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M O R T G A G E D E E D
TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
KNOW YE, That We, JOSEPH J. SZYDLOWSKI and MARGARET BLISS SZYDLOWSKI, husband and wife,
of the Town of Attleboro, County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, for consideration paid,
grant to FRITZ J. SWANSON and ERNESTINE SWANSON, husband and wife, of Shelter Harbor, in the
Town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to
secure the payment of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) Dollars in Ten years with interest at
Five per centum per annum, payable in monthly payments of Two hundred sixty-five Dollar and
eighteen cents ($265.18) each as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of oven date
herewith that certain tract or parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon
standing, known as the " OLD WILCOX TAVERN", situated on the northerly side of the State Highway
known as the Post Road, in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island,
and bounded and described as follows, to wit: above:
BEGINNING at a point in the northerly line of the Highway known as Post Road,
Route 0. S. 1, said point being marked by a Rhode Island Highway Department marker;
Point being also the beginning of a line forming the tract herein described thence turning
an interior angle of 186° 34' and said line running northerly with said northerly line of Post
Road 30.0' to a steel pipe with a drill hole in a boundary hedge; thence turning
interior an angle of 91° 06' and running easterly a distance of 81.30 feet
to a steel pipe with a drill hole in a boundary hedge; thence turning an interior angle of
32° and running northerly a distance of 28.99 feet to a drill hole at a wall
corner; thence turning an interior angle of 151° 11' and running easterly an interior
distance of 165.30 feet to an oak hub; thence turning an interior angle of 174° 29' and
running northerly 111.10 feet to a steel pipe with a drill hole in a boundary hedge;
a wall intersection; thence turning an interior angle of 101° 21' and running
northerly 111.10 feet to an oak hub; thence turning an interior angle of 68° 53' with an
interior angle of 101° 21' and running northerly 111.10 feet to an oak hub at a wall inter-
section; thence turning an interior angle of 68° 53' and running easterly a distance of
259.40 feet to an oak hub set in the northerly line of land of Thomas
J. Clarke; thence turning an interior angle of 111° 11' and running southerly a
distance of 99.79 feet to an oak hub; thence turning an interior angle of 26° 12' and
running south 34° east a distance of 111.10 feet to an iron pipe at a wall corner;
northerly line of the Post Road; thence last two courses bounding southerly and
easterly on said road; thence turning an interior angle of 141° 11' and running south 40°
00 and running westerly and with said northerly line of the Post Road a distance of
100' and running westerly and with said northerly line of Post Road a distance of
170° 52' and continuing westerly and with said northerly line of Post Road a
distance of 137.87 feet to a steel pipe with a drill hole in a boundary hedge; thence turning a
distance of 83.25' and continuing westerly and with said northerly line of Post Road a
distance of 183.25' and continuing westerly and with said northerly line of Post Road a
distance of 31.36' to return to the point and place of beginning. This tract contains
an area of 2,7067 acres.
Reserving, however, a