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5/17/1928 · EASEMENT · book 23 page 201 doc 8368

From ARNOLD THOMAS L life
To SOUTH COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE CO
Premises none · Right to erect and transmit electricity lines (Charlestown, Harbor Road)
Also on this page: DEED BUDDINGTON JOHN W

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⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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201 I, Samuel H. Davis, of the Town of Westerly of Washington County Rhode Island for consideration named appoint to John M. Buddingtath of the said Town of Westerly, County and State aforesaid with warranty concorduthe right to pass and repair on foot or by vehicle from his property located near Evergreen Point Beach on the roadway called Lighthouse Road and Beach Head Road as shown on "Map of Evergreens Cottages at Sonnington Beach, Rhode Island, property of S.H. Davis, Civil Engineer" said road having been filed for record with the Town Records of said Town of Charlestown from said roadway to said beach. I, Lina N. Davis, wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my right of spouse in the aforementioned premises Witnesses our hands this thirteenth day of April 1928 Lacy R. Agardall Samuel H. Davis L.S. Lina N. Davis State of Rhode Island, County of Washington On this 13th day of April A.D. 1928 before me personally appeared the above named grantors, Samuel H. Davis and Lina N. Davis, his wife to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged signed said instrument by them sealed to be their free act and deed. Lacy R. Agardall Notary Public Received for record May 16, 1928 at 9.35 o'clock A.M. and recorded by George B. Kerns, Town Clerk KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, That I, Thomas C. Cornell of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island (hereinafter called the Grantor) in consideration of one dollar paid, grant to the South County Public Service Company, a Rhode Island corporation having an office in Westerly in said State its successors and assigns (hereinafter called the Grantee) the perfected right to erect transmit current and feed upon and over my land situated in the town of Charlestown in said County and State a single line of poles with the wires or cables thereon, and with other appliances and with the necessary poles and guys or other supports, or any other reasonable appliances necessary for the transmission and distribution of electricity;
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202 also the right to trim, cut down or remove such trees or brush in or adjacent to the locations as in the judgment of the grantee may endanger the safety or interfere with the operations of said lines, and also the right to set all kinds of reasonable access over the premises owned by me to said lines for the purpose of inspection, construction and repair, said lines to extend Southwesterly from the end of the present lines near my residence on Harbor Road, a pebbled street which runs along said Harbor Road to the southerly and then as shown on a plan to be recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Charlestown, R.I. to which plan reference is hereby made for a further description of the premises. And I hereby for myself and my heirs, executors and administrators or assigns, covenant with the grantee and its successors and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the premises over which said rights and easements are granted, that they are free from all encumbrances which may interfere with the exercise of said rights and easements, that I have good right to grant and convey said rights and easements as aforesaid, and that I will and my heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the grantee and its successors and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. Witness my hand and seal this 14th day of May A.D. 1928 Witness Richard H. Donborn Thomas L. Arnold. State of Rhode Island County of Washington SS. In Charlestown in said County, this 14th day of May, A.D. 1928 before me personally appeared the above named Thomas L. Arnold to me known and known by me to be the party who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said instrument to be his free act and deed, George W. Coone Notary Public SS. Received for record May, 17, 1928 at 9 o'clock a.m., and recorded by George W. Coone, Town Clerk.
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203 TL Arnold Dwelling TL Arnold House New Plat No A Sout Co T L. ARNOLD P.M. 1954

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