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7/26/1956 · DEED · book 35 page 400 doc 5008@35/400

From MCKAY MARY F AD, MCKAY DELIA J EST
To ARRUDA JANICE, ARRUDA JOSEPH
Premises about two acres · undivided half part of parcel bounded by land of Joseph A. Haskell and Emma C. Akers (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

deed Curtis G. [?] book 18 p 254 Charlestown
“premises conveyed to Timothy E. Morris by deed of Curtis G. [?]”
◀ Follow back 1915 · DEED · CLARK CHARLES H → MORRIS TIMOTHY E · book 18 p 254
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Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1968 · DEED · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH → CHOINIERE VIRGINIA P · book 42 p 290
▶ 1956 · AGREEMENT · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH; WHITE HAROLD A; WHITE HAROLD ARTHUR → WHITE HAROLD ARTHUR; WHITE HAROLD A; ARRUDA JOSEPH; ARRUDA JANICE · book 35 p 401
▶ 1956 · MORTGAGE · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH → WESTERLY SAVINGS FUND AND LOAN ASSOC · book 35 p 402
▶ 1958 · MORTGAGE · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF PROVIDENCE · book 36 p 402
▶ 1963 · MORTGAGE · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF RHODE ISLAND · book 39 p 374
▶ 1965 · MORTGAGE · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JOSEPH → INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF RHODE ISLAND · book 40 p 346
▶ 1966 · MORTGAGE · ARRUDA JANICE; ARRUDA JANICE E; ARRUDA JOSEPH; ARRUDA JOSEPH SR → AVCO DELTA MORTGAGE CORP · book 41 p 327

The instrument's own words

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400 I, said grantor hereby covenant that I am single. WITNESS my hand this 12th day of July, 1956. MARY E. MORRIS In presence of E. Raymond Walsh STATE OF RHODE ISLAND } County of Providence } In Providence in said County on the 12th day of July, 1956 before me personally appeared the above named Grantor, Mary E. Morris to me known and by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed. (No revenue stamps required) Received for record July 26th, A. D. 1956 at 10:45 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I, MARY F. MCKAY, of the City of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, administratrix of the estate of Delia J. McKay, late of the City of Providence and State of Rhode Island, deceased, by virtue and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by a decree of the Probate Court of the City of Providence and State of Rhode Island, entered on the 27th day of July, A. D. 1955, and of every other power and authority me hereunto enabling, and for and in consideration of the sum of SIXTY FIVE HUNDRED (6500) DOLLARS to me paid by JOSEPH ARRUDA and JANICE ARRUDA, his wife, of the Town of Charlestown and State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantees, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby in my said capacity grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said grantees as Joint Tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assigns forever, one undivided half part of, That parcel of land with all buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, containing about two acres, bounded and described as follows: Northerly and westerly by land of lately of Joseph A. Haskell and southerly by land of lately of Emma C. Akers and southerly on the highway and being the premises conveyed to Timothy E. Morris by deed of Curtis G. [?] dated May 12, 1936 and recorded with liber and page of Land Evidence in said Charlestown in Deed Book 18 at page 254 but excluding therefrom the portion of the said parcel conveyed by Deed dated May 1, 1949 and June 9, 1947 with recorded as said Delia J. McKay dated May 1, 1949 and June 9, 1947 and recorded with said Records in Deed Book 31 at page 421 and Deed Book 30 at page 396 respectively. Subject to taxes assessed as of December 31, 1955. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and appur- tenances thereunto appertaining unto and to the use of the said grantees, as Joint Tenants and not as tenants in common, and their heirs and assigns forever. And I, the said Mary F. McKay, as such administratrix, do hereby covenant for myself and for my successors, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, that I am the duly appointed qualified administratrix of said estate; that I, as such administratrix, have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; that this conveyance is made according to the direc- tions of said Court heretofore given to me; that I have given bond for the faithful applica- tion of the proceeds of this conveyance according to law and as required by the said decree
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of said Court, and that in all respects I have at all times conformed to the directions of said Court and the laws of said State in the premises. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I, said Mary F. McKay have hereunto set my hand and seal in my capacity as administratrix as aforesaid this 12th day of July A. D. 1956. In Presence of: C. W. Bubier MARY F. MCKAY Administratrix as aforesaid (DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $71.55) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF PROVIDENCE In the City of Providence in said County on this 25th day of July A. D. 1956, before me personally appeared the above named Mary F. McKay to me known and by me to be the person personally appeared the above named Mary F. McKay to me known and by me to be the person executing the foregoing instrument in her capacity as administratrix as aforesaid and she acknow- edged said instrument by her executed to be her free act and deed as administratrix as aforesaid. edged said instrument by her executed to be her free act and deed as administratrix as aforesaid. C. WARREN BUBIER Notary Public Received for record July 26th, A. D. 1956 at 10:46 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- AGREEMENT made this 14th day of July, A. D. 1956 by and between JOSEPH ARRUDA and JANICE ARRUDA, his wife, of the Town of Charlestown and State of Rhode Island, parties of the first part, hereinafter sometimes called "ARRUDA", and HAROLD ARTHUR WHITE, unmarried, of said Charlestown, party of the second part, hereinafter sometimes called "WHITE" WITNESSETH: THAT WHEREAS the parties hereto are owners of adjoining estate on the northerly side of Post Road in said Charlestown, and WHEREAS question has been raised as to the exact location of the common property line between said estates by reason of the indefiniteness of the description thereof in deeds of said White's estate from Mary E. Morris and Delia J. McKay to Henry Brooks Mathan recorded with the Records of Land Evidence in said Charlestown in Deed Book 31 at page 421 and in Deed Book 30 at page 396, respectively; NOW THEREFORE in order to remove any uncertainty as to the location of said property line the parties hereto, in consideration of the sum of ONE (1) DOLLAR said other to the paid recipient, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do mutually agree, each with the other, that said common property line between their respective sheets shall be and is the following described line: Beginning at a pipe driven in the ground in the northerly line of Post Road, said pipe being located easterly 100 feet from a stone wall in the easterly, from a point on the Highway boundary line said line of Post Road one hundred (100) feet northerly from a the center line of said road measured at a right angle to said line, thence in a line which forms an angle of 82° 02' with the northerly line of said Post Road and interior to said Arruda estate, fifty one (51.05) feet northing easterly to a pipe driven in a rock; thence deflecting 48° 42' to the right and running northeasterly, forming an angle of line of 41° 18' and 60/100 (the last described line being the common property line between said parties) 60/100 (45.60) feet to a drill hole in a stone at the southerly line of a stone wall; thence northerly in the line of said wall one hundred (100) feet, and thence 10 feet to another stone wall at land now or lately of W. Monroe Hoxsie, Jr.; and In consideration as aforesaid Arruda grants to White with QUITCLAIM COVENANTS all land lying westerly of and adjacent to the above described line, and White grants

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