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TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME --- GREETING:
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a corporation created by Act of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, located and having its principal office and place of business in the Town of Westerly, county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as Executor of the last Will and testament of Susan Champlain, late of the Town of Charlestown, in said County and State, deceased, acting herein under the authority given to it in and by Paragraph TENTH of said will, all of which more fully appears by the records of the Probate Court of the said Town of Charlestown, therein said will was admitted to probate, and in consideration of the sum of their Thousand Dollars ($1000.00) Dollars received to its full satisfaction of MILTON DUCKERMAN, of said Town of Charlestown, does hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and transfer unto the said Milton Duckerman, and his heirs and assigns, all the right, title, interest, claim and demand which said The Washington Trust Company as such Executor has or ought to have, and which said Susan Champlain at the time of her death had and in the to the following described real estate, to wit:
That certain tract of land, containing approximately 60 acres, be the same, more or less, with a dwelling house and all other buildings thereon situated, lying in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, bounded on the South by the South westerly corner of the road known as the Highway, thence running northerly partly on said road northerly or from the heirs of Edward George, and running northerly and then easterly on the boundary of the land belonging to the same course on said Champlain's land to a ditch thence in an easterly course on said Champlain's land to a brook thence in a northerly direction on said brook to the highway thence easterly on said track to the highway from first mentioned site premises described as the first tract in a deed to said Nathan M. Champlain from Harry M. Magee, dated July 11, 1911 and recorded in Book 141 page 153 and also the land described in 191 and 192 of the Land Records evidence of said Town of Charlestown, excepting the portion thereafter sold to the Rhode Island State Board of Agriculture and the Rhode Island State Seed Company, Inc., by deed dated June 11, 1921 and recorded in Book 19 pages 459 and 463 of said Charlestown, and excepting the portion of the above described land conveyed by said Susan Champlain to South County Public Service Company by instrument date November 24, 1928, recorded Book 21 page 385 of Charlestown Land Records.
Said premises are sold subject to all Tax and other any taxes, assessments and charges, if any, arising from the ownership and the possession and the use and occupation of the land, by acceptance of this deed, hereby assumes and agrees to pay said taxes, assessments, and charges, if any.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Milton Duckerman, and unto his heirs and assigns, to him and their proper use and benefit.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said The Washington Trust Company as Executor as aforesaid, has caused its name to be hereto signed and its seal hereunto affixed by Thomas Perry, its Vice President and Trust Officer, and by Alfred C. Baker, its Treasurer, both duly authorized in the premises this 27th day of April, A. D. 1939.
THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, (Corporate Seal)
Executor under the Will of Susan Champlain, by
Thomas Perry
Its Vice President and Trust Officer
Alfred C. Baker
Its Treasurer
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In the Town of Westerly in said County, this 27th day of April, A. D. 1939, personally appeared before me the above named Thomas Perry and Alfred C. Baker, to me personally known and known by me to be the Vice President - Trust Officer and Treasurer, respectively, of The Washington Trust Company, Executor under the will of Susan Champlain, deceased, and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by them signed, to be their free act and deed in their said capacities, and the free act and deed of The Washington Trust Company as Executor as aforesaid.
DAVID ROBERTSON, Notary Public.
Received for record April 28th, A. D. 1939 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m., and reported by [?] Town Clerk