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I, RICHARD A. RATHBONE, of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to MARY A. RUSSELL, of the City of Gardner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with WARRANTY COVENANTS
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
That certain tract or parcel of land, situate and being on the northerly side of the State Highway, commonly known as the "Post Road, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the point on the northerly side of said State Highway, at the southeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed and at the southeasterly corner of the premises conveyed to me by Dobson; thence running northerly, bounded westerly by said Dobson land, a distance of One Hundred (100) feet, more or less; then running easterly, a drive into the ground; thence running easterly, bounded northerly by other land of this Grantor, a distance of five Hundred (500) feet, more or less, to another iron pipe driven into the ground; thence running southerly, bounded easterly by another iron pipe driven into the ground; thence running southerly, bounded easterly by another iron pipe driven into the ground; a distance of Seventy-five (75) feet, more or less, to a Rhode Island Highway Bound, set in the ground on the northerly side of said State Highway; thence running westerly, bounded southerly by said State Highway, a distance of Five Hundred Twenty-five (525) feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described.
In consideration of the purchase price of this deed the Grantee is hereby granted an option to purchase, at the highest bona fide price actually offered the transfer donor, a parcel of land lying directly north of the above described tract and extending northerly until it comes to the southerly line of a property bounded on the south by now laid out or to be laid out and crossing or to cross premises of the Grantor in an easterly and westerly direction. This option shall expire January 1, 1950.
I, Richard A. Rathbone, hereby covenant that I am unmarried.
WITNESS my hand this 5th day of December, 1947.
RICHARD A. RATHBONE
(DOCUMENTARY STAMPS, $1.10)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington }
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In Charlestown, on the 5th day of December, 1947 before me personally appeared Richard A. Rathbone, to me known and known by me to be the party 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 April 12th, A. D. 1948 at 10 o'clock, a. m., and recorded
by [Signature]
Town Clerk
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