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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss.
COUNTY OF NEW HAVEN, }
I, ALFRED N. WHEELER, Clerk of the Superior Court, the same being a court
of record, within and for said county and State, and the officer authorized by
the laws of the State of Connecticut to make the following certificate of the
county of New Haven, do hereby certify:
That Elizabeth W. Bacon, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed
instrument, and therewritten, and beforewritten, and who was at the time of signing when the annexed acknowledgment, oath or
affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking such acknowledgment, oath or
affidavit a NOTARY PUBLIC in and for said county of New Haven, residing in said
county, duly sworn State to take and certify the acknowledgment and proof of deeds to be
laws of said State to take and certify the acknowledgment and proof of deeds to be
recorded in said State; and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting
of such officer, and verily believe that the signature to such acknowledgment,
jurat, or certificate is genuine. And I further certify that the impression of
seals of Notary Publics is not required by law to be filed in my office.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said
court, at New Haven, Connecticut, this 1st day of August A. D. 1932.
ALFRED N. WHEELER, Clerk.
Received for record August 5th, A. D. 1932 at 5:30 o'clock P. M.
and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I, JULIA A. COLE, formerly of the
Town of Stonington, County of New London, State of Connecticut, now residing at
the MASONIC HOME in the Town of Wallingford, County of New Haven, State of
Connecticut, hereinafter called the grantor, in consideration of Ten Dollars
and other valuable considerations to me paid by THE MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION
OF CONNECTICUT, a Charitable corporation, organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Connecticut, and having its office at the Masonic Home in said
Town of Wallingford, hereinafter called the Grantee, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the
said Grantee, and its successors and assigns forever, an one-half interest in
a certain lot or parcel of land situate in the Town of Charlestown in the Washington
County, State of Rhode Island, being laid out and designated as lot numbered
10 (ten) on that plat entitled "Plan of Land owned by J. A. Burdick Quonnoquippong,
R.I.N.A. Henson Civil Engineer 1906" which plat was recorded in the office of the
Town Clerk in said Charlestown August 25, 1908 at 10 A. M. and filed in
Pigeon Hole #2. Said lot is bounded and described as follows:
Commencing at the northwest corner thereof on the Southerly side
of Surfside Drive being the northeasterly corner of Lot #9;
thence easterly bounding northerly on Surfside Drive fifty (50)
feet to the northeasterly corner of Lot #10; thence southerly
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bounding easterly along the easterly line of said lot 10 being
land now or formerly of Jane Binnsir one hundred fifty (150)
feet more or less to the Atlantic Ocean; thence westerly bounding
southerly by the Atlantic Ocean; (do) feet in the southeast
corner of lot #9; thence northerly bounding westerly by said lot
#9 being land now or formerly of John Robertson one hundred fifty
(150) feet more or less to the point of beginning.
Together with a right of way from the above granted premises to the main road
as the same is now used.
Said premises were conveyed to me and Mabel L. Robertson by James A. Burdick
by deed dated November 1, 1911 and recorded in said Office in Deed Book 17, page 196.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and
appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantee, and its
successors and assigns, forever.
And I the said Grantor, do hereby for myself and my heirs and executors and
administrators, covenant with the said Grantee and its successors and assigns that I
am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free
from all incumbrances; that i have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell
and convey the same in manner as aforesaid; that the said Grantee and its successors
and assigns shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have
and enjoy the said premises, and that I the said Grantor will, and my heirs, executors
and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and its
successors and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29 day of July
in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.
Signed and Sealed in
presence of
_________________
DOROTHY M. WALLEN
ELIZABETH W. BACON
_________________
JULIA A. COLE (L. S.)
(REVENUE STAMP .50¢)
STATE OF CONNECTICUT } ss Wallingford, July 29, 1932.
COUNTY OF NEW HAVEN }
In Wallingford on the 29th day of July, A. D. 1932 before me personally
appeared Julia A. Cole to me known and known by me to be the party executing the foregoing
instrument, and acknowledged said instrument, by me executed to be her free act and deed.
ELIZABETH W. BACON
NOTARY PUBLIC.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } SS.
COUNTY OF NEW HAVEN }
I, ALPHON N. WHEELAN, Clerk of the Superior Court, the same being a court of
record, within and for said county and State, and the officer authorized by the laws of
the State of Connecticut to make the following certificate of the county of New Haven
do hereby certify
That Elizabeth W. Bacon, Notary, whose name is subscribed to the annexed
instrument and thereon written, and before whom the annexed acknowledgment, oath, or
affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking such acknowledgment, oath, or affidavit
a NOTARY PUBLIC in and for said county of New Haven, residing in said county, duly
authorized to take the same, and the officer duly authorized by the laws of said State
to take and certify and the acknowledgment and proof of deed to be recorded in said State;
and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such officer, and verify
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believe that the signature to such acknowledgment, Jurat, or certificate is genuine.
And I further certify that the impression of seals of Notary Publics is not required
by Law to be filed in my office.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court,
at New Haven, Connecticut, this 1st day of August A. D. 1932.
ALFRED N. WHEELER, Clerk (L. S.)
Received for record August 5th, A. D. 1932 at 5:35 o'clock P. M. and
recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Alfred A. Gobeille, of the
Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for value
received, hereby release, quitclaim, and cancel all notes, leases, mortgages and
obligations due me by Edmond I. Tougas, of said Town, County and State, from the
beginning of the world to the date of these presents.
ALFRED GOBEILLE.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
County of Washington }
In Charlestown on the 25th day of July, A. D. 1932, before me personally
appeared Alfred A. Gobeille, to me known and known by me to be the person executing
the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed to
be his free act and deed.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public.
Received for record, July 25th, A. D. 1932 at 9:30 o'clock A. M. and
recorded by [Signature]
Town Clerk.