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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 Charles-
town, 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 consideration 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-third part of that tract of land situated in
the Town of Charlestown and State of Rhode Island, containing by
estimation 60 acres of land, bounding northerly by all Brook,
easterly by the Wood Lot of Samuel Moore, southerly by land commonly
the heirs of Joseph Manchester, and westerly by Taylor Brook; Being
the same and allowance of a certain deed to Reuben Sprague, by a series
deeds, one from Simeon Perry et al, dated January 25, 1869 and recorded
in the Registry of Lands of Kent County, Rhode Island in Book 34 Page 153,
one from Thomas R. Sherman et al, dated January 25, 1869 and
reported in said record in Book 34 Page 155, and one from Orrin
R. Campbell and wife dated March 13, 1879 and reported in said
Charlestown Land Records in book 37 and page 504.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid premises, unto and to the use of the said grantee,
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 said Arthur E. Munro, for the consider-
ation 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).
Signed and Sealed
in presence of:
CARL W. SWANSON
ASA T. HOXSIE (L. S.)
ARTHUR E. MUNRO (L. S.)
ASA T. HOXSIE & (L. S.)
ARTHUR E. MUNRO
Executors of the Will of (L. S.)
MARY J. HOXSIE. (L. S.)
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 T. Hoxsie and Arthur R. 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. MILMAN CARL W. SWANSON
Attorney General Notary Public.
Received for record November 6th, A. D. 1931, at 2:20 o'clock P. M.
and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.