The instrument's own words
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hands and seals this thirty first day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and two that
signed and sealed in presence of
Heeden J Hushen Mary A. O'Connell L.S.
Whiting Metcalf Patrick O'Connell L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington Sc
In Richmond on the thirty first day
of May AD 1902 before me personally appeared Patrick
O'Connell and Mary A. O'Connell to me known and
known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument
and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed to
be their free act and deed Whiting Metcalf Notary Public
Received for record June 3d 1902 at 5 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George G Cross Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That I,
Edwin H Kenyon of Charlestown, County of Washington
State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the Grantor
in consideration of One hundred dollars to me paid
by George H Goodhue and Mary A. O'Connell Trustees
of the St Marys Catholic Aid Society of Carolina R.I.
hereinafter called the Grantees the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant bargain,
sell and convey unto the said Grantees and their heirs
and assigns forever, one half acre of land bounded
as follows beginning at a point on the highway near
the village of Carolina in said Charlestown at the south
east corner of land of William Groves running southely
on the highway four (4) rods, thence Easterly twenty (20)
rods, thence Northerly four (4) rods, thence Westerly twenty
(20) rods to point of beginning, said parcel of land being
a part of the lot deeded to Grantor by Josephine A James
daughter under the will of George G James deceased,
It is hereby stipulated that the Grantees shall build
and maintain a line fence between land of
Grantor and Grantees forever. To have and
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to hold the aforesaid premises with all the privilege and
appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said
grantees, and their heirs and assigns forever. And I the
said grantor, do hereby for myself and for my heirs, executors
and administrators covenant with the said grantees and their
heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of
the said granted premises; that the same is free from all
incumbrances, that I have right, full power and
lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner as
aforesaid; that the said grantees and their heirs and assigns
shall be by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and
quietly have and enjoy the said premises, and that I the
said grantor will, and my heirs, executors and administrators
shall warrant and defend the same to the said grantees
and their heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claim
and demands of all persons.
And for the consideration aforesaid I Emma L. Kenyon
wife of said grantor do hereby release all my right of dower
in and to the said granted premises unto the said grantees
and their heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and two.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Whiting Heukelf Edwin A. Kenyon L.S.
Median J. Lusker Emma L. Kenyon L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington SS
In Charlestown on the thirty first
day of May AD, 1902 before me personally appeared
Edwin A. Kenyon and Emma L. Kenyon to me known
and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing
instrument; And they acknowledged said instrument
by them executed to be their free act and deeds.
Whiting Heukelf Notary Public
Received for record June 3, 1902 at 5 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George L. Cox Town Clerk
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