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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, ASA T. HOXSIE, of the Town of
Charlestown and State of Rhode Island, and ARTHUR E. MUNRO of the City of Providence
in said State, Executors of the will of Mary J. Hoxsie, late of said Town of Charlestown,
deceased, by virtue and in exercise of the power and authority given us in and by said
will, and of every other power and authority us hereto enabling, and for and in con-
sideration of the sum of Ten (10) Dollars and other valuable consideration to us paid
by the STATE of Rhode Island and PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS (acting by and through the
Metropolitan Park Commission), the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby
grant, bargain sell and convey unto said State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
hereinafter called the grantee, its successors and assigns forever,
An undivided one-quarter part of that tract or parcel of land situated
in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, containing by es-
timation five and one-half (5 1/2) acres, bounding northerly on land form-
erly of Silas A. Hoxsie and others, easterly by boundary of Fredak Hoxsie farm,
southerly on land formerly of Thoday Hoxsie mall, and westerly on land form-
erly of T. Hoxsie in the same manner as the same land designated as "Mary
Healy's" on a plat recorded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Town of
Charlestown in book 7 page 467 and 469.
Being the same land previously conveyed by deed of the heirs of Thoday Hall
to Perry Healy dated June 26, 1852 and recorded in said records in book
7 at page 469.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid premises, with all the privileges and
appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of the said grantee, and its
successors and assigns forever in fee simple.
And we, the said Asa T. Hoxsie and Arthur Z. Munro, for the consideration
aforesaid, do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee, its
successors and assigns, all our right, title and interest in and to the aforementioned
premises, including herein the right of curtesy of the said Asa T. Hoxsie, and all the
right, title and interest devised to us in and by said will.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto, individually and in our capacity as
executors aforesaid, set our hands and seals this twelfth day of October in the year
of our lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty one (1931).
ASA T. HOXSIE (L.S.)
ARTHUR Z. MUNRO (L.S.)
ASA T. HOXSIE (L.S.)
ARTHUR Z. MUNRO (L.S.)
Signatures of the will of
MARY J. HOXSIE
Signed and Sealed
in presence of:
CARL W. STANSON
STATE of RHODE ISLAND ]
County of Washington }
In Charlestown in said County on the 26th day of October A. D. 1931, before me
personally appeared the above named Asa F. Hoxsie and Arthur Z. Munro, to me known and
known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument individually and in their
capacity as executors aforesaid, and acknowledged said instrument by them executed to be
their free act and deed individually and in their capacity as executors of the will of
Mary J. Hoxsie.
Approved
BENJAMIN M. DELYMAN
Attorney General.
CARL W. STANSON
Notary Public.
Received for record November 6th, A. D. 1931, at 2:15 o'clock P. M.
and recorded by
Town Clerk.