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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That HOWARD E. THORP, of the Town of Westerly,
County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor, in con-
sideration of Ten (10) Dollars and other valuable considerations, paid by MAUDE A. CONELEY
of the city of Newark, County of Essex and State of New Jersey hereinafter called the
Grantee, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby give, grant, bargain, sell
and convey unto the said Grantee, and her heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract or
parcel of land and situate in the Town of Charlestown, in said County of Washington,
bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Unit number One Hundred Fifty nine (159) as shown and delineated on a certain
plan or plat entitled "Plan of Quonochontaug Beach, Charlestown, R.I., Thorp &
Trainer, Inc., Agents, sixty feet to the inch, Revised Sept. 10, 1929, October 1924,
Rossi and Lewis, Engrs.," said plan or plat being on file in the Town Clerk's office in
said Town of Charlestown; the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, shall have the right
to pass and repass from to and from and from to said lot or tract on foot or otherwise, over,
on and across those certain rights of way or roads as shown on said plan or plat 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 portions of said plat
which might hereafter be designated for Public Use; the said Grantee, for herself her
heirs and assigns, hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said Grantor, his heirs and
assigns, that the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, will and shall pay to the said
Grantor, his heirs and assigns, on or before the first day of August in each year hereafter,
the sum of Five (5) Dollars for each lot hereby conveyed, said sum to be expended and
applied by the said Grantor, his heirs and assigns, in his and their uncontrolled discretion
to the care and maintenance of the roads and other portions that may be designated for
Public Use, and the said sums agreed to be paid hereby made a lien and charge upon the
premises hereby conveyed, and in case of the failure to make any payment within one year
after the same became due, it shall be lawful for the Grantor, his heirs and assigns,
to sell and convey the premises at Public Auction, first giving notice of such sale in some
newspaper published in said County of Washington, at least once each week for three success-
ive weeks, and to bonus the purchaser or purchasers at said sale.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the rights, privileges
and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantee, her 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 Grantor, his heirs or assigns, shall be given ten days notice
in writing and shall have the first option to purchase the said lot or
building and improvements thereon at the highest bona fide price in
good faith and actually offered to the said Grantor or his heirs and assigns.
2. One above conveyed premises shall be and only as a site for one dwelling
house on each lot hereby conveyed, which dwelling house shall be erected
on the lowest point in elevation of said lot, line as shown on plat, and
no partion of and building or dwelling house (porch included shall
encroach the street or right of way as shown on said plat but no building,
nor any shell of building of any nature or kind whatsoever encroach the side
lines of the lot or boundary lines of said lot whether fence or hedge or dividing
fence or other buildings or outbuildings shall be erected thereon; dwelling house
erected on said lot or any part thereof, including bath, kitchen or other
drainage or sewage outlets shall be piped to a suitable cesspool to be constructed
and maintained at the owner's own expense, her heirs or assigns, her heirs or assigns,
at her own cost and expense.
3. No division or line walls, hedges or fences shall be permitted, nor trees of any
kind, nor anything (except the eaves of said dwelling house) that in any way obstruct
the view from any part of any adjoining property or any dwelling place in this
colony; shrubs, flowers and vegetables may be permitted.
4. No poultry, swine, cattle, sheep or vicious dogs or cats or any other noisy or
objectionable animals or birds shall be kept or permitted to be kept on said
premises.
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5. The Grantor, his heirs and assigns, reserve the right to enter upon
the above described and conveyed premises to lay any pipe outlets or
pipes or to repair the same, always leaving the premises in as good
condition as when entered.
6. It is hereby further contented, understood and agreed by and between
the parties hereto that all the aforesaid conditions, covenants and
agreements on the part of the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, on
her part, or their part, to be performed and observed with respect to
the land hereby conveyed; it is further agreed and made a part of the
consideration of this said grant that if any of the said Grantee or any
of her heirs, or assigns, shall fail to perform and observe any one
of the above conditions or covenants on the part of said Grantee or her
heirs or assigns, that all the rights, title and all right, title, interest
to the said Grantor, his heirs or assigns, or that he or they may possess
improvements or tenements on said premises, and all right, title,
and interest hereby granted shall be forfeited and cease and terminate.
The said Grantor for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, cov-
enants with the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, that he is lawfully seized in
fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free from all incumbrances,
sell except as aforesaid, that he has good right, full power, and lawful authority to sell
and convey the same in manner as aforesaid, that the said Grantee and her heirs and
assigns, shall by these present at all times hereafter peaceably 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
Grantee her heirs and assigns, forever against the lawful claims and demands of all
persons except as aforesaid.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 12th day of
November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty
Executed in the presence of
HELEN E. SUTCLIFFE HOWARD E. THORP (L. S.)
REVENUE STAMP, 50c HATTIE M. THORP (L. S.)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
County of Washington }
In Westerly, on the 12th day of November A. D., 1930, before me personally
appeared HOWARD E. THORP and HATTIE M. THORP, to me known and known by me to be the
parties executing the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument by them
executed to be their free act and deed.
HELEN E. SUTCLIFFE
Notary Public.
Received for record August 5th, A. D. 1932 at 9:45 o'clock A. M. and
recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk.
And for the consideration aforesaid, is GRANT to HATTIE M. THORP 26
acres of land in the town of Westerly, situated and lying in said town, granted
premises unto the said Grantee, and her heirs and assigns forever.
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