The instrument's own words
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130 1927, before me personally appeared the above named grantors, Charles
S. Fontana, Thomas N. Morrison, Augie Fontana and Elizabeth M.
Morrison ts mk known to and known by me to be four of the parties
executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument,
by them executed to be their free act and deed.
Dennis M. Burke,
Notary Public.
State of Connecticut
County of New London ss.
In Stonington on the 8th day of December, A.D. 1927
before me personally appeared the above named grantors William
H. slurry and Ellen slurry mk known to and known by me to be
two of the parties executing the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged said instrument, by them executed to be their free
act and deed.
Winifred M. Kearney
Notary Public.
Received for record Dec. 29th 1927 at 2.40 o'clock p.m.
and recorded by George L. Ames Town Clerk
KNOW All MEN by these presents, That Howard
E. Shock, of the Town of Westerly, County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor, in
consideration of Ten (10) dollars and other valuable considerations
paid by Mildred V. Slemmerdan and Alice B. P. Saunders of
Providence, County of Providence and State of Rhode Island,
hereinafter called the Grantees, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, does hereby give, grant, bargain sell and
convey, unto the said Grantees, and their heirs, their assigns
forever, a certain tract or parcel of land situated and being in the
Town of Charlestown, in said County of Washington, bounded and
described as follows, to wit: North by a number of lines as shown
and delineated on a certain plan or plat entitled "Plan of A
Summertime Consulting Beach, Charlestown R.I. Troop E. Reserve, Inc.
Agents," roughly forty feet to the road, October 1924, Rose and Devon Streets,
recorded November 18, 1925, said plan or plat being on file in the Town
Clerks office in said Town of Charlestown; the said Grantees, their
their heirs assigns, shall have the right to have and repair to and from
and from home to said lot or tract or foot or otherwise, over, on and
across some certain rights of way or roads as shown on said plan
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or plot leading to the public highway, and as well, the rights of way
leading to the beach and also the right of way leading from the road to
the fresh water pond and any other plotlets of said plot which might
hereafter be designated for public use, the said beaulieu, for themselves
their heirs and assigns, hereby irrevocably covenants and agrees to and with the
said beaulieu, their heirs and assigns, that they, said beaulieu, their heirs
and assigns, will and shall pay to the said beaulieu, their heirs
and assigns, on or before the first date of August in each year hereafter,
the sum of five (5) dollars for each lot hereby conveyed, said sum to
be employed and applied by the said beaulieu, their heirs and assigns,
in this and their unrestricted discretion to the care and maintenance
of the roads and other portions that may be designated for public use,
and the said owner agreed to be paid for hereby made a lien upon
the premises hereby conveyed, given in case of the failure to make any
payment within six days after the same became due, and it shall
be lawful for the beaulieu, their heirs and assigns, to sell and convey the
premises at public auction, first giving notice of such sale in some
newspapers published in said city of Washington, at least once
each week for three successive weeks, and to become the purchaser or
purchaser at said sale.
To have and to hold the aforesaid
premises with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto
belonging, unto and to the use of the said beaulieu, their 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 part thereof, said beaulieu, their heirs or assign, shall be
given written notice in writing and shall give the first option to
purchase the same with the buildings and improvements thereon at
the highest bona fide price in good faith made and actually offered to
the said party or their heirs duly assigned.
2. The above conveyed premises shall be used only as a site for
one dwelling house or shack then lately conveyed, 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
(porch included) shall approach the street or road or ocean
front more than said building line, no shed any building of
any nature or kind whatever shall approach the guidelines of the left
or lots more than ten feet from their front (no detached garage or other
outbuilding or building shall be erected therein), dwelling house
erected on said lot if lot shall cost when completed not less than
one thousand dollars ($1000.00) on lot numbered 82 all toilets, bath
kitchen or other drains or sewage outlets shall be piped to a suitable
cess pool to be constructed and maintained on the above premises
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132 by the grantees their heirs and assigns at their or their own cost and expense
$\psi$, No division or hive walls hedges or fences shall be planted,
nor trees of any kind nor anything (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 herbs shrubs flowers and
vegetables shall be permitted
4. No poultry swine cattle horses or other vicious dogs or cats or
any other noisy or objectionable animals or birds shall be kept
or permitted to be kept on said premises
5. The grantor his heirs and assigns reserve the right to
enter upon the above described and conveyed premises to levy
any fine solutes or papers, or 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 conditions
covenants and agreements on the part of the said grantees their
heirs and assigns on their or their joint 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 of this said sale and
purchase that in case of any violation of the above conditions or
covenants on the part of said grantees or their heirs or assigns
that the title and fee to 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 rights
title and interest hereby conveyed shall be forfeited and void
and terminate
The said grantor for himself his heirs
executors and administrators covenants with the said grantees
their heirs and assigns that he is lawfully seized in fee simple of
the said granted premises that the same are free from all encumbrances whatever except as aforesaid that he has the right full power and
lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner an assay
that the said grantees and their heirs and assigns shall by these
presents at all times hereafter be forever quietly 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 grantees their heirs and
assigns against the lawful claims and demands of all persons except as aforesaid And for the consideration
aforesaid I Hastie M Thorpe do hereby release all my right of ownership
in and to the said granted premises unto the said grantees their heirs and
assigns forever
In witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this
56th day of November In the year of our Lord one thousand nine
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hundred and twenty seven
Executed in the presence of
R. E. Trainer
Howard E. Thorp AS
Hattie M. Thorp DS
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
I, R. Trainer on the 8th day of November AD, 1927, before me personally
appeared Howard E. Thorp and Hattie M. Thorp, to me known then be
the be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said
instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed
Roger E. Trainer
Notary Public
Received for record Dec 28, 1927 at 8 O'clock AM,
and transcribed by George G. Cox, town clerk
I, Rhodes P. Potter of the town of Charlestown, of Washington
county, Rhode Island, for consideration grant and convey to Evelyn
P. Potter of the village of Connecticut, in the town of Glocester, county
of New boston and state of connecticut with all rights commonties, all
my right title and interest in and to the homestead estate of the late
Cecilia Potter, situated in said Charlestown, near the brook of
leavitts, so called, and containing by estimation thirty five acres
of land, more or less, with the buildings and improvements thereon
bounded and described as follows to wit Firstly Southerly by the sociable river
and by land formerly belonging to peace R. Plymouth and land
for newly belonging to Cecilia Potter, easterly by the Chehaw River, lanes
Secondly by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
and thirdly by the highway leading from Coxs hill to Eastville,
the bearings and angles singular the same property conveyed to
Napoleon B. Eddy and Albert G. Eddy by father J. Holmes, Edward
S. Harrington and Hattie W. Harrington by warranty deed dated
the 15th day of July AD, 1877, and recorded in the record of deeds
of the town of Charlestown in book No. 13 at page 376,
Witness my hand this 28th day of December 1927,
Eugene S. Roche.
Rhodes P. Potter LSS
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
I, R. Trainer on the 28th day of December AD, 1927
before one personally appeared the above named Grantor