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09/23/09 WED 14:00 FAX 401 364 1238 TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN 002
BOOK 26 PAGE 157
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, WILLARD M. HOXSIE, of the Town of Charlestown
in the State of Rhode Island, hereinafter called the Grantor, in consideration of the sum of
Ten (10) dollars to me paid by LUCY A. HOXSIE of said Town and State, hereinafter called the
Grantee, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever QUIT-
CLAIM unto her the said grantee, her heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title, interest
property, claim and demand which I now have, or of right ought to have, or claim, in and to
That certain farm with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Town of
Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, containing 120 acres, more or less, on both sides of
the Post Road leading from Wakefield to Westerly, bounding northerly on land formerly of Samuel
B. Hoxsie, and land formerly of Jared Babcock; easterly on land formerly of the heirs of John
Stanton, and land formerly of Samuel Browning; southerly on Charlestown Pond, and westerly on
land formerly of Samuel B. Hoxsie.
Being the same land premises conveyed to Joseph M. Hoxsie and Asa T. Hoxsie, Jr. by two
deeds: one from Henry S. Clark et al., dated April 18, 1851, and recorded in the Records of Land
Evidence in said Town of Charlestown is Deed Book 12 at page 256, and one from Anna B. Clark,
Guardian, dated April 18, 1851, and recorded in said records in Deed Book 12 at page 257.
TO HAVE AND To HOLD the same, with all rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto
appertaining, unto and to the use of her the said grantee, her heirs and assigns forever.
And I and the aforementioned grantor, for myself, and for my heirs, executors, and administrators,
do covenant with the said grantee, her heirs and assigns, that I will warrant and defend the
aforedescribed premises unto the said grantee, her heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful
claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through, or under me.
And I, Edith M. Hoxsie, Wife of the said Willard M. Hoxsie, in consideration of the sum,
paid as aforesaid, do hereby release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee, her heirs and
assigns, all my right of dower in and to the aforementioned premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 13th day of May
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty five (1935)
Signed and Sealed in the presence of )
ANNA WHITMORE } WILLARD M. HOXSIE (SEAL)
EDITH M. HOXSIE (SEAL)
STATE OF NEW YORK,
COUNTY OF ROCKLAND
In Stoatsburg on the 13th day of May, A. D. 1935 before me personally appeared
the above named grantor, Willard M. Hoxsie and Edith M. Hoxsie, his wife, both of them to me
known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged
said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
ANNA WHITMORE
Notary Public
Rockland Co., N. Y.
Received for record August 20th, A. D. 1935 at 11:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk.