The instrument's own words
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92 State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In North Charlestown on the 17th day of October A.D. 1937 before
one personally appeared Williams B. Adams to me known and known
me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument and the
acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be his free act
and deed.
George Lawrence
Notary Public
Received for record October 29, 1937 at 9:20 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George Lawrence, Town Clerk.
[Illegible handwritten notations/marginalia]
L. C.
I, Teresa Thompson Speed, of 34 Franconia Park, New York
City, County of New York and State of New York for consideration
paid, give all that certain tract of land situated in private
charter, in being south 81, 12, " east of cottage site on property
of H. M. B. Benedict, Northcourt, East Beach, Charlestown, R. I. by
68.00 feet paid " which plot is on record in said Evidence of said
Corporation, Book 14, 18 page 14, Reference thereto being made
for a more particular description, subject however, to the
following conditions and restrictions: No garage shall be erected on
lot 14 or any dwelling house on which toilets be located thereon.
I, Buckner Speed, husband of the grantor Teresa Thompson
Speed, declare to waive all my right of dower or tenure
in the aforesaid described premises.
Witness my hand this 23rd day of October, 1937
Teresa Thompson Speed.
Buckner Speed.
State of New York SS.
County of New York
In the City of New York on the 23d day of October 1937
before me personally appeared the above named Grantors, Teresa
Thompson Speed and Buckner Speed, to me known and known
me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and they
acknowledged said instrument by them executed, to be their free
act and deed.
F. J. Holmes
Notary Public L.S.
New York County
Commission Office Branch 3
exp 1940
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State of New York,
County of New York ss.
No. 66043, Series B.
I, William T. Costello, clerk of the county of New York and also
clerk of the supreme court for the said county, the same being a Court of
Record having a seal, do hereby certify that T. H. Thomson whose name is
subscribed to the deposition or certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the
annexed instrument and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such
deposition, a proof and acknowledgment, a notary Public in and for
such county, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the
laws of said state to take depositions and to administer oaths to be used
in any court of said state and for general purposes, and also to take
acknowledgments and proofs of deeds, of conveyances for lands,
tenements or hereditaments within said State of New York. And further
that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such notary Public,
and verily believe that the signature to said deposition or certificate
of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said court and county, the 28 day Oct 1947
William T. Costello Clerk.
Received for record Oct. 30, 1947 at 9-15 o'clock a.m.
and recorded by George G. Cass, Tom Clerk.
I, Thomas Degman Arnold of Charlestown, Washington
County, Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Pericles
S. Potter of the said county county of Providence in said State with
warranty forevermore, that certain track of land containing sixty
thousand (60,000) sq more or less located in said Charlestown
on the shores of Charlestown Bay near the East Arnold Road, as
called, termed and described as follows: (beginning at a stone
bound with a drill hole in it that a course northly (25) feet South
and thirty (30) feet East of the boundary line between land of
Leland and other parts and hold of the grantor then hundred forty
(140) feet more or less southerly on a line parallel to and thirty (30)
feet Easterly of the boundary line of the land more aforesaid
to a stone bound with a drill hole in it thence Easterly two hundred
thirty (230) feet more or less to a stone bound with a drill hole in it
bordering southerly on other land of the grantor a prolongation of
which line Easterly will cross the northwest stone bound of land
of Elora Bailey, thence Northerly one hundred ninety (190) feet more
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