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9/14/1938 · MORTGAGE · book 27 page 422 doc 201@27/422

From SMITH JOHN W life, SMITH MABEL F life
To BROWN ALBERT E life
Premises none · tract on southeasterly side of State Highway (Charlestown, Wood River Junction)
Index description SEE DOC
Also on this page: MORTGAGE DISCHARGE SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL F

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1938 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL P · book 27 p 358
◀ 1937 · DEED · TUCKER IVAH B; TUCKER LOUIS G → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL F · book 26 p 597

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 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → PIETILA MARY K; PIETILA MICHAEL · book 27 p 273
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → MAYO FRANCES; MAYO JAMES · book 27 p 287
▶ 1938 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → BRIGHTMAN ALICE M; BRIGHTMAN CHARLES S; BRIGHTMAN HENRY S · book 27 p 308
▶ 1938 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL P · book 27 p 358
▶ 1940 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SAUNDERS ALBERT A; SAUNDERS NELLIE F · book 25 p 686
▶ 1942 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → SMITH JOHN W; SMITH MABEL F · book 27 p 422
▶ 1942 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → ODONNELL EUGENE C; ODONNELL RUTH M · book 28 p 623
▶ 1942 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → TUCKER IVAH B; TUCKER LOUIS G · book 28 p 629
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → MALLOY EDITH L; MALLOY JOSEPH M · book 29 p 47
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → WEBSTER MABEL F; WEBSTER CHARLES C · book 29 p 120
▶ 1943 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → BERESFORD CORA K; BERESFORD ERNEST R · book 29 p 149
▶ 1943 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · BROWN ALBERT E → WOODMANSEE FRANCES M; WOODMANSEE JOHN E · book 26 p 601
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E; BROWN EDWARD C DECEASED → WRIGHT FLORENCE A; WRIGHT HIRAM L · book 29 p 171
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E · book 29 p 181
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → WILLIAMS CHARLES H; WILLIAMS MAXINE H · book 29 p 216
▶ 1944 · DEED · BROWN ALBERT E → CROSS CELIA M; CROSS WILLIAM D; BARBER EMMA E · book 29 p 295

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
422 We, John W. Smith and Mabel F. Smith, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to ALBERT E. BROWN, of said Town, County and State with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of FIFTEEN HUNDRED ---$/1500 Dollars in four (4) years with interest at six (6) per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date herewith That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: A certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings with the improvements thereon situated on the southeasterly side of the State Highway leading from the Village of Charlestown to the Wood River Junction, in said town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point at the northeasterly corner of the tract here- by conveyed, and at the same time at the corner of the property of Clinton L. Palmer, east wall, and said point bearing: on the southerly side of said State Highway then southerly 111 feet to a stone wall, thence easterly a distance of three hundred fifty (350) feet; thence westerly, at right angles, bounded easterly by land of Louis G. Tuckey, et ux, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet; thence northerly a distance of three hundred fifty (350) feet to land of Louis W. Tuckey, et ux a distance of three hundred fifty (350) feet, there to a stone wall, and thence easterly, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet to said State Highway, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet, to the point of the beginning, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described. This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION AND WITH THE STATUTORY POWER OF SALE. WITNESS our hands this 12th day of September, 1938. JOHN W. SMITH MABEL F. SMITH STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington ) In Charlestown on the 12th day of September, 1938 before me personally appeared John W. Smith and Mabel F. Smith, husband and wife, both 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. LINTON L. BROWN Notary Public. Received for record September 14th, A. D. 1938 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk I, the undersigned, having received full payment and Satisfaction of the within mortgage, recorded in the records of Land Evidence in the Town of Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, in Land Evidence Book No. 27 at page 422, hereby cancel and discharge same. And I further certify that I am the present owner of said mortgage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of October 1942. ALBERT E. BROWN (SEAL) Above discharge received for record October 28th, A. D. 1942 at 1:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [signature] Town Clerk

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