. Bowles, Rutherford Collins and
Charles W. Morris their heirs and assigns forever all the right title interest
property claims and demands whatever I now have or ought to have or claim in
or unto a tract of land called Delaware in the town of Richmond at a place called
the Charleston Beach and bounded as follows, commencing at the North West
corner of Henry Millingtons lot at a post and running South westerly three
hundred feet to a post set on the North bank of a brook then South easterly to the
Atlantic Ocean and bounded on the South East by land of Gabriela [illegible]
thence North westerly One hundred feet or until it comes to the land of Albert S.
Pollock connected on the South East by the Atlantic Ocean thence North easterly to
set in the North bank of a brook then South easterly two hundred and twenty four
feet to a post set near the shore of say way and connected on the North West by land of
Albert S. Pollock thence Easterly one hundred and four feet onto the first mentioned
post and bounded on the North East by land of Gabriela [illegible] I the grantor
also have a right of way across the land of the grantor from the road S.W. running
morning East and about a distance to the north of the above described lots to the
above lot subject however to the right of enjoyment not abolished by North &
Henry since 1784 on payment in the grantor to the grantor of the sum of
fifty eight dollars ($58.00) with the interest from the date of this deed without cum
or expense to the said George C. Bowles, Rutherford
Collins and Charles W. Morris their heirs and assigns forever And I the
above named Charles of Greene for myself and for my heirs executors and administrators
convey and quit claim the said George C. Bowles, Rutherford Collins and Charles W. Morris
and his assigns and assignats that I am lawfully seized in and for simple fee of the aforementioned
part that they one for some all extremities henceforth as owner a fee simple to hold and all
convey the same to the said Bowles, Collins and Morris their heirs and assigns
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of
November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Edward A. Hengen
William W. Bittridge
Signed Charles of Greene D.S.
State of Rhode Island in Washington to
I the undersigned on this tenth day of November A.D. 1880 personally appeared Charles f
Greene above referer to the foregoing instrument acknowledged it to be his free act and deed
Before me G. A. Hengen Notary Public
Returned for Record Nov 29 1880 at 9 oclock A.M.
and recorded by Robert S. Boss Town Clerk