The instrument's own words
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54 KNOW All MEN by these presents That I, Mary A.
Dudley of the Borough of Brooklyn City and State of New York in
consideration of the sum of ten dollars to me paid by Katherine D.
Slocum of Pelham in said State of New York the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged do selling remise release and forever quit claim
unto the said Katherine D Slocum her heirs and assigns premise
all the right title property estate claim and demand whatever I
have now or of right ought to have or claim in and to a certain
tract of land with a cottage and other improvements thereon standing
situated in the Town of Rapidanston in the county of Washington
and state of Rhode Island bounded and described as follows
Beginning at a stake on a pine pole at a private road at the Northwest
corner of this tract thence easterly two hundred and eighty two
and one quarter (282 1/4 feet) to the center of the mill stream through
the veil and gauge sixty four and twenty five hundredths (64.25)
feet thence Easterly one hundred twenty two hundred ninety five fourteenths
(122.95) feet to a pin in a piper thence easterly two hundred seventy
nine feet and seventy five hundredths (279.75) to an iron pipe at the east
territory thence southerly seventy seven and two tenths (77.2) feet
to a stake at the stone wall of said premises thence southeasterly
as per the stone wall of said plot to a stone bound thence westerly
two hundred seven and seventy seven hundredths (207.77) feet
to a private water then northwesterly along said private road
one hundred seventy seven and ninety one hundredths (177.91)
feet to piece of adjoining granting unto said grantee a
right to bridle vehicle and drive way on road of Heaton the
said premises are sold and delivered true said premises for
residential purposes only and shall not be permitted for commercial
or garages into the meters of or inhibitory to corporations
bound For more of about aforesaid tract reference is hereby
made to said evidence of said transaction Book No 18 page
500. I have and do intend to hold the same with all appurtenances
in every part and particulars hereunto appertaining
unto and to the use of the said Katherine D Slocum
her heirs and assigns forever and for myself aforesaid
namely I Dudley for myself and for my heirs executors
and administrators as covenant with the said Katherine
D Slocum her heirs and assigns that I will warrant
and defend the aforesaid premises unto the said
Katherine D Slocum her heirs and assigns forever
against the lawful claims and demands of all
persons claiming by thorough or under me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
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hand and seal this 19th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and twenty three,
Signed and sealed in presence of
George A Cross Mary C Dudley [signature]
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
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Before me, a Notary Public on this 19th day of September AD 1923
were me personally appeared Mary C Dudley to me known, and
known me to be the party executing the foregoing within meant and
did acknowledge said instrument with all slated, to be her free
act and deed.
George A Cross [signature]
[signature]
Received for record Sept 19th 1923 at 2.30 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George A Cross, Town Clerk
Our indenture, made at New Haven, Connecticut, and dated
the ninth day of December, in the year one thousand nine hundred
and twenty one between The New York New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company, a consolidated corporation having its principal
office in New Haven, Connecticut, created and existing under the laws
of the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts by virtue
of articles which said laws were and is a corporate union of
certain constituted railroad corporations referred to in said
laws, and an amalgamation of their properties in each of said
States into one system of railroads with one body of common
stockholders, one board of directors, with authority to
operate railroad lines in the State of New York under the laws
of that State (hereinafter called the "Railroad Company") party
of the first part, and Bankers Trust Company, a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York
(hereinafter called the "Trustee",) as trustee, party of the
second part Whereas The Railroad Company owns
certain railroads and properties hereinafter more specifically
described, located in one or more of the States of Connecticut
Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts and etc, under
indentures of lease for long terms of years, operates railroads
and properties owned by other railroad corporations, connected
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