The instrument's own words
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I, Francis E. Matthews, for of consideration paid, grant to Alice E. Miller,
of South Orange, New Jersey with WARRANTY COVENANTS
That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington
in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
All my right, title and interest as commoner in common under the will of my
late father Frank A. Matthews and in to
A certain tract or piece of land, together with dwelling house, barn
and other buildings thereon standing, situate at Quonochontaug Beach, in
the town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island,
island, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at northwest
corner of said land at the Beach (leading from Ocean to Salt Pond,
thence running southeasterly by the beach land now or formerly of
John P. McCann and wife, about two hundred feet (200) to the north-
easterly corner of said land at the beach, thence running westerly
thence running southerly bordered southeasterly by said highway ninety (90)
feet thence southerly by the beach land, thence running westerly
bounded southerly by said land now or formerly of James Blakey and wife
to the southeasterly corner of said land at the Beach, about two hundred
(200) feet (be the same or more less), thence running northerly bound-
ed westerly by said Beach ninety (90) feet to the first mentioned bounds.
Being the same land granted to Frank A. Matthews and Isaac E. Matthews
by deed from Alfred A. White and Jane P. Vara dated October 16, 1899
and recorded in Book No. 15, Page 14 of the Records of Deeds in the
Town of Charlestown, R. I.
Also two certain tracts or parcels of land situated at Quonochontaug
Beach in the town of Charlestown in said County of Washington:
The first of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: North-
erly on lot number eleven (11) as delineated on a plot of cottage sites
located at Quonochontaug Beach, filed with the Recorder of Deeds in the
Clerk's Office in said Charlestown easterly on the second lot herein
described, southerly on lot number ten (10) on said plot, and westerly
erly on the Old Quonochontaug Beachway, being lot number ten (10)
on said plot of cottages at Quonochontaug Beach;
The second of said tracts is bounded and described as follows: Begin-
ning at the northeast corner of above lot number ten (10) hereinbefore
described thence northeasterly along the land of land now for-
merly of Alexander L. Patterson to a point forty (40) feet
west of the stone wall situate thence northerly on a line forty (40) feet
from said stone wall to a point about one hundred and forty
(140) feet (125) feet in a straight line until it comes to a point fifty (50)
feet from the western edge of the stone wall said lot number ten (10) thence
continuing westerly in the same direction about twenty six (26) feet
until it intersects the western edge of said lot number ten (10) thence
easterly or southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot
number ten (10) to the northeast corner of said lot number ten (10)
of said lot number ten (10) and beginning again to the south-
east corner of lot number ten (10) and beginning again to the south-
highway near the wall, as well as provided in Former deed of the same premises.
with a right of way with teams and on foot, and from said lot to the
Being the same land granted to Frank A. Matthews et ux by deed
from Mary Alice Date Matthews dated May 1, 1911 recorded in Book No. 18 at page
397 of the Records of Deeds in the Town of Charlestown, R. I.
And I, Irene C. Matthews wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my
right of dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands this 20th day of May 1933.
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, $2.00)
FRANCIS E. MATTHEWS
IRENE C. MATTHEWS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND)
COUNTY OF PROVIDENCE )
In Providence on the 20th day of May, 1933 before me personally appeared
Francis E. Matthews to me known and known by me to be one of the parties executing the
foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument by him executed, to be his free
act and deed.
JOHN W. RAIN
Notary Public.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Canal Zone
Cristobal, Canal Zone
Isthmus of Panama
In Cristobal, C. Z. on the fifth day of June 1933 before me personally appeared
Irene C. Matthews to me known and known by me to be one of the parties executing the
foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free
act and deed.
MAUDE W. FULLER
Notary Public within and for the Canal Zone
My Commission Expires December 9, 1933.
Balboa Heights, C. Z.,
June 7, 1933.
United States of America
Canal Zone
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone
Isthmus of Panama
I, C. A. McIlvaine, Executive Secretary for The Panama Canal, in charge of the
Seal of the Government of the Canal Zone, HEREBY CERTIFY that Maude W. Fuller was on the
fifth day of June A. D. 1933, duly commissioned as a Notary Public and that her signature is
subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and
thereom written, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a NOTARY PUBLIC of
the Canal Zone, and such proof or acknowledgment was made before her, after she had been
sworn, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am familiar with the hand-
writing of such person and that the handwriting is hers and that the signature to the said
proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And I certify that said instrument is executed and
acknowledged according to the laws in force throughout the Canal Zone.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said
Government of the Canal Zone this seventh day of June, A. D., One thousand nine hundred
and thirty-three.
C. A. MC ILVAINE.
Received for record June 28th, A. D. 1933 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and re-
corded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.