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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that We, Elmer M. Weiss and James J. Murtagh,
of the Towns of Charlestown and Richmond, respectively, in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, owning business under the name of Murtagh Weiss Company, herein-
after called the Grantors in consideration of Ten Dollars, to us paid by Ross E. Browning
of Providence in the County of Providence in said State, hereinafter called the Grantee,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and
convey unto the said Grantee, and his heirs and assigns forever,
A certain tract of beach and marsh land situate at Charlestown
Beach in the Town of Charlestown in the County of Washington in the
State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound set in the ground in the northerly
line of the highway, thence northerly bounding easterly on other
land, a course south 81° 30' west, a distance of ninety-four (94) feet,
more or less to a stone bound set in the ground in the south-
easterly line of the highway, thence curving in at interior angle
of 66° 22' 30" and running southeasterly bounding southerly on sail
other land of these Grantors one hundred sixty-one and 54/100 (161.54)
feet more or less to a stone bound set in the ground in the south-
line of said property highway thence turning in an interior angle of
59° 11' 20" and running southwesterly bounding west and foreyly on
land of Harold B. Corey through a stone bound set in the ground in the west-
erly line of said Corey's land a distance of one hundred twenty-one and 18/100 (121.18)
feet more or less to a point near the point of a leaf of dead listing,
thence curving in at interior angle of 118° 15' 10" of the channel give
southeasterly bounding westerly on land of this Grantee six hundred fifty-
seven and 11/100 (657.11) feet more or less to a point in the northerly
line of the highway Six and 19/100 (6.15) feet more or less to the point or
place of beginning. This is a part of a larger tract of land described
in that certain deed from Asa Church to said grantors under the name of
Murtagh Weiss Company dated May 23, 1931, and recorded in the registry
of land situated in said Town of Charlestown in Book 90, Page 44, nunc pro tunc.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforesaid premises, with all the rights, privi-
leges and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and to the use of the said Grantee,
his and his heirs and assigns, forever.
And we the said Grantors, do hereby, for ourselves and for our heirs, execu-
tors, and administrators, covenant with the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns that
we are lawfully seised in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free
from all incumbrances; that we have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell
and convey the same in a manner aforesaid; that the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns
shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the
said premises, and that, we the said Grantors will, and our heirs, executors and admin-
istrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns
forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
And for the consideration aforesaid, I, the grantor Elmer M. Weiss, covenant
with the said grantee and his heirs and assigns that I am unmarried.
And for the consideration aforesaid l, Harriet Murtagh, wife of the grantor
James J. Murtagh, do hereby release all my right of dower and statutory rights in and to
the said granted premises unto the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns, forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals and seal this second day
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.
Executed in presence of the
LINTON L. BROWN
(INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP, 50c)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
County of Washington )
On Charlestown on the second day of May, A. D., 1934 before me personally ap-
peared the above named grantors Elmer M. Weiss, James J. Murtagh and his wife Hattie E.
Murtagh, 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.
ELMER MAX WEISS (SEAL)
JAMES J. MURTAGH (SEAL)
HATTIE B. MURTAGH (SEAL)
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public.
Received for record May 2nd, A. D. 1934 at 9:15 o'clock p. m., and recorded by:
Town Clerk.
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