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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Wallace E. Burdick, of Charlestown, Rhode Island, (hereinafter called the mortgagor), in consideration of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars, to me paid by WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY, a corporation created by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, and located and transacting business in the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, in said State, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said Wakefield Trust Company, its successors and assigns forever:
That certain tract or parcel of land, with all buildings and improvements thereon situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island bonded, and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the westerly side of the Town Highway commonly called Wakefield-North Kingstown Road, at the intersection of a stone wall, said point being the southeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed or of the premises formerly owned by Eleanor G. Burdick, the boundary running thence northerly, forty-five feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of premises now or formerly owned by Eleanor G. Burdick, thence running southerly, along the said stone wall, in a southerly direction, bounded southerly thence following said stone wall, bounded easterly by said stone wall, a distance of 175 feet, more or less, to a stone post, thence running in a westerly direction, bounded southerly by land now or formerly owned by said Burdick, a distance of 175 feet, more or less, to a stone post, thence running northerly, bounded easterly by said stone wall, a distance of 62 feet, more or less, to said wall, bounded westerly by land now or said Burdick, a distance of 62 feet, more or less, to said wall, thence running easterly, along said wall, a distance of 175 feet, more or less, along another wall, a distance of 400 feet, more or less, or until it comes to course of all walls therein, the boundary running in a general northerly direction, bounded southeasterly and southerly, direction bounded easterly by said Town Highway, a distance of 350 feet, more or less, to the southeasterly corner of legitimacy [?] otherwise the same may be bounded and described. Being the southerly portion of Lot No. 13 on a subdivision of Plat's Rot No. 17, on file in the Town Clerk's Office of said Town of Charlestown.
The hereby conveyed premises are the same premises conveyed from Marion G. Burdick and Bessie E. Jones to Wallace E. Burdick by deed dated August 19, 1946 and recorded in the Land Evidence Books of said Town of Charlestown in Book Ro. 30, page 114.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the aforementioned premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto and to the use of the said WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY, its successors and assigns, forever.
And I the said mortgagor do hereby, for myself, and for my heirs, executors, administrators, covenant and swear with said WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY, its successors and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises; that the same are free from all incumbrances, that I have good right, full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in the manner as aforesaid; that said WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY, its successors and assigns, shall by these presents at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises, and that I the said mortgagor will, and my heirs, executors and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to said Wakefield Trust Company, its successors and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
And for the consideration aforesaid, I, Glenna M. Burdick, wife of the said mortgagor, do hereby expressly release all my right of dower in and to the said granted premises unto said Wakefield Trust Company, its successors and assigns, forever.
PROVIDED, NEVERTHELESS, and this conveyance is made upon the express condition, that if I the said mortgagor, or my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall pay unto said Wakefield Trust Company, its successors or assigns, the sum of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars, wherever for I the said mortgagor made my negotiable promissory note for said aggregate sum, bearing even date with these presents and made payable to the order of the said Wakefield Trust Company, one year from the date hereof, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually in advance until said principal sum is paid, whether at or after maturity, and all installments of interest in arrear, whether before or after maturity, to bear interest at the rate aforesaid until paid, and shall also pay all taxes and assessments of any kind levied or assessed upon or in respect of said premises, or in respect of said mortgage, which said Wakefield Trust Company, its successors or assigns, may be called upon to pay, whether assessed under statutes now in force or that may be subsequently enacted then this deed as also said promissory note shall become and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
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that the premium or premiums paid therefor shall be a further charge upon said granted
premises, secured by these presents as aforesaid
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 13th day of May
A. D. one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.
Signed, sealed and delivered } WALLACE E. BURDICK (SEAL)
in presence of: } GLENNA M. BURDICK (SEAL)
Leroy C. Whitford }
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, )
County of Washington, )
}
In South Kingstown, on the 13th day of May, A. D. 1948, before me personally ap-
peared the above named Wallace E. Burdick and his wife, Glenna M. Burdick, each to me known
and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they each ack-
nowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
LEROY C. WHITFORD
Notary Public.
Received for record May 18th, A. D. 1948 at 9:35 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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THE WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY in South Kingstown, having received full payment and satisfaction
of the within mortgage, does hereby cancel and discharge the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, said Trust Company has caused these presents to be signed and its Cor-
porate Seal to be hereunto affixed by the Treasurer thereof, duly authorized this 25th day
of April A. D. 1950.
Signed and Sealed in presence of } WAKEFIELD TRUST COMPANY (Corporate Seal)
Margaret B. Walker } Richard A. Helliwell
Treasurer
Received for record April 27th, A. D. 1950 at 9:05 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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