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before me personally appeared Lola M. Fromm and George R. Fromm
wife and husband to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged
said instrument, their executor, to be their free act and deed,
Ezraell E. Whipple
Notary Public
Received for record August 18th 1931 at 10 o'clock AM,
and recorded by George LaCourse Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents, that I Annie
H. Otis, of Charlestown in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island (unmarried) hereinafter called the Grantor
in consideration of ten dollars to paid by Arthur W. Porter
and Grace M. Porter husband and wife, of the City and County
of Providence in said State, hereinafter called the Grantees, the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant,
bargain, sell and convey unto the said Grantees, and their
heirs and assigns forever a certain tract of land situated in
said Charlestown containing by estimations one acre more or
less with a dwelling house therein standing and bounded
as follows, on the North and South by land of Robert Browning,
on the East by land of William R. Browning and north west and
on the South by the Old Road or however otherwise bounded,
To have and to hold, the aforementioned premises,
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging,
unto and to the use of the said Grantees, and their heirs
and assigns, forever. And I the said Grantor, do hereby
for myself and my heirs, executors and administrators
covenant with the said Grantees and their heirs and assigns
That I am lawfully seised in fee simple of the said granted
premises; that the same are free from all incumbrances
That I have good right full power and lawful authority
to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; That
the said Grantees their heirs and assigns shall by these
presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly hold and
enjoy the said premises and that I the said Grantor will and
my heirs executors and administrators, shall warrant and
defend the same to the said Grantees and their heirs and
assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of
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all persons. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this 11th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and twenty one,
signed and sealed in presence of
George LaCroix Anne A. Hayes L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington.
On this eleventh day of August A.D.
1921 before me personally appeared Anne A. Hayes to me known and
known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument
and she acknowledged said instrument be her executed, to be her
free act and deed.
George LaCroix
Notary Public
Received for record August 11th 1921 at 9:30 o'clock AM
and Recorded by George LaCroix, Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that we
Yale, Peter Eugene and Josephine Reugene his wife of Richmond
in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, in
consideration of Ten dollars to us paid by Abraham Phillips Stokes
of 88 Moore Street, New York, N.Y. the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim
unto the said Abraham Phillips Stokes all that piece of
land situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island and bounded as follows:
Beginning at the center of Indian Cedar Stream creek,
where it crosses the King Hill Road, and following the
center of said brook in a generally South easterly direction
to a point opposite a cement monument near an old
slump on the bank of the brook; thence South seventy one
(71) degrees, twenty (20) minutes West to a stone post about
one hundred eighty (180) feet; thence South forty nine (49)
degrees, forty three (43) minutes South to another stone post
one hundred twenty eight (128) feet; thence South, eighteen (18)
degree twenty (20) minutes North to an old cedar stump
near a ledge; thence in a North easterly direction four
hundred and twenty (420) feet and thence in a south
westerly direction ten hundred and eighty five (1085)
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