The instrument's own words
page 1
231.
I, FRANK E. BLIVEN, of the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, being unmarried, for consideration paid, grant to HOWARD F. BLIVEN, of
said Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, with WARRANTY COVENANTS, a certain tract or parcel of
land, with the dwelling house, barn, sheds, hen houses, and all other buildings and improvements
thereon standing, lying and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of
Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:—
Beginning at the northwesternmost corner of the "Crumb Woodlot", so called, which point is
also the northwesternmost corner of the "Crumb Woodlot", so called, at the corner
of two stone walls in the easterly line of land of the Sullivan Granite Company;
thence running in an easterly direction along a stone wall to the northwesternmost
corner of land heretofore conveyed from Frank E. Bliven to Charles Bliven;
thence running in a southeasterly direction along a stone wall to another stone wall
and the southeasterly corner of said land; thence running in a southeasterly direction
in an easterly direction along the last mentioned stone wall to the southeasterly
corner of said Charles Bliven's land; thence running in a northeasterly direction
along the easterly line of said Charles L. Bliven's land to a stone wall at the
northwesterly corner of said Charles L. Bliven's land; thence running in a northeasterly
direction in a straight line in part along a stone wall and in part through swamp land,
to the land of the within grantor; thence running in a northeasterly direction
in a southeasterly direction along the westerly line of said Park Commission land
to a drill hole in a stone wall; thence running in a southeasterly direction
westerly direction along said last named stone wall, bounded southerly by other
land of the within grantor, to land of the Sullivan Granite Company; thence running
in a northerly direction along the boundary line of said Sullivan Granite Company,
to a pine post set in ground at the northeast corner of said Sullivan Granite
Company, in lot 102 of the Charlestown Land Evidence Records; thence running in a
line, in part along a stone wall and in part through swamp land, to the easterly line
of the Old Klondike Road; thence running in a northerly direction along said road,
westerly in part by the easterly line of the Old Klondike Road, and in part by a
stone wall along the boundary line of land of the Sullivan Granite Company, to the
point of place and point of beginning.
Said property is part of the "Crumb Woodlot", County Land, Wrenbit, and Lot 18,
said land was conveyed to the current owner by the following named deeds, viz.: deed from Alexander
G. Crumb dated Marcy 12, 1909, recorded in Book No. 102, page 175 and 176 of the Land
Evidence Records of said Town; deed from Ezra Foote et al. to Frank E. Bliven
dated July 6, 1911 and recorded in Book No. 17, page 112 of said Charlestown Land
Evidence Records; and finally a deed from Ezra Foote et al. dated March 29, 1913 recorded
in Book No. 17 page 419 of said Charlestown Land Evidence Records.
It is my wish and desire and hereby request that the premises hereby conveyed,
shall hereafter be known as the "Frank E. Bliven Homestead".
I hereby reserve for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns
forever, a right of way on the north side of the aforementioned appointment to all other land
now owned by me located northerly of the premises hereby conveyed, over the Cedar
Swamp Path, so called, until such time as the said premises hereby conveyed.
This conveyance is made subject to the right of way heretofore granted to said
Charles Bliven over the premises hereby conveyed, leading from said premises here-
tofore conveyed by me to him, to said Old Klondike Road.
I hereby reserve for myself for and during the rest of my natural lifetime, the
exclusive right to the use, occupancy, benefits, rents and profits of the premises
hereby conveyed.
WITNESS my hand this 24th day of June, 1944.
FRANK E. BLIVEN.
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington }
In Charlestown, on the 24th day of June, 1944, before me personally appeared FRANK E.
BLIVEN, to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and he
acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public
Received for record June 24th, A. D. 1944 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk
The page as recorded
