The instrument's own words
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have hereunto set our hands and seals this 24th day of November
in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and two.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Lobel Edgar Mills
E. J. Bunker
Olney B. Gound L.S.
Emma R. Gound L.S.
State of New York
County of New York S.S.
In New York City on the twenty fourth day of
November A.D. 1902 before me personally appeared Olney B. Gound
and Emma R. Gound his wife to me known and known by
me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and
each acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be
their free act and deed.
Of which witness of
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal
this 24th day of November 1802
Lobel Edgar Mills L.S.
Commissioner of Deeds for Rhode
Island in New York City S.S.
1159/17 Broadway N. Y. City
Received for record March 26 1903 at 3 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George E. Brown Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that I
Adolfina Frykoidal, of Pittsfield, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts, in consideration of the sum of Two hundred
Dollars paid by Jacob Smith and Edward T. Rice
both of said Pittsfield, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever
quitclaim unto the said Jacob Smith and Edward T.
Rice, their heirs and assigns forever, all the right title,
interest property, claim and demand which we now
have, or of right ought to have whatever, in and to a certain
tract of beachland with the buildings and improvements
thereon standing situated in the town of Narragansett, in
the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island
containing 12800 square feet and bounded as follows,
Beginning at the highest part of the beach bank
and eighty feet (80) easterly from the Southeast corner
of land of Warren S. Merritt, thence Easterly along said
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394 beach forty (40) feet thence Northerly seventy (70) feet thence
Northerly forty (40) feet and thence Southerly seventy (70) feet
to place of beginning, Bounded Northerly, Easterly, Southerly
and Westerly by lands of Billings & Macomber, and being
the same premises described in Land Evidences of said
Charlestown Liber 13 Folio 24
To have and to hold the same, with all the rights,
privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining unto
and to the use of the said Robert Binnick and Edward F.
Rice and their heirs and assigns forever.
And I the aforesaid Adolphia Fryksdall for myself
and for my heirs executors and administrators, do
covenant with the said Robert Binnick and Edward F.
Rice and their heirs and assigns that I will warrant
and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said
Binnick and Rice and their heirs and assigns forever,
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming by through or under me.
In Testimony whereof I the said Adolphia
Fryksdall a single and unmarried woman have hereunto
set my hand and seal this thirty first day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
three
Signed and sealed in presence of
Michael S. Einer Adolphia Fryksdall LS.
State of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire SS.
In Pittsfield on the 31st day of March
AD 1903, before me personally appeared Adolphia
Fryksdall to me known and known by me to be the
party executing the foregoing instrument and she
acknowledged said instrument by her signature to be
her free act and deed. Michael S. Einer
Notary Public LS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire SS.
I Frank H. Caudle clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court which is a Court of Record for the County
and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify that
Michael S. Einer Esquire whose name is subscribed
to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the
annexed Instrument and thereon written, was at the
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time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public within
and for said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who is commissioned
and sworn, and residing in said county of Berkshire, and duly
authorized to take the same, and an officer authorized by
the laws of said commonwealth to take the acknowledgment or
proof of deed to be recorded herein, and that I am well
acquainted with the handwriting of said Notary Public, and
verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of
acknowledgment is genuine.
For my testimony hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court at Pittsfield this 31st day of
March 1903. Frank L. Gamble Clerk SS
Received for record April 2nd 1903 at 2:30 o'clock P.M.,
and recorded by George Cross Town Clerk
Know all Men by these Presents, That I
Iradene E. Church of the City and County of New London,
State of Connecticut, niece of Joseph B. Church late of
Charlestown R.I. deceased, in consideration of the sum
of five dollars paid to me by William G. Cross of Charlestown,
County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, behind the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby
remise, release and forever Quitclaim unto him the
said William G. Cross his heirs and assigns forever,
all the right title interest property claims and demand
which I now have or of right ought to have, or claim
in and to a certain lot of marsh land situated in the
town of Charlestown aforesaid, containing three acres more
or less, bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest
corner of land of Wm H. Head by a small creek, thence
easterly by said creek six chains, thence southerly by
said creek to a cart path, thence westerly by said path
to the channel, hence southerly by said channel to first
bound however otherwise bounded.
To have and to hold the same, with all the rights,
privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining unto
and to the use of him the said William G. Cross his
heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof, I the afore-
named Iradene E. Church for myself and for my heirs,