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We GAGE B. ELLIS and ELIZABETH K. ELLIS, husband and wife, both of Middletown Town-
ship, Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania, as Joint Tenants, for consideration paid, grant
to GEORGE W. ZABEL and MARGARET B. ZABEL, husband and wife, both of the City of Hartford, County
of Hartford and State of Connecticut, as Joint Tenants, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY
COVENANTS,
That certain tract or parcel of land with all buildings and improvements thereon
and including the furnishings therein, situated in the Town of Charlestown, County
of Washington and State of Rhode Island, furnished and described as follows:—
Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Quonochontaug East Beach Road at the
northeasterly corner of a lot owned by George P. Moulton; thence running southerly
on a stone wall; thence running northerly 3 degrees 25', west 429 along said stone
wall, bounding said farm and pasture of George P. Moulton; thence running northerly 87 degrees, 30' east
along said fence and bounding said farm and pasture of George P. Moulton, 160 feet,
more or less, along a corner of a stone wall; thence running northerly 86 degrees, 30' east
along said stone wall, bounding said farm and pasture of George P. Moulton, 150 feet,
northerly on said boundary Gen. Moulton land; thence running in a general southerly
direction along said stone wall, bounding said farm and pasture of George P. Moulton,
87 degrees 25' west, southerly bounded on said boundary On said Moulton land 688 feet,
more or less, to said Quonochontaug East Beach Road at the starting point.
Together with all the rights ways privileges and appurtenances now and in said to Charlestown
Salt Pond which are appurtenant to the above described Premises.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises conveyed to these grantors by
Josiah P. Peckham, Jr. and Bertha B. Peckham via two deeds: the first dated July
30th, 1911 and recorded in the land evidence records of said town, volume 114,
in Book 24 at Page 479; the second deed was dated April 10th, 1934 and recorded
in the land evidence records of said town, volume 151, in Book 43 at Page 600.
Reference to said deeds and the records thereof being hereby made and and the
same are made part hereof.
This conveyance is subject to a lease dated April 10th, 1944 and expiring July
10th, 1944, which is hereby assigned to the purchaser.
WITNESS our hands this 28th day of April 1944.
GAGE B. ELLIS
ELIZABETH K. ELLIS
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $14.55)
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, )
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County of Philadelphia,) ss
In Philadelphia, Penn. on the 28th day of April, 1944 before me personally appeared
Gage B. Ellis and Elizabeth K. Ellis, husband and wife, to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them eve-
cuted, to be their free act and deed.
IRABEL M. LOWRY (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Commission expires Jan. 14, 1945.
IN THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA }
County of Philadelphia,) ss
I, JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas of said county, which are
Courts of Record having a common seal, being the officer authorized by the Laws of the State of
Pennsylvania to make the following Certificate, acting by my Principal Deputy, Meredith Hanna, or
my Deputy Deputy, John J. Hoerr, do hereby certify, that I receive the acknowledgment
scribed to the certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written,
was made to me and completed in due form, and that I am a Notary Public in and for the said,
siding in the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations
and take acknowledgments, and that the signature of the Notary Public affixed to the instru-
ments to be recorded in said State of Pennsylvania, and to all whose acts, such full and
faith and credit should be given, is the genuine signature and character as elsewhere as and that I am
well acquainted with the handwriting of the said NOTARY PUBLIC and can identify the same
through the signature and character, and I further certify that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged
in conformity with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
The impression of the seal of the Notary Public is not required by law to be filed in
this office.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have entered set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court,
this 28th day of April in the Lord one of your Lord one the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four (1944).
JOHN M. SCOTT, Prothonotary
by John J. Hoerr, Second Deputy Prothonotary
Durante Absentia, Secundum Legem.
Received for record May 10th, A. D. 1944 at 3:00 o'clock, P. M. and recorded by
Town Clerk
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theory at right angles and running southerly a distance of 100.00 feet to a point; thence at
right angles and running easterly a distance of 100.00 feet to a point marking the southeast-
er corner of Lot Number 3, being the southeasterly corner of the premises herein conveyed;
thence running northerly, bounded easterly by said Lot Number 3, a distance of 100 feet
to the point of place and point of beginning. Bounded easterly by said Lot Number 3, northerly by pro-
premises in Drew Avenue, westerly by Lot Number 2, I hereby grant, convey or hereafter convey the
same may be bounded or described.
Meaning and intending to convey a portion of the premises described as Youth Tract in that certain
deed dated March 1, 1961 to Cavitt C. Gavitt and Benjamin C. Gavitt, as Joint Tenants, dated
September 12, 1954 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book
35 at page 176, and 177, and further intending that said Chris C. Gavitt has since deceased
and that I am the surviving grantee mentioned in the aforesaid deed.
I, Glenna B. Gavitt, wife of the grantor release to said grantees all my dower and right of dower and all other interest
in the aforementioned premises.
WITNESS our hands this 17th day of January 1961.
BENJAMIN C. GAVITT
GLENNA B. GAVITT
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 17th day of January, 1961 before me personally appeared Benjamin C. Gavitt and Glenna
B. Gavitt, husband and wife, both to me known and proven by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument,
and they severally acknowledged maid instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public
Received for record March 16th, A. D. 1961 at 9:50 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, GLENN F. GODDEN and MILDRED L. GODDEN, husband and wife, both of the
Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to RUSSELL W. MAJOR
and JEANNETTE C. MAJOR, husband and wife, both of the City and Province of State of Rhode Island, as JOINT
TENANTS and not as Tenants-in-Common, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
Those two (2) certain lots or parcels of land situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, as shown and delineated on lots bearing Numbers 582 (five hundred eighty-two) and 583 (five hundred eighty-
three) on that certain map or plat entitled, "Map of Charlestown by the Sea, Charlestown, Rhode Island, owned and devel-
oped by Thomas P. Reilly, Scale 1" = 100 feet, dated July 25, 1954, L. W. Leighton, Civil Engineer, New Haven, Connecticut,"
and filed in the Office of the Town Clerk, said Town of Charlestown. Said lots together form one tract bounded as follows:
SOUTHERLY : by Thomas Street, as shown on said Map, fifty (50) feet, more or less;
WESTERLY : by Lot Number 584, as shown on said Map, one hundred ten (110) feet, more or less;
NORTHERLY : by Lots Numbers 545 and 526, as shown on said Map, two fifty (50) feet, more or less and
EASTERLY : by Lot Number 581, as shown on said Map, one hundred ten (110) feet, more or less.
This deed is subject to restrictions as contained on said Map.
Being the same premises conveyed by deed of Pauline L. O'Connell to these Grantors, dated October 24, 1960 and
reco-ded in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown, in Book Number 37 at Pages 442 and 443.
We, Glenn F. Godden and Mildred L. Godden, husband and wife, release to said Grantees all our right of curtegy
and dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands this 16th day of March, 1961.
GLENN F. GODDEN
MILDRED L. GODDEN
(DOCUMENTARY STAMP, 55¢)