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Before me personally appeared Emily B. Sound and E. Emma H. Sound
who being duly sworn did acknowledge and agree that I was to be the person
preparing the following instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument
to be their act and deed.
Eugene B. Braxton
clerk of the District Court,
Received for record Apr 13th 1847 at 4 o'clock P.M.
and entered in the records of this town.
To all People to whom these presents shall come, Greeting;
Know ye that I, Antonio Mays at present of Cononia in the State of
Connecticut formerly of Providence in the State of Rhode Island seized, for the
consideration of ten dollars and other considerations received to my full
satisfaction of my sole wife and heirs causes moves of legislation in the State of
Rhode Island do grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said
Grantee to the married indent (See in my note in the original deed)
and to that certain house situated in Cononia furnished with a dwelling
house barn shed other buildings and unfenced lands therein described
and bounded on the north by lands of nice L. Beach and on the East
partly by land of Mattie R. Beane and partly by land of Edwin G. Hlynn
on the South by lands of said nice L. Beach and on the West partly
by the highway and partly by land of said nice L. Beach, a highway
crosses the premises from East to West, and being the same premises
conveyed by Jonathan James to James and Catherine Mays by deed dating
date the fourth day of February 1911 and recorded in records of deeds
in the town of Kestlebottom R.I. in Book 1871 at page 38, silence
to the same being hereby had and made, and the same is deemed a
part hereof.
To have and to hold the above granted and
bargained premises with the appurtenances thereof, unto him the said
Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their proper uses
and behoof. And also I the said Grantor do for myself and my
heirs, executors and administrators covenant with the said Grantee and
his heirs and assigns, that at and unto the meaning of these presents
I make full seisin of the premises, as a good widespread estate in
fee simple, and have good right to bargain and sell the same in
manner and form as is above written; and that the same is
free from all incumbrances whatsoever. In witness whereof I
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the said Grantor do by these presents bind myself and my heirs never to molest
and disturb the Grantee executed and bargained premises to whom the said
Grantee and his heirs and assigns as owner in fee simple all claims and demands
whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 13th day two of September A.D. 1917.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Robert S. Moore
Arthur B. Richmond.
Antonie Moore. LS,
State of Rhode Island
ss.
County of Providence ss. City of Providence September 13th 1917
The foregoing affidavit, witnessed today before me and officer of the following
instrument and acknowledged the same to be his act acted and auth
enticated.
Attest R. H. Richmond
Justice of the Peace,
Received for record September 13th 1917 at 9 oclock AM,
and recorded by George A. Moore Town Clerk
This Indenture of lease, entered into on the 19th day of September
A.D. 1914, by and between Charles H. Comstock of the town of Johnston
in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island hereinafter called
the Lessor, and several R. G. Moore, George A. Moore and Henry G. Clark,
trustees, of the town of Providence, in the county of Providence in
said State doing business as a trust and monetary association under
the name of "Columbia Savings and Loan Company" hereinafter called
the Lessee. Witnesseth that the said lessor does hereby demise,
and lease unto said lessee, that certain tract or parcel of land
situated partly in the town of Johnston and partly in the
town of East Greenwich in the county of Washington and state of
Rhode Island, with all the buildings and improvements thereon,
together with all the privileges appurtenant thereto, known as
the "Commercial Water Power" and mill "tenanted and leased as
follows: "Beginning at the southeast corner of the point where stone
abutment of a first line running the Southside road and running
Northerly bounding beauty or bounds of the leased Estate a distance
of one hundred thirty three and six 1/2 cents (133.6) feet to the corner
of a fence, thence running an interior angle of ninety degrees
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