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The Grantees, its successors and assigns, are hereby granted a right-of-way, in common with others, for all purposes, thirty (30) feet in width, from the premises hereby conveyed to the State Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned.
This conveyance is made subject to easements of the Narragansett Electric Company of record in the Records of the Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown.
The hereof described premises being more particularly described and shown on plat entitled Preliminary Survey of Land for Downey-Weaver Post #4, American Legion, situated in the Preliminary Survey of Land for Downey-Weaver Post #4, American Legion, Charlestown, R. I., C. A. Rounds, Engr., Scale 1" = 80' dated March 1956, Town of Charlestown; reference to said plat being here made and for a more complete and detailed description of the premises of the hereby conveyed premises.
I, Mary Downey wife of the grantor hereby release to said grantee all my right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid described premises.
WITNESS our hands this 3rd day of March of 1956.
ROBERT DOWNEY
MARY ELIZABETH DOWNEY
STATE of MARYLAND, etc.)
County of Allegany )
I in Cumberland on the 3rd day of March, 1956 before me personally appeared Robert Downey and Mary Downey and Mary Downey to me known and by me known and by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
D. W. MAGRUDER (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
My Commission expires May 8, 1957.
STATE OF MARYLAND }
COUNTY OF ALLEGANY }
JOSEPH B. BODEN, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Maryland, the same being a court of record of the aforesaid county, having by law a seal, do hereby certify that: D. W. Magruder, Esquire, whose name is subscribed above as Notary Public, has acknowledged, proof or affidavit, proof or affidavit with a certificate of a witness, or acknowledgment, proof or affidavit, a Notary Public affidavit and at the time of its execution was a Notary Public in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn and residing in said county, and was, as such, an officer of said state, duly commissioned and sworn and residing in said county, and was, as such, an officer of said state, duly authorized by the laws of said state to take acknowledgments, proofs and affidavits, and I hereby certify the proper and authentic assignment of deeds and other instruments in writing to be recorded in said state, the proper and authentic assignment of deeds and other instruments in writing to be recorded in said state, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be and always shall be given to his official seal and that well examining the said instrument, and verily believe that the signature to the attached certificate is his genuine signature, and that the laws of this State do not require the filing of seal impressions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 18th day of July 1956.
JOSEPH B. BODEN (L. S.)
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Cumberland, Maryland
Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:19 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk
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STATUTORY QUIT-CLAIM DEED
We, Walter Baker, Ernest G. B. Champion, Frank H. Cornell, Edwin Derry, James Finnie, Louis J. Galmiche, Glenn F. Godden, Ellison Hilton, Joseph J. Johnson, Sherwood Kenyon, Richard Larkin, Charles W. Linak, Eugene C. O'Donnell, Leo E. O'Donnell, Roland E. Richards, William A. Smith, Kurt Sonntag, Arthur Stewart, George A. Teamey, Jr, Joseph H. Tougas and Wallace E. Travis for consideration paid, grant to DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOCIATION, a non-business corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island, with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
That certain tract or parcel of land, containing 30 acres, more or less, situate and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
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BEGINNING at a point in the center line easement of the Narragansett
Electric Company (formerly the New England Public Service Company),
said point being Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound mark
indicating the southwesterly corner of land of Charles H. Williams and
(82.5) feet to a corner located in the center line of a 30-foot right of way;
(82.5) feet to a point; thence running South 83° East a distance of Three Hundred
(300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking the easterly side of the
Path curtailed thereunto; thence running South 83° East a distance of Two Hundred
Eighty-seven (287) feet, more or less, to the boundary easterly by Paquissett
Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven (287) feet, to the center line
of said easement of the Narragansett Electric Company; thence running
North 88° West 40 feet, along the center line of said easement, a distance
of Seventy-five (75) feet to the southwesterly corner of the point of Beginning;
Northesterly by the center line of said easement easterly; say by Paquissett
Path; easterly by land now or formerly of the heirs of the estate of
George P. Clark.
The grantees and their heirs and assigns are hereby granted a right-of-way, in
common, with others, for all purposes, thirty (30) feet in width, from the premises
hereby conveyed to the State Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned.
This conveyance is made subject to easement of the Narragansett Electric
Company of Record in the Records of Land Evidence, town of Charlestown.
The herein described premises being more fully described and shown on plat
entitled "Preliminary Plat of Lot 1 for Downey-Wesper Post 34, American Legion
Unit 34, Charlestown, R.I., C. A. Rounds, Engr., Scale 1" = 80' 0", "recorded
plat being filed in the Town Clerk's office in the town of Charlestown refer-
ence to said plat being hereby made and for a more complete and detailed de-
scription of the premises reference is made thereto.
The purpose of this deed is to correct a mistake made by the scrivener of a deed
executed by George P. Clark and Vera J. Clark on April 7, 1948 and recorded in Land
Evidence book No. 31, page 97 conveying the above described premises to the Downey-Wesper Post
No. 34, American Legion, an unincorporated association. We, the grantors, were members of
the said association, which was incorporated and is now the Downey-Wesper Post Building
Association, and we mean and intend to convey any interest that we may have in the above
described premises as a result of the mistake in the said deed by George P. Clark and Vera
J. Clark. The mistake made in said deed was to name an unincorporated association as grantee.
As a result of this mistake, there is a question as to who holds title to the said premises.
We, Ruth Baker, wife of Walter Baker, Kathleen Champion, wife of Ernest G. B.
Champion, Josephine Cornell, wife of Frank H. Cornell, Nona Finnie, wife of James Finnie,
Esther Galmiche, wife of Louis J. Galmiche, Mildred Godden, wife of Glenn F. Godden, Mildred
Hilton, wife of Ellison Hilton, Ruth Johnson, wife of Joseph J. Johnson, Virginia Kenyon,
wife of Sherwood Kenyon, Margaret Larkin, wife of Richard Larkin, Constance Link, wife of
Charles W. Link, Mafalda O'Donnell, wife of Burence C. O'Donnell, Caroline O'Donnell, wife of
Leo E. O'Donnell, Eileen Richards, wife of Roland E. Richards, Jenny Smith, wife of William
A. Smith, Doris Somtory, wife of Kurt Somtory, Lyntha Tormoy, wife of George A. Tormoy, Jr.,
Barbara Tougas, wife of Joseph H. Tougas, and Irene Travis, wife of Wallace E. Travis, do
hereby respectively release to said grantee all our right and power of dower and all other interest
in the aforementioned premises.
We, Edwin Derry and Arthur Schwester, do hereby respectively covenant that we are
unmarried.
The consideration for this deed is such that no Documentary Stamps are required.
Witness our hands this 6th day of January, 1956.
ERNEST G. B. CHAMPION
EUGENE C. O'DONNELL
CHARLES W. LINK
MAFALDA O'DONNELL
CONSTANCE LINK
MARGARET LARKIN
RICHARD LARKIN
KURT SOMTORY
ANNIE SOMTORY
KURT GONTANG
JOSEPHINE CORNELL
FRANK H. CORNELL
ROLAND E. RICHARDS EILEEN M. RICHARDS
LEO E. O'DONNELL
BURENCE C. O'DONNELL
NONA M. FINNIE
GEORGE A. TORMOY, JR.
BARBARA TOUGAS
JOSEPH TOUGAS
WALLACE E. TRAVIS
IRENE TRAVIS
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JAMES FINNIE
JOSEPH J. JOHNSON
RUTH JOHNSON
ELLISON HILTON
WILDRED HILTON
KATHLEEN B. CHAMPION
WILLIAM L. GAUTCHE
LOUIS J. GALMICHE
ESTHER GALMICHE
DORIS GALMICHE
SHERWOOD N. KENYON
VIRGINIA KENYON
DONIE SONNTAG
WALTER BAKER
RUTH BAKER
JENNY SMITH
LYNTHA TORNEY
GLENN F. GODDEN
MILDRED GODDEN
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 6th day of January, 1956 before me personally appeared Ernest G. B. Champion, Eugene C. O'Donnell, Charles W. Link, Mafalda O'Donnell, Constance Link, Margaret Larkin Champion, Frank H. Cornell, O'Donnell, and Richard Larkin to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
ARCHIBALD B. KENYON, JR.
Notary Public.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 6th day of January, 1956 before me personally appeared Josephine Lee Richards, Roland E. Richards, Leonard R. Richards, Leo V. O'Donnell, Caroline S. Cornell, Frank H. Cornell, Eileen M. Richards, Roland E. Richards, Leo V. O'Donnell, Caroline S. O'Donnell, Edwin Derry, Curt Sonntag and Arthur Sweet to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
ARCHIBALD B. KENYON, JR.
Notary Public.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 21st day of January, 1956 before me personally appeared Nona Finnie, Glenn F. Godden and Mildred Godden to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
ARCHIBALD B. KENYON, JR.
Notary Public
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,)
County of Washington )
In Richmond on the 4th day of February 1956 before me personally appeared Joseph Tougas, Barbara Tougas, Walter B. Travis, Irene Travis, James Finnie, Lyntha Torney and George A. Torney, Jr. to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
DAVID A. ARNOTT
Notary Public
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.,)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown, on the 26 day of Feb., 1956 before me personally appeared Joseph J. Johnson, Ruth Johnson, Ellison Hilton, Wildred Hilton, Kathleen Champion, William L. Gautche, Jenny Smith, Louis Galmiche, Esther Galmiche, Doris Galmiche, Sherwood Kenyon, Virginia Kenyon, Donie Sonntag as known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
DAVID A. ARNOTT
Notary Public
Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:20 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk