The instrument's own words
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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, bounded 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 lands 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 crosses the northwest stone bound of land
of Elora Bailey, thence Northerly one hundred ninety (190) feet more
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94 or rear to another stone bound with a drill hole in it,
approximately parallel to the East Comley Road, so called,
bounding on other land of the grantor; thence in a westerly
direction to the point of beginning, together with rights of way
over all roads in Comley not particularly private and with
a four (4) foot right of way across lands of the grantor to the
East Comley Road, as called, at a convenient point near the
southeast corner of this tract and with a right of way to
a convenient pond at the shore of "Leansome Cove" so called, and
a right of way to the ocean beach over land of the grantor and
with the right and privilege of erecting and maintaining a
small watch house on the south side of the highway leading
from East Beach to Charlestown Beach," I, Mary T. Comley
wife of the grantor release to said grantor all my right of
adower in the aforementioned premises.
Witness our hands this 8th day of October 1927.
[Signed] Herman Dayman Comley
[Signed] Mary T. Comley
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Colleton on the 31, day of October AD, 1927
before me personally appeared the above named grantors
to me known and known by me to be the parties executing
the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged that said
instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed.
[Signed] George LaCroose
[Signed] Mary Public
Notary Public
Received for record October 31, 1927 at 9:10 o'clock AM
and recorded by George LaCroose, Town Clerk
I, Isham H. R. Pike, of the city of Providence in Providence county,
Rhode Island, for consideration paid grant to Mary A. Slide of
the city and county of Providence in said State with Mortgage covenants
to secure the payment of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars at interest of
eight (8%) per centum per annum, payable in installments as
provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith
a certain tract of salt marsh land containing four acres more or less
situated in the town of Charlestown in said Washington county and
bounded as follows: on the North by a creek, In the East by a creek