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4/23/1938 · DEED · book 27 page 304 doc 97@27/304

From SMEDBERG HANNA
To KEMPPI EINO
Premises one hundred and forty acres more or less · tract with dwelling house and outbuildings (Charlestown, Southmore Road, Bullington Reservation Land)
Index description SEE DOC

Back — where this land came from

deed Eva M. Hepburn book 24 p 173 Charlestown
“purchased from Eva M. Hepburn April 12th, 1932 and recorded in Book 24, page 173”
◀ Follow back 1930 · DEED · TILLINGHAST EDWARD M → HOLT HATTIE C · book 24 p 173
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deed HANNA
“conveyed by HANNA to HANNA SMEDBERG on the 18th day of November 1930”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
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Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1938 · LEASE · KEMPPI EINO → HEIDEN HUGO · book 27 p 324
▶ 1946 · AGREEMENT · KEMPPI EINO → NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY · book 30 p 257
▶ 1966 · DEED · KEMPPI EINO; KEMPPI EINO W; KEMPPI SYLVIA F → CASTLE REALTY CO · book 41 p 26
▶ 1971 · DEED · KEMPPI EINO; KEMPPI EINO W; KEMPPI SYLVIA F → DOBSON HERBERT JR; DOBSON JANET M · book 44 p 417

