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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME---GREETING:
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a corporation created by Act of the General Assembly
of the State of Rhode Island, located and having its principal office and place of business
in the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as Executor of the
last will and testament of Susan Champlain, late of the Town of Charlestown, in said County
and State, deceased, acting herein under the authority given to it in and by Paragraph TENth
of said will, all of which is more fully appears by the records of the Probate Court of the said
Town of Charlestown, wherein said will was admitted to probate, and in consideration of the
sum of eighty-five ($85.00) Dollars received to its full satisfaction of STANLEY Q. BROWN
and MADALIN J. BROWN, husband and wife, both of said Town of Charlestown, does hereby give, grant,
bargain, sell and confirm unto the said Stanley Q. Brown and to the sur-
vivor of them as joint tenants, and unto such survivor's heirs and assigns, all the right,
title, interest, claim and demand which said The Washington Trust Company as such Executor has
or ought to have, and which said Susan Champlain at the time of her death had in and to
the following described real estate, to wit:
A certain wood lot improved located in the Town of Charlestown, county of Washington
and State of Rhode Island then and there being approximately forty (40) acres be the same
more or less, commencing at the northeasterly corner of said town street at the highway;
thence easterly ninety seven and one half feet to a stone wall; and thence northerly along said
westerly on said Larkin's land to start of Town Steadman et ux; thence north ern-
orth east on said Steadman's land to a stone wall; and thence northerly along said stone wall,
and thence easterly on said easterly line had to the corner first stated. Being the second
tract described in a deed from Susan Champlain, late of said town, Mary A. Agnes et al
dated September 8, 1883, and recorded in Book #11 page 191 in the Charlestown
town Land Records Province Record.
Said premises are held subject to all liens and other taxes, assessments and
charges, if any, which constitute a lien thereon and the within grantees, by them
accepting of this deed, hereby assume and agree to pay said taxes, assessments and
charges, if any.
to HAVE and TO HOLD the above granted and bargainned premises with the appurtenances
unto the said Stanley Q. Brown and Madalin J. Brown and unto the survivor of them, and
unto such survivor's heirs and assigns, to their proper use and behoof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said the Washington Trust Company as Executor as aforesaid, has
caused its name to be hereto signed and its seal hereunto affixed by Thomas Perry, its Vice
President and Trust Officer, and by Alfred C. Baker, its Treasurer, both duly authorized in the
premises this twenty seventh day of April, A. D. 1939.
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY (Corporate Seal)
Executor under the Will of Susan Champlain, by
THOMAS PERRY
its Vice President and Trust Officer
ALFRED C. BAKER
its Treasurer
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
County of Washington
In the Town of Westerly in said County, this 27th day of April, A. D. 1939, personally
appeared before me the above named Thomas Perry and Alfred C. Baker, to me personally known
and known to me to be the Vice President - Trust Officer and Treasurer, respectively, of The
Washington Trust Company, Executor, under the Will of Susan Champlain, declared, and known by me
to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by them
signed, to be their free act and deed in their said capacities, and the free act and deed of The
Washington Trust Company as Executor as aforesaid.
DAVID ROBERTSON, Notary Public.
The circumstances of this deed are such that no revenue stamps are required.
Received for record May 18th, A. D. 1939 at 9:00 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by
Town Clerk