The instrument's own words
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Know all men by these presents, that S. Thomas S.
Arnold of the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, and State of New York
hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of ten dollars and
other good and valuable considerations to me Frances Paula
Heeks of said Borough of Brooklyn hereinafter called the Grantee, the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain,
sell and convey unto the said Grantee, and her heirs and assigns
forever a certain farm or tract of land with a dwelling house, barn
and other buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the town of
Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at the North east corner at a stone
bound set in the ground at the East side of the East Road and at land of Abbie and
Sarah Hopkins, thence North 24° 30' East 257 feet to the end of a
stone wall; thence S 23° 25' E, 536 feet to the corner of a wall; thence SE
79° E, 38 feet to a corner; thence Southerly 584 feet more or less to a line
bound at land of said Thomas S Arnold, bounding westerly on land of
said Grantor and Col. Ben Hopkins, thence Easterly bounding easterly on land of
said Thomas S Arnold, North 10° W 515 feet more or less to land of said Thomas
S Arnold, thence Northerly 50 feet more or less to a drive way or passageway
thence Westerly 50 feet and Northerly bounding easterly on said
drive way or passageway to a bound 100 feet from the East Road,
thence Northerly 50 feet and thence Northerly 110 feet to the last stone, thence
Westerly bounding Southerly on East Road to the place of beginning, or
however otherwise bounded. The said Grantee her heirs and assigns
are to make and maintain all fence lines between the land hereby
conveyed and land of the Grantor unless agreed to turn live stock.
The said Grantee her heirs and assigns shall have a right of passage
over the "crumb roads" mentioned in letter directions, the said
Grantee is to have a right to pass over land of Grantor to the shore
of Charlestown Pond at such location as the said Grantor may
direct for and during the natural life of said Grantor and upon
her decease such right shall not revert to any other person,
being a part of the property which the Grantor holds by deed
from Mary L. Bundock dated September 20th 1919 and
recorded in Town Clerk's office in said Charlestown in Land
Evidence Book No. 19, page 197.
To have and to hold, the aforesaid premises, with all
the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, with unt and
to the use of the said Grantee, and her heirs and assigns forever.
And I, the said Grantor, do hereby for myself and for my
heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said
Grantee and her heirs and assigns that I am lawfully
seized in fee simple of the said granted premises, that
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224 the same are free from all encumbrances that I have good right
full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in
manner as aforesaid, that the said Beantee and her heirs and assigns
shall by their presence at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly
have and enjoy the said premises, and that I, and my heirs,
executors and administration shall warrant and
defend the same to the said Beantee and her heirs and assigns for
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
And for the consideration aforesaid I, Mary H. Arnold wife
of the said Thomas L. Arnold do hereby release all my right of
dower in and to the said granted premises unto the said Beantee
and her heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 5th day of December in the year of our lord one
thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
Signed and sealed in presence of Thomas L. Arnold L.S.
George B. Corish Mary H. Arnold L.S.
Revenues Stamps
$4
State of Rhode Island
county of Washington
Ss.
In Westerly town on the 5th day of December A.D.
1919 before me personally appeared Thomas L. Arnold and
Mary H. Arnold his wife well known to me known by me to
be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they
acknowledged said instrument by them executed, to be their free
act and deed. George B. Corish Notary Public
Received for record November 10@ 1919 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George B. Corish Town Clerk