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252 Know All Men by these presents, That Howard E.
Thorp of the Town of Coventry County of Washington and State of
Rhode Island aforesaid called the grantor, In consideration of Ten
dollars and other valuable considerations paid by Philip J. Adams
of the city of Providence County of Providence and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts hereinafter called the grantee the receipt whereof
hereby acknowledged does hereby grant give grant bargain sell and
convey unto the said grantee his heirs and assignses forever,
a certain tract or parcel of land situate and lying in the Town
of Charlestown in said County of Washington State of Rhode Island,
described as follows To wit Lot Number One as shown and
delineated on a certain plan or map entitled "Plan of Immortality
Central Beach, Charlestown, R.I. Thorp & Lanner Inc." signed by legitimacy
feet to the north, October 24, 1924 Ross and Burns Engineers Rhode Is l.
1924 said plan or mapping file in the Town Clerk's office in
said Charlestown the said Grantee his heirs and assigns shall have
the right to have and to pass to and from and forth to and from said
lot a tract on foot or horseback over in and across certain
rights of way or roads as shown on said plan or map leading to
the public highway and as well all of the ways leading to the
beach and also all that right of way leading from the road to the fresh
water pond and any other portions of said lot which hereafter
be designated for public use the said grantee for himself his heirs and
assigns hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said grantor his
heirs and assigns that he the said grantee his heirs and assigns will and
shall pay to the said grantor his heirs and assigns on or before the first
day of August in each year henceforth the sum of five ($5) Dollars for each
lot hereby conveyed and said sum is to be expended as applied by the said
grantor his heirs and assigns in his and their uncontrolled direction
to the care and maintenance of the roads and other portions that may be
designated for public use the said agree to be held all
members alike alien and charge upon the premises hereby conveyed and
in case of the failure to make any payment within one year after the
same shall become due it shall be lawful for the grantor his heirs and
assigns to sell and convey the premises at Public Auction first giving
notice of such sale in some newspaper published in said County by
Washington of at least once each week for three successive weeks and to
become the purchasers or purchasers at said sale.
To have and to hold the aforegoing premises with all the rights
privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto and to the use of the
said Grantee his heirs and assigns forever subject however to the following
conditions and restrictions namely:
1. In case of a contemplated sale of said lot or parcel of land or any
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that theirs of said grantor, his heirs or assigns, shall be given ten days notice
in writing and shall have the first option to purchase the same with the
buildings and improvements thereon at the highest fair price in good
faith traded and actually offered to the said heirs or his heirs or assigns,
12. The above described premises shall be used only as a site for
one dwelling house on each lot barely enough, which dwelling house shall
be erected on the premises in accordance with the building line as shown on
said plat and no portion of any building or dwelling house ( porch in included)
shall approach the street or street or other front means than said building
line, with any building of natural or land whether structures of anything
the side lines of the lot or other more than five feet therefrom; no detached
garage or other outbuilding or buildings shall be erects therein, such
houses erected on said lots shall cost when completed not less than
Two ($2,000.00) Thousand and dwellings on lot numbered 1 all toilets, bathtubs
or other drains or sewers outlet shall be piped to a suitable cesspool
to be constructed and maintained on the above premises by the grantee,
his heirs and assigns, at his or their own cost and expense,
8. No shrubs or thin walls, hedges or fences shall be
permitted, nor trees of any form nor dwellings (except the dwelling
house) that shall in any way obstruct the view from any part of any
adjoining property or any dwelling place in this colony; shrubs,
flowers and vegetables shall be permitted.
9. No poultry avian, cattle, sheep, swine or vicious dogs cats
or any other noisy or offensive animals or birds shall be
kept or permitted to be kept on said premises.
10. The grantor, his heirs and assigns, reserve the right to
enter upon the above described and conveyed premises to lay
any pipes inlets outlets or pipes, to repair the same, always leaving
the premises in as good condition as when entered.
It is hereby further covenanted understood and agreed
by and between the parties hereto that all the aforesaid covenants
conditions, covenants and agreements on the part of the said
grantor, his heirs and assigns on his or their part to be kept and
performed, shall attach to and run with the land hereby conveyed.
It is further agreed and made a part of the consideration by
this deed and purchase that in case of any violation of the above
conditions or covenants on the part of said grantee or his
heirs or assigns, that the title and fee it said premises shall revert
to the said grantor his heirs or assigns, and he or they may
repossess himself or themselves of the estate hereby granted and
all right title and interest hereby conveyed shall be forfeited and
cease and terminate. The said grantor for himself, his
heirs executors and administrators, covenants with the said grantee,
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his heirs and assigns that he is lawfully seized in fee simple of the
said granted househouses, that the same are free from all encumbrances,
offsets as aforesaid, that he has good right full power and lawful
authority to sell and convey the same in manner as aforesaid, that
the said grantee and his heirs and assigns shall by these premises
at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said
premises subject as aforesaid, and that the said grantor will and
his heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend
the same to the said grantee his heirs and assigns forever against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons whatever as aforesaid.
And for the consideration aforesaid I, Hallie M. Thorp do
hereby release all my right of dower in and to the said granted
premises unto the said grantee and his heirs and assigns forever.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this 9th day of June in the year of our lord one thousand
nine hundred and twenty six.
Executed in the presence of
R. E. Traines
Howard S. Thorp L.S.
Hallie M. Thorp L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Melville, on the 9th day of June, AD 1926, before
me personally appeared Howard S. Thorp and Hallie M. Thorp,
to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the
foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument by
them executed to be their free act and deed.
Rogers E. Traines
Notary Public
Recorded for record June 19th 1926 at 9.15 o'clock A.M.
and seconded by George G. Cozzens, from Clerk
Know all men by these presents, that we, Charles P.
Dwight of Richmond, Rhode Island and Neil M. Thompson of Housatonic
New Jersey, in consideration of the sum of ten dollars to eye paid by
Pearle R. Dwight of Foster, Rhode Island, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim unto
her the said Pearle R. Dwight her heirs and assigns forever, all the right,
title, interest, property, claim and demand which we have have or of right
ought to have, in claim, in and to a certain track of land situated on
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