The instrument's own words
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his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and
demands of all persons. And for the consideration
of aforesaid I Mary Reynolds the wife of Peyton S. Reynolds
do hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said
granted premises unto the said grantee and his heirs and assigns
forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 20th day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven 1887
Signed and sealed
in presence of
John Lo Kenyon
Peyton S. Reynolds L.S.
Mary Reynolds L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Hopkinton on the 20th day of
July AD 1887 before me personally appeared Peyton S.
Reynolds to me known, and known by me to be the
party securing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged
said instrument, by him declared to be his free act
and deed.
John Lo Kenyon Notary Public
L.S.
Received for record August 4 1887 at 11 oclock AM,
and recorded by George Converse Town Clerk
So to All People to whom these presents shall
come. I Frank E Bheen of Charlestown in Washington
County in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called
the grantor Send Greeting, Know ye that I
the said grantor for and in consideration of the sum
of one dollar to me in hand, before the executing hereof,
well and truly paid by James Gonsalves of Westdy
in said Washington County, hereinafter called the
grantee, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
and am therewith fully satisfied contented and
paid, and thereof and by every part and parcel thereof
do separate acquit and discharge the said grantee his
heirs executors and administrators forever by these
presents have given, granted, bargained, sold,
aliened conveyed conveyed and confirmed, and by these
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358 Presents as deed, fully, safely and absolutely give, grant,
bargain, sell all alien, shift and convey and confirm unto the
said grantee his heirs and assigns forever, a certain
tract of land situated in said Town of Charlestown on the
south side of road is known as the corner farm its size & bounds
& described as follows to wit on the North by the line of
the wall running along the driveway leading to grantees
house along said line Easterly until it enters to land
of B. T. Brown's wife, being bounded on the North by
land of the grantee on the East by land of Obed H.
Bisson wife of said H. Bisson, on the South by land
of said Obed H. Bisson, on the West by a line forty feet
East of land of heirs of Perry Healy, said forty feet to be
used along the West side of the granted premises to be used
as a driveway as hereinafter provided for, and also the right
to said grantee his heirs and assigns, to please and
further or alter any way so far as may be convenient
or necessary on land of the grantor adjacent to said
granted premises, and also the right to use in common
with the grantor the driveway along the North line of
said granted premises from the gateway on said North
line extended about 140 feet South West of the grantees
house to the fine of said Healy's nerve. and the
grantor covenants & agrees with said grantee his heirs
and assigns that neither six months from the date
hereof he will procure the legal right to make a
reasonably passable roadway along said forty feet
strip on the West side of the granted premises
continuing in a North East course across the said
land of the heirs of Perry Healy to the State highway
unless within said six months the Town Council
of said Charlestown shall commence proceedings to
lay out a public highway in the same place as and
proposed roadway from said State highway along
said proposed roadway to such place as they may be
fit, and provided that if said Town Council shall
commence said proceedings as aforesaid & fail to effect
a legal lay out of said proposed highway within one
year from the date hereof, then within two months
from the termination of said year, the said grantee
shall procure the legal right to make a reasonably
passable roadway as aforesaid.
To have and to hold, the said granted and
bargained premises, with all the aforementioned privileges
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and commodities to the same belonging, in as my wife aforementioned
to the said grantee his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their
only proper use benefit and behalf forever. And I the said
grantor for myself my heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant to and with said grantee
his heirs and assigns, that at or before the executing hereof
I am the true, sole and lawful owner of the stone bargained
premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same
in my own proper right good, perfect and absolute estate
of inheritance in fee simple; and have in my good right
full power and lawful authority to grant bargain, sell,
convey and confirm the said bargained premises in
manner as aforesaid. And that the said grantee his
heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time, and
at all times forever hereafter, by peace and virtue of these
presents lawfully, peaceably and quietly have, hold, use,
occupy, possess and enjoy the said devised and bargained
premises, with the appurtenances free and clear, and
fully and clearly acquitted, released and discharged of
and from all and all manner of tenure or other gifts,
grants, bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails,
jointures, doweries, judgments, executions and encumbrances
of what name or nature whatsoever, that might in any
measure or degree obstruct or make void this present
deed. Furthermore I the said
grantor for myself my heirs, executors and administrators
do covenant and engage the above described premises to
the said grantee his heirs and assigns, against the
lawful claims or demands of any person or persons
whatsoever, forever to warrant secure and defend by
these presents. And I Eunice Blihen wife of
said Frank E. Blihen in consideration of the sum paid
as aforesaid, do hereby release and forever quitclaim
unto the said grantee his heirs and assigns, all my
right of dower in and to the aforementioned premises,
In Testimony Whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 20th day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven,
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
A. B. Grafton
Frank E. Blihen L.S.
Eunice Blihen L.S.
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington Sc. In me certify this
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360:
20th day of August AD 1877 Frank E. Bliness and his
wife Minnie Bliness personally known to me and
sworn by me to be the persons who executed the
foregoing instrument personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them
signed to be their free and voluntary act and deed,
and then the above named Minnie Bliness
also personally appeared before me and being by me
firstly, separate and apart from her said husband
acknowledged and declared the foregoing instrument
then shown and explained to her by me to be her
free and voluntary act and deed, and that she did
not wish to retract the same.
Albert R. Longstaff
Notary Public
Received for record Aug 23 1877 at 10:30 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Lowery Town Clerk.
Know All Men by these Presents That I
Billing D Macomber of Charlestown R.I. hereinafter
called the Grantor in consideration of one hundred
dollars to me paid by Jennie A Read of Bitford
mass hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby give, grant,
bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantee and her
heirs and assigns forever, 2 square knots of beach land
situated in said Charlestown containing 200 square
feet bounded as follows, beginning at the highest
part of the beach land, hence Eastly 100 square feet
beach land 40 feet thence Northerly 10 feet thence
Westerly 40 feet thence Southerly 10 feet to the place of
beginning bounded on all sides by land of the
Grantor, Granting unto said Grantee with her heirs and
assigns a right to pass and repass either with or
without a horse on foot over the premises of the Grantor to
the beach hereby conveyed, takes a right of way four feet
wide to pass or pass on foot from said tract it the ocean
(but said grantee is to place no obstruction in said
right of way) Also a right to take water from the
well on the farm of the Grantor for use on said tract
To have and to hold the aforesaid premises
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