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I, Richard Lewis Barber, formerly of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, now a resident of the City of Ventura, California for consideration paid,
grant to adelaide B. Richmond of East Greenwich, County of Kent and State of Rhode Island, with
WARRANTY COVENANTS:
That certain real estate with building and improvements thereon, situated
in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and
bounded as follows:
a certain lot or parcel of land situated in said Charlestown, at Quonoccon-
taug, called and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on
the easterly shore of Quonoccontaug pond, said point being the northeasterly corner
of the instant hereby conveyed lot, thence running southerly, through the pasture
of John E. Taylor; thence running easterly, bounded northerly by said taylor land
25 1/2 poles to a proposed street; thence running southerly, bounded easterly by said
taylor land 30 poles; thence running easterly in a line 130 feet distant from and parallel to
said street 130 feet; thence running southerly, a distance of 175 feet, more or less, to the shore of said pond;
said taylor land, a distance of 175 feet, more or less, to the shore of said pond;
thence northerly, bounded westerly by the lot of S. H. Howery, Jr. as recorded on
September 14th, 1935 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of
Charlestown in book 24, page 211.
Also a right-of-way, in common with others, for foot travel only, over and
across a certain ten foot parcel of land, facing the Atlantic ocean, said parcel being
bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of said ten
foot parcel, being the intersection of the line between the lot of C. L. Crapo and the line
beginning at the ground at the northeasterly corner of land formerly of Lila C. Crapo; thence
running southerly 100 feet to the shore of the ocean; thence running easterly 10 feet along the shore
and continuing to the sea; thence running westerly 10 feet; thence running northerly in
a line parallel with the first line mentioned above, a distance of 100 feet to a point
distant therefrom to the northeasterly corner of said right of way thence running northerly
easterly to the point and place of beginning bounded easterly by land of Lila C. Crapo;
thence southerly, by the Atlantic ocean; bounded westerly by land of M. B. Richmond and
land of Emma R. Dow. Together with the right to cross and recess at all times over
and across a line 10 feet wide, running northerly from the easterly boundary of the above
highway across land of Sophia E. Howery and land of Emma R. Dow.
Meaning and intending to convey the same premises as conveyed to Richard
Lewis Barber by Charlestown Land Evidence Records book 23, page 229, dated July 22nd, 1939, and
recorded in the Land Evidence Records of said Town of Charlestown in Book 24 on Page 55.
I, Hope M. Barber wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of dower
and all other interest in the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands this 1st day of June 1944.
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $2.75)
RICHARD L. BARBER
HOPE M. BARBER
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
County of Ventura } :
In Ventura Calif. on the 1st day of June, 1944, before me personally appeared Richard
Lewis Barber and Hope M. Barber to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the fore-
going instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act
and deed.
WELLE E. HOLT (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
County of Ventura ) ss.
I, L. H. HALLOWELL, County Clerk of the County of Ventura, and also Clerk of the Superior
Court for the said county, as the same being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Welle E. Holt
whose signature is subscribed to the certificate of acknowledgment of the annexed instrument
and thereon written, was, in the presence of me, duly sworn and authorized by the laws
and for said County of Ventura, dwelling in said County commissioned and sworn and authorized by the
laws of said State to take and subscribe such oaths and affirmations in said County. And further
that to be sealed acknowledgment is a true copy of the notary, and verily believe that the signa-
ture to said certificate of proof of acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof; I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court,
this 1st day of June, A. D. 1944 (OFFICIAL SEAL)
L.E. HALLOWELL, Clerk
By Della Riggins, Deputy Clerk
Received for record June 12th, A. D. 1944 at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
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