The instrument's own words

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304 THIS INDENTURE, Made the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight Between HANNA SMEDBERG of 541 West 144th Street, New York City, and EINO KEMPPI, of 745 West 175th Street, County of Bronx, City and State of New York party of the second part, WITNESSETH, that the party of the first part, in consideration of ten Dollars, lawful money of the United States, and other valuable consideration paid by the party of the second part, does hereby grant and release unto the party of the second part his Heirs and assigns forever, All that one certain tract of land situated in said Charlestown containing by estimation one hundred and forty acres more or less with a dwelling house and outbuildings thereon including roads. Bounded on North line on the north by Farnham's land, by Penney's on the northeast by land of William Hubala and Michelia Sabucco, on the south by Southmore Road, and on the west by the land of [?] . Being a part of the land of the property purchased from Eva M. Hepburn April 12th, 1932 and recorded in Book 24, page 173 of the land evidence book of Charlestown, and being a part of the property said to and deeds the second thereof herby made and made and the same are a part of the premises herby conveyed to me and conveyed by HANNA to HANNA SMEDBERG on the 18th day of November 1930 and recorded on the 19th day of December 1930 in the land evidence book of Charlestown, and part of the land of Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, except that part of said land which was appropriated by the State of Rhode Island for the Bullington Reservation Land in 1931. TOGETHER with the appurtenances and all the estate and rights of the party of the first part in and to said premises. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the premises herein granted unto the party of the second part, his Heirs and assigns, forever. The grantor in compliance with Section 13 of the Lien Law, covenants that the grantor will receive the consideration for this Conveyance as a trust fund to be applied first for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvement and that the grantor will apply the same first to the payment of the cost of the improvement before using any part of the total of the same for any other purpose. And the said HANNA SMEDBERG covenants as follows: That said HANNA SMEDBERG is seized of the said premises in fee simple, and has good right to convey the same, SECOND.-- That the party of the second part shall quietly enjoy the said premises; THIRD.-- That the said premises are free from incumbrances; except first mortgage laid by New England Trust of Springfield, Massachusetts in the sum of Four Hundred and Sixty Five Dollars ($465.00) FOURTH.-- That the party of the first part will execute or procure any fur- ther assurance of the title to the said premises; FIFTH.-- That said HANNA SMEDBERG will forever warrant the title to said premises. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the party of the first part has hereunder set her hand and seal the day and year first above written IN PRESENCE OF: HANNA SMEDBERG L. S. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS, $2.00) STATE OF NEW YORK } COUNTY OF NEW YORK } ss.: On the 1st day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-8 before me came HANNA SMEDBERG to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who executed, the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. JOSEPH LIEBER Notary Public, N.Y.Co. No. 168, Reg. No. 3-L-170 Cert. Title Kings Co. No. 140 Reg. No. 222 Commission expires March 30, 1940.
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STATE of NEW YORK } COUNTY of NEW YORK } ss. No 71056 I, ARCHIBALD N. WATSON, Clerk of the County of New York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for the said County, the same being a Court of Record, having a seal, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Joseph [?] [?], a Notary Public in and for said County, has certified the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such deposition, or proof and acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for such County, duly appointed and commissioned, and that he is authorized by the laws of said State, and able to administer oaths to be used in any Court of said State and for general purposes; and also to take acknowledgments and proofs of deeds and mortgages and other instruments, in the State of New York. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Notary Public, and verily believe the same to be genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 2 day of April 1938. ARCHIBALD N. WATSON, Clerk (SEAL) Received for record April 23rd, A. D. 1938 at 3:59 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk ---- I, Gladys C. Best, unmarried, of the City of Worcester, County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereinafter called the Grantor, for consideration paid, grant to Lila C. Crapo, of the City of Hartford, County of Hartford, State of Connecticut, hereinafter called the Grantee, with WARRANTY COVENANTS A certain tract or parcel of land situated and being in the Town of Charlestown, in the County of Washington, State of Rhode Island and bounded and described as follows, to wit: Lot numbered one hundred thirty (130) as shown on a certain plan or plat entitled, "Plan of Cononiquogue Central Beach, Charlestown, R. I., Thompson Traders Inc.", dated and recorded October 1935, in Land Evidence Book 26, Annex, Page Revised, to Sept. 1935, " 592". Said plan or being filed on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Town of Charlestown. Said Grantee, her heirs and assigns shall have the right to the use of a road, 20 feet wide and full width of right of way on roads or on streets, or on alleys, and on Across those certain roads her rights of way or roads as shown on said plan and as recorded in said public register of deeds, and further the rights of way leading to the beach and also the right of way leading from the road to the fresh water spring on said lot, and such other roads as may be hereafter designated for public use; and the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, will shall pay to Thompson Traders Inc., and its heirs and assigns, the said sum of Five ($5) Dollars for such right of way, and further the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, on or before the first day of August in each year hereafter, the sum of Five ($5) Dollars for such right of way, and further the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, shall pay toward maintenance of said road and other roads as may be hereafter designated for public use, and the said sums agreed to be paid by her and her heirs and assigns, in case of failure to make any payment within ten days after the same shall become due and payable said sum for each such payment shall be paid to Edward S. Thorp, his heirs and assigns, to sell and convey the premises at Public Auction first date of May each year, and the highest bidder shall be entitled to purchase the premises at Washington, in least once each week for three successive weeks, and to become the purchaser premises at a price not less than the amount of the mortgage and interest due to the following conditions and restrictions, namely: 1. In case of a contemplated sale of said lot or parcel of land or part thereof, the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns, shall first notify the Grantor, and given ten days notice in writing and shall have the first option to purchase the same with the building and improvements there on shall have the right to purchase in good faith and actually offered to the said Grantee, her heirs and assigns. 2. The above conveyed premises shall be used only and solely for one dwellinghouse on the said lot her heirs, conveys, and assigns, as erected or to be erected on premises in accordance with the building lines as shown on said plat, and no portion of the said lot or dwellinghouse (porch included) shall approach the street or oceans or ocean front nearer than 30 feet; no building shall be erected on said lot nearer than 20 feet to the neighbor approach the side lines of the lot nearer than five feet therefore; no detaches garage or other building shall be erected on said lot nearer than twenty feet toward ocean; and no building on said lot shall cost when completed not less than One Thousand (1000) Dollars; all toilets be a bath toilet shall be inside the dwellinghouse and shall be such that no possible cesspool be constructed and the amenities on the above premises by the Grantee, her heirs or assigns, at their own cost and expense.

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