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I, Charles P. Ecclesleton, of the town of Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island land for consideration paid grant unto Ray P. Ecclesleton and Jessie A. Ecclesleton, both of said Westerly and, to the survivor of them as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, with warranty covenants, a certain lot or parcel of land lying and being in the town of Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the southeasterly corner thereof at a stone post set in the ground and by running thence in a southeasterly direction (39 feet) more or less and with a roadway through land of said Bertha D. Ecclesleton (39 feet) more or less and with a roadway to an iron pipe driven into a stone ground; thence in a northerly direction (195 feet) more or less and with a roadway to another iron pipe driven into the ground at land of Helen Beather Marsh; thence westerly and by with said roadway through land of said Bertha D. Ecclesleton to a stone post set in the ground at land of said Bertha D. Ecclesleton, thence southerly and by with said roadway through land of said Bertha D. Ecclesleton (195 feet) more or less to the place of beginning, bounded westerly by said land of said Mudholl or however otherwise now held and by said Bertha D. Ecclesleton.
Reserving however from and out of the easterly end of said described premises the right to pass and repass by and return for any and all purposes over and across a strip of land five (5) feet in width running north and south across the easterly end of said premises granted for the purpose of land lying easterly of said described premises and his heirs and assigns forever.
Together with a right of way five (5) feet in width over and across and other land of said grantor lying immediately east of the easterly line of the land herein and hereby conveyed, to pass and repass at any and all times and for any and all purposes, to the said grantees his heirs and assigns forever.
The five (5) feet of land herein reserved as a right of way and the five (5) feet of land herein granted as route is more particularly designated and shown on a map or plan showing "Division of Lot 59 on Assessors' Plat 10 Town of Charlestown, Ray P. Ecclesleton." on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Charlestown.
Said described land and right of way is marked on said plat "to Ray P. Ecclesleton and Jessie A. Ecclesleton by deed dated May 9, 1939."
And I, Mattie D. C. Ecclesleton, wife of said Charles P. Ecclesleton hereby release my right of dower in and to said described premises.
WITNESS our hands this 9th day of May, A. D. 1939.
CHARLES P. ECCLESTON
MATTIE D. C. ECCLESTON
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly in said county on this 9th day of May A. D., 1939, before me personally appeared Charles P. Ecclesleton and Mattie D. C. Ecclesleton, to me known and known by me to be the parties described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed.
JOHN J. DUNN, [Notarial Seal]
Notary Public.
Received for record May 19th, A. D. 1939 at 4:25 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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