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I Ephraim R. S. March 8th AD 1864
Luther Shore hereby discharge & forever cancel the within mortgage
Having this day received the entire & full pay both principal & interest
on the within described real estate & note Luther Shore
Signed in my presence on the
above date S. L. Potter
Defter Rispondson by
Luther Shore
The above discharge was received
for March 31st 1864 at
8 o'clock P.M. and recorded by "
E. H. [illegible] Town Clerk
E. R. David or original Mortgage
see page 418 & 449 This Book T
Know all men that we Ephraim Foster, Elon Peckham and Jabez Peckham
this wife of Huntington, William Foster & Oliver to Foster his wife of
this wife of Huntington, William Foster & Oliver to Foster his wife of
Rhode Island, Elon Foster and Anna A Foster his wife, Caleb Foster his wife
Perry ann Coleman & Henry G Foster of Westerly, John P Foster and Peter M. Foster
this wife upper, George G Foster and Senior W Foster of Hopkinton in the county
of Washington, Jason Foster of Narragansett, County of Providence and Barbara Foster
this wife, all in the State of Rhode Island, and Sarah Sheffield of North
Staffordshire, County of New Dunstable State of Connecticut, do hereby constitute
and appoint Thomas Foster of Westerly, County of Washington State of
Rhode Island aforesaid Power of Attorney for us in the State of Jason Foster late of
said Westerly deceased our attorney for us and in our name to lease let
sell or in any manner convey all the right title and interest whatever we
use now or may hereafter have or at law the heir of the said Jason Foster
deceased or otherwise in and to certain Real Estate situate in North
town in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island aforesaid
described as follows first the parcel first containing about one hundred and
sixty acres of land is bounded Easterly and Northerly by the Chapman
farm so called now owned by William B. Fosterly, Westerly by land of
Jason Foster and Matthew B Foster and Southerly by Chadbourne's farm
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging the said
is a lot containing twenty eight and three quarters acres bounded northerly by land
say R. R. Longton town line Southerly by land formerly owned by Samuel
and Thomas Foster’s estate and Northerly by land formerly owned by Jason
Foster the second parcel the one including seventy parts of a road
let formally known as the said Thomas Foster containing forty acres
all in the town of Westerly and history is further authorized to lease let
sell or in any manner convey the said premises or any part thereof to such person or
persons for such term and at such price or yearly rent as such as shall see fit
and for us and in our name to sell execute and deliver such deed sale
or other conveyance for the sale or disposal of the premises with such
clauses and covenants therein to be contained as our said attorney shall
think fit hereby ratifying confirming and allowing all such deeds sale or
other conveyance which shall be heretofore sealed executed and delivered
by our said Attorney concerning the premises In witness whereof we
have hereunto set our hands and seals this 26th day of January tho year 1864
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
L. P. Griffin / Witnesses to the signatures of Ephraim Foster Elon F
Joseph H Griffin) John Peckham Jabez Peckham William Foster Polon Peckham L
Foster and Celia Foster
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