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450 Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester SS.
At a Probate court held at Worcester in and for said county
of Worcester on the twenty eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven came, Coram the Register of
George A. McLeod of Narragansett in the State of Rhode Island requesting
that he is the owner of certain real estate situate in Charlestown, in said
State of Rhode Island described as follows: A certain piece of land
with the improvements thereon, situate in the Town of Charlestown in
the State of Rhode Island, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone
post on the westerly side of the First Road at the northwest corner of
said tract; thence ninety rods easterly and by with said First Road one
hundred ninety five feet to a stone wall thence southward thence
one hundred fifty feet thence easterly one hundred ninety first feet
thence southerly one hundred fifty feet to fence of beginning, bounded
Easterly, Northerly and Westerly, by land of Al. Simmons west boundary
by First Road, and Southerly by fence and desiring of conveying the same; and that
Katie R. McLeod, his wife and her rights are as follows hers, and is therefore incompetent
to release her right of ownership in said real estate, and praying that she
or guardian of said Katie R. McLeod may be authorized to release
her said rights in said real estate, and all her and her interests therein
been duly certified the court being satisfied that said right of ownership
ought to be released, it is decided that said guardian be authorized
to make said release by joining in any deed of conveyance made
by said petitioners or any deeds furnished within three years next after
the date of this decree whether such deed pass the whole or only
separate parcels or lots of said real estate.
Test: N. L. Chamberlain
Judge of Probate Court.
Received for record February 19, 1927 at 8:40 o'clock AM.
and recorded by George L. Cross, Tom Clerk
Know all Men by these presents, that I, George A. McLeod
of Narragansett, Rhode Island, and Per administrator of the estate of Katie R. McLeod
her insale person of the State of Massachusetts (hereinafter called the donor)
being the wife of said George A. McLeod, by virtue of the authority
conferred upon me by the decree of the Probate Court of Worcester in the Common
wealth of Massachusetts dated January 28, 1927, a copy of said decree being
searched in the Real Estate Records of the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island
in consideration of the sum of one dollar to me paid by Emma A. Tucker
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of Charlestown, Rhode Island, hereinafter called the grantee, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said
grantee, her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest property, claims
and demand or which said Katie R. M. Beach as the sole of said George A. M. Beach,
did have or ever had by reason of any prior relation whatever to said George A. M. Beach, in
and to a certain lot of land with the improvements thereon heretofore conveyed by
said George A. M. Beach and mother to said Emma A. Tucker, particularly described
as a certain lot of land with the improvements thereon situate in the town of
Charlestown, in the state of Rhode Island, bounded as follows: beginning at a
stone wall on the north side of the public highway at the bottom corner of a stone
wall that runs easterly by it, and with said public road one hundred ninety five
feet to land of Leo Chace, thence northerly one hundred fifty three feet easterly
one hundred ninety five feet then northerly one hundred fifty five feet to fence of
beginning, bounded easterly by Tucker, northerly and westerly by land of Leo Chace and
southerly by the Public Road. At the time of the conveyance of said premises
to said Emma A. Tucker said George A. M. Beach was under the impression
by reason of erroneous information he had received that his paid wife had died
in the state of california where she had been confined. The later learned the
contrary and the purpose of this deed is to correct the misstatement common-
ly made in said Tucker deed by said George A. M. Beach to the effect that he was
a single man, and so desire to alter and amend entry, in order that all the
donor intent of said Katie R. M. Beach in and to said premises, laid some
deed of said premises from the grantor to the grantee in dated October 7,
1925 and is recorded in said town's records Book 23 at page 588.
It more and to hold the same, with all night, heritages and
appurtenances thereunto appertaining, unto and to the use of the said
grantee her heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforementioned grantor
for myself and for my successors, do covenant with the said grantee her
heirs and assigns that I will warrant and defend the above described
premises unto the said grantee her heirs and assigns forever, against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through or
under me or by, through or under the said Katie R. M. Beach.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1 day of
February in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven.
Signed sealed and sealed in the presence of
P. N. Quinn. George A. M. Beach.
Executon of the estate of Katie R. M. Beach.
L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
On Providence on the 1st day of February 1927 before
me personally appeared the above named George A. M. Beach
to me known and known day one to be the party executing the
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foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him
legally dated to be his free act and deed, individually and in his capacity
as Administrator as aforesaid,
P. H. Dunn
Notary Public
Received for record February 19, 1943 at 8 44 o'clock AM
and recorded by George Co. Lons, Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I, Alma R. P. Other
sometimes known as Alma R. Ford, of Charlestown, Rhode Island,
hereinafter called the Grantor in consideration of the sum of one
dollar to me paid by Emma A. Tucker of said Charlestown,
hereinafter called the Grantee the receipt hereof is hereby acknowledged,
do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim unto the said
Grantee, her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest
property claim and demand whatever I now have or of right oughts
to have or claim, in and to a certain tract of land with the
improvements thereon, situate in the town of Charlestown, in the
State of Rhode Island, bounded as follows Beginning at a stone
post on the Northerly side of the Bell Road at the Southeaster corner
of said Road, thence running Easterly by and with said Bell Road
one hundred ninety five feet to land of Asa Church; thence Northerly
one hundred fifty feet; thence Westerly one hundred seventy five
feet; thence Southerly one hundred fifty feet to line of beginning,
bounded Easterly, Northerly and Westerly by land of Asa Church and
Southerly by the Bell Road. This deed of mine is given for the
purpose of correcting and amplifying a certain other deed to this
Grantee from this Grantor and her executrix and be heirs in law,
dated October 7, 1935 and recorded in the Town Clerk's office under read
beal volume 22 at page 58, in which said former deed the
Grantor deposited herself as a married woman under the name of
Alma R. Ford, At the time of making said deed she misrepresented
that she was a married woman by reason of a certain pretended
marriage ceremony which she had performed with one John H. Ford
in Somerville, Massachusetts on or about June 17, 1892, but she now
learns that at the time of giving paid former deed she was not a
married woman, because her pretended marriage to said Ford
was a nullity for the reason that he then had a wife living, and so
this Grantor could not and did not become his wife, either
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