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250 I, Mary B. Stark, of the City of New York, County of New York, for con- sideration paid, grant to The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: A certain wood lot known as the "City Lot" situated in the Town of Charlestown, consisting by estimation about 30 acres, be the same more or less, and bounded substantially as follows-- easterly by land formerly owned by William Greene; southerly by land formerly owned by Samuel Stanton; westerly by the Sheffield land; northerly by the land of the heirs of Samuel Niles and others -- said lot being conveyed to my grantor's ancestors by deed from Joseph R. Lewis and dated January 19, 1818 -- excepting the lot sold by Jared Babcock to Samuel Burdick by deed dated June 10, 1841, to all of which deeds and plats I refer here but for a more full and particular description of the premises herein conveyed. Reference is also had to a deed of this same property given by Welcome B. Babcock and others under seal during August 1895 recorded in Book No. 12 page 185, Record of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., being the lot conveyed to James Buckner Speed by Ethan Pendleton by deed May 24, 1930, Book 24 Page 199, and by James Buckner Speed and Teresa Thompson Speed, his wife, to Mary B. Stark, Book 25 Page 76 of said Records. And I, Mary B. Stark, the grantor aforesaid, hereby covenant that I am un married. WITNESS my hand this 7th day of January 1936 MARY B. STARK
Received for record January 21st, A. D. 1936 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk.
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The purpose of this deed is such that no revenue stamps are required.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 2nd day of January,
A. D. 1940, at Westerly, Rhode Island.
ARTHUR M. WEEDEN (SEAL)
STATE OF RHODES ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly, in said County, on the 2nd day of January, 1940, before me personally
appeared Arthur M. Weeden, unmarried, to me known and known by me to be the person executing
the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his own
free act and deed.
HERBERT W. RATHBUN
Notary Public
Received for record January 3rd, A. D. 1940 at 4:10 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, Howard L. Hitchcock, of the Town of Richmond;
administrator de bonis son of the estate of Charles J. Greene, late of the Town of Richmond,
deceased and insolvent; and the heirs of the Town of South Kingstown, namely S. Fannie Clarke,
late of said South Kingstown, deceased, having received full payment and satisfaction from
Daniel J. Walsh of the Town of Westerly, in the next part of this indenture, from the sum of Mary
A. Belio to Charles J. Greene and S. Fannie Clarke, dated the third day of December, A. D. 1915,
recorded in the plat books of the Town of Westerly in Plat Book 1, page 11, and in the Land Records,
8 at pages 93 to 96, and in the Records of Land Evidence in said Town of Charlestown in Mort-
gage Book 11 at page 11, we do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim and release unto
the said Daniel J. Walsh and James Walsh, his son, and their heirs and assigns forever, the
premises thereby conveyed.
And we covenant to and with the person making said payment, that we are the present owners
of said mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 13th day of February,
A. D. 1931 [1931]
In presence of:
J.O.C.
S.T.G.
H.L.H.
James S. Clarke [Seal]
Sidney T. Clarke [Seal]
Howard L. Hitchcock [Seal]
Administrator de bonis nan
of the estate of Charles J. Greene
Received for record January 9th, A. D. 1940 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk