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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Gertrude Burdick, widow of Charles
Burdick, of the Town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to
Ethel G. Burdick, of the town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Wash-
ington and State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
A certain parcel of land or building or building Lot known as Lot No. 6 (as shown on a Plat
of "Flat" known as "The Flat" in the Town of Charlestown, R.I., formerly
owned by Thomas L. Arnold, late of the town of Charlestown, R. I., scale
one inch to 80 feet, Beginning at a stone bound on Howard St. Said Plat being
filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Charlestown.
It is a condition of this deed that the Grantee, her guests, agents ser-
vants, heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns shall at all times have the
right to pass and repass over and under, in open vehicles or on foot
over and across the road known as the West Arnold Road from Hunter's Road
through the said parcel of land, being three hundred linear feet wide and
over the land known as "the Welcome Home R. Lot" formerly owned
by the said Thomas L. Arnold, being about seventy feet wide, and
over Charlestown Pond or Bay, thence westerly across the Mary Burdick and Able
Sarah Chapel and further westerly across Thomas Arnold's land, and’
known as the Harbor Road to the beach lot hereby conveyed and, the Grantee, her
guests, agents, servants, heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns shall
also have a right of way to the beach or ocean over and across the beach land,
and said right of way shall be twenty feet wide, and described as follows:
Beach lands owned by Sarah Chaplin, Abbie Chaplin and Mary Burdick,
Charlestown, R. I., as shown on a plat dated May 1931. Said Plat being filed
in the Office of the Town Clerk, of said Charlestown.
The Grantee shall further be permitted to erect a small bath house 10 x 15 feet
or on said beach land such other size as may be agreed upon as shown on said Plat
not more than one hundred feet from said road
This deed is given upon the express condition that the above granted premises
are to be used by the Grantee, her heirs and assigns for residential purposes.
For any breach or violation of the above conditions, the Grantor, her heirs and assigns
may reenter and repossess the estate hereby granted and all the right and inter-
est hereby conveyed shall be forfeited and cease and terminate.
Not please permit to build any bridge in the waters of Hunter's
lot please permit to build any bridge in the waters of Hunter's
Lot please permit to build any bridge in the waters of Hunter's
Harbor adjacent to the Lot hereby conveyed and any docks erected on said lot
shall not extend outboard more than 40 feet.
Meaning and intending to convey that same estate which was conveyed to this
Grantor by deed from Thomas L. Arnold under date of February 16, 1904 and re-
corded in the Records of Land Evidence in said Town of Charlestown, R. I., in
Book No. 21 at Page No. 275.
WITNESS my hand this 25th, day of November 1931.
GERTRUDE BURDICK.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON }
In Richmond, on the 25th day of Nov. 1931 before me personally appeared Gertrude
Burdick to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing instrument,
and she acknowledged said instrument by her execution here to be her free act and deed.
OSCAR E. R. BARBER,
Notary Public.
Received for record November 27th, A. D. 1931, at 6:45 o'clock P. M. and
recorded by
Town Clerk.