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acknowledgment, proof or affidavit, a Notary duly commissioned and sworn and residing in said county, and was as much, an officer of said state, as the authority by the laws thereof, to take and certify the same, as well as to note and certify the proof and acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments in writing to be recorded in said state, and that full and faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts certified, as well as to the seal of his office, and that the law presumes that the signature to the attached certificate is his genuine signature. The impression of the seal of said person who took said acknowledgment and/or proof, is not required by law to be filed in this office.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 3 day of Aug., 1961.
G. M. SIMMONS (L.S.)
Clerk Circuit Court
Received for record August 8th, A. D. 1961 at 9:30 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, HAROLD M. LEWIS of the Hopkinton, County of Washington and state of Rhode Island have for consideration paid, grant to RUSSELL N. PERRY and SHIRLEY M. PERRY, husband and wife, both of the Town of Hopkinton, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, WITH WARRANTY COVENANTS
[Indenture]
The following described real estate located in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, on East Beach Road, Charlestown, and described as follows:
Beginning at the southeaster corner of the premises herein granted at a point on the north side of a lane or passageway, adjoining lot No. 38, (on plan hereinbefore referred to) thence northerly running westerly 50 feet, thence easterly 100 feet to East Beach Road; thence southerly, thence westerly 50 feet, thence southerly 100 feet to point and place of beginning, the same being Lot 39 on a plan of land of James A. Burdick, made by A. H. Emerson, civil engineer, dated 1936 and to be filed in the Town Clerk's office of said Charlestown with a right way to the Salt Pond, so-called, over and across other lands of said James A. Burdick as outlined on said plan.
Reference also being hereby made and had to map of land of said James A. Burdick, showing survey by Leon L. Holland, civil engineer, outlining and defining right of way to said Salt Pond, dated 21st day of August, 1957, and recorded in the Town Clerk's office on July 1, 1957, which said plan is on file or to be filed in the Town Clerk's office of said Charlestown reference is hereby made and had and made for further or more particular description of the premises hereby conveyed.
Moreover survey to describe Lot 40 of property conveyed to this grantor by deed of James A. Burdick, the said deed being dated August 27, 1903 and recorded in the Land Evidence Records in Book No. 21 at Page 1, in Charlestown, Rhode Island.
WITNESS my hand this 3rd day of August 1961.
HAROLD M. LEWIS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Hopkinton on the 3rd day of August 1961 before me personally appeared HAROLD M. LEWIS 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.
LAWRENCE W. KENTON (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
Notary Public
Received for record August 9th, A. D. 1961 at 3:45 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk