The instrument's own words
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hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above
written.
Sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Arthur E. Greene Sel.
Lora Wingfield Greene Sel.
State of New York
County of Rensselaer ss
On this twenty-fourth day of September in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety five before me, the subscriber
personally appeared Arthur E. Greene and Lora Wingfield Greene
personally known to me to be the same persons described in
and who executed the foregoing instrument and they acknowledge
to me that they executed the same,
Albay Greene
Justice of the Peace,
Received for record Oct 28, 1895 at 11-30 o'clock
and recorded by George B. Smith Town Clerk
Know All Men by these Presents, That we
Helen M. Bridges and Samuel Bridges husband of said
Helen M. Bridges both of Pittsfield, Berkshire county Massachusetts
in consideration of one dollar paid by Lucy K. Farmington
wife of Fernando P. Farmington of said Pittsfield the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant bargain
sell and convey unto the said Lucy K. Farmington her heirs
and using no forever, a certain tract of beach and situated
in Charlestown in the county of Washington in the State of
Rhode Island, containing twenty eight hundred square feet
bounded as follows, beginning at a stake in the ground and
the highest part of the beach band at the southeast corner
of the lot hereby conveyed and the southwest corner more or less
of Frances Almont, thence Northly bounded Easterly by and
of old wood twenty feet to a stake, thence Westerly twenty feet
to a stake in the ground, thence Northly twenty feet to the
stake at said Beach Bank, thence Easterly forty feet to the
place of beginning, bounded Northly, Westly and
southly by land more or less of William D. Lancaster
of Charlestown, Granting also to said Lucy Farmington
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her heirs and assigns a right to pass and repass both with the teams
and on foot across the land now or late of said Buring, $\mathcal{D}$ December
to the beach hereby conveyed, also a right of way four feet wide
for the purpose of fishing on foot from the fact hereon conveyed
to the Ocean, also a right to take water from the well
on the farm of said Buring $\mathcal{D}$ the same in the same manner
as he, his use on said land being the same land, right and
privileges ceded to the said Velon $\mathcal{D}$ Bridges by way of deed of
$\mathcal{D}$ December dated august 28 1893 and recorded in the Town
clerk's office at Cranston in Book No 2 page 167.
To have and to hold the granted premises, with all the
privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging to the said
Lucy M Farrington and her heirs and assigns, to their own
use and behalf forever and we hereby, for our ourselves and our
heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant with the said
grantee and her heirs and assigns that we are lawfully seized
in fee simple of the granted premises, that they are free from
all incumbrances that we have good right to sell and convey
the same as aforesaid, and that we will and our heirs, executors
and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the
grantee and her heirs and assigns forever against the lawful
claims and demands of all persons linking for the construction
aforesaid we do hereby release unto the said grantee and her
heirs and assigns all right of or to both close and homeland
in the granted premises. In witness whereof we the said
Helen M Bridges and Samuel Bridges hereunto set our hands
and seals this thirty first day of September in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety five.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
William Luette to enter
Helen M Bridges L.S.
Samuel Bridges L.S.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Berkshire S.S. 31 September 1895. Then personally appeared the
above named Samuel Bridges and Helen M Bridges and acknowledged
the foregoing instruments to be their free act and deed reference, and
with them there the above named Helen M Bridges also personally
appeared before me and was by me sworn privately and apart
from her said husband and while so privately and apart I showed and
explained to her the foregoing instrument by her readed, and she
acknowledged the same to be her free hand voluntarily act and
deed and declared to one that she did not wish to retract the
same.
William Luette
Justice of the Peace
Received by record Aug 5 1895 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George Olney Town clerk