The instrument's own words
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502 Know All men by these Presents, That I J.
Billings D Macomber of Charlestown in the County of
Washington, State of Rhode Island, in consideration of
the sum of Seventy five dollars to me paid by Herbert
E Barney of East Providence, County of Providence states
as aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged to
hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto him
the said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns forever
all the right title interest property claim and demand
which I now have or of right ought to have, or claim, in and
to a certain tract of beach land situated at Unavailable
in said Charlestown containing 4200 square feet bounded
as follows beginning at a stake at the beach banks at
the Southeast corner of land of H Wales and Sullivan he
Parrott, thence Northerly bounded Westerly by said Parrotts land
twenty feet, thence Easterly sixty feet and thence Southerly
seventy feet to a stake in said beach banks, thence
Westerly along said beach bank Sixty feet to the place
of beginning bounded Northerly Easterly and Southerly by
land of the state or others bounded with a right
of way to pass and repass with horses or on foot across
the farm of the grantor to his beach Also a right to take
water from the well on said farm,
I have and by these the same, with all the rights
privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertaining,
unto and to the use of him the said Herbert E Barney
his heirs and assigns forever And I the aforementioned
Billings D Macomber for myself and for my heirs,
executors and administrators do covenant with the said
Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns, that I will
warrant and defend the aforesetcribed premises unto the
said Herbert E Barney his heirs and assigns forever
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
claiming by me, through or under me.
In testimony whereof I have executed set my hand
and seal this 3d day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and three.
Signed and sealed in presence of
George own L Cross Billings D Macomber SS
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Charlestown on the 3d day
October Ad 1903 before me personally appeared Billings
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D. December to me known and known by me to be the party executing
the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by
him executed to be his free act and deed
George G Cross
Notary Public
Received for record October 5 1903 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George G Cross Town Clerk
Know all MEN by these Presents That I
Everett A Briggs of Hopkinton in the County of Washington
in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor,
in consideration of ten (10) Dollars to me paid by Ruth
A. Briggs of said Hopkinton hereinafter called the Grantee
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give,
grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Ruth Grantee
and her heirs and assigns forever, that certain tract of
land and the buildings and improvements thereon, situated
in the Town of Charlestown in said County, it being lot
No two (2) on a plat of land conveyed by deed from
Samuel F. Babcock and others to Hobart A. Carter dated
September 24th 1880 and recorded in Land Evidence of said
Charlestown, Book No 110 Page 553 & 555, as also said plat
is recorded in said Land Evidence at page 557, and does
in a deed from Many Le Boys to this grantor recorded in
said Land Evidence in Book No 113 page 247, to which
deed plat and the record hereof reference is hereby made,
Also an one eighth (1/8) undivided interest in a street
running through said tract from formerly of said
Babcock and others to the sea, said street being thirty
five (35) feet wide, and bounded on the east by Lot No 2
land on the West by Lot No 3 as shown on said plat; the
said Ruth A. Briggs her heirs and assigns to be held in
for one eighth (1/8) of the expense of keeping said street and
gate or gates thereon in repair, Reserving also to said
Thornel F. Babcock her heirs and assigns a right to
peaceably pass and repass at all times along the street
laid out on said plat for the common use of all the
purchasers of lots upon said tract.
To have and to hold the above granted premises
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto