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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND etc.
COUNTY OF KENT
PROBATE COURT OF THE
CITY OF WARWICK
OFFICE OF THE CLERK
- CERTIFICATE -
I, Edward Devine, clerk of said Court, having by law the custody of the Seal, and all the records, books, documents and papers of or appertaining to said Court, hereby certify the annexed to be a true copy of the last will and testament of Thurza Watson late of Warwick, deceased, duly proved on Nov. 26, 1954 A. D.
In attestation whereof I here humeto set my hand, and have affixed the seal of said Court, this 2nd day of June A. D., 1960.
EDWARD DEVINE (L.S.)
Clerk
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Being of sound mind and having in mind all of my living relatives I bequeath to my husband William McVicar Watson all of my possessions, and properties and instruct that he administer them as he deems proper, all properties held by he and I jointly to pass to his sole ownership.
Date March 15-1951
Witness Ada N. Moss
Witness John Birch
Signed Thurza Watson
Frederick H. Bowling
(Notarial Seal) March 15, 1951
Received for record June 9th, A. D. 1960 at 10:25 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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I, William McVicar Watson, of the City of Warwick, County of Kent and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to LENTON L. BROWN and GLADYS T. BROWN, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common, with WARRANTY CONVEYANTS
Those two (2) certain lots or parcels of land, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, laid out and designated as Lots Numbers 1030 and 1031 on a "Map of Charlestown by the Sea, Charlestown, Rhode Island" owned and developed by Thomas F. Reilly, Scale 1" = 100 feet, dated July 25, 1924, K. W. Leighton, Civil Engineers, New Haven, Connecticut," and filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown. Said lots together form one tract, bounded and described as follows:
SOUTHERLY : by Lot Number 1029, as shown on said Map, fifty (50) feet, more or less;
EASTERLY : by Burdick Street, as shown on said Map, one hundred (100) feet, more or less;
NORTHERLY : by Lots Numbers 1015 and 1016, as shown on said Map, fifty (50) feet, more or less; and
WESTERLY : by Lot Number 1032, as shown on said Map, one hundred (100) feet, more or less.
This deed is subject to restrictions as contained on said Map.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed by deed of Thomas F. Reilly to Thurza May Watson, dated February 15th, 1927 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown in Book No. 26, at Page 625. The grantor having acquired title to above described premises under the terms of the will of said Thurza May Watson, copy of the same being of record in said Records of Land Evidence.
I, Mary A. Watson, wife of the grantor release to said grantees all my right of dower and all other interest in and to the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands this 8 day of June, 1960.
WILLIAM MCVICAR WATSON
MARY A. WATSON
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 554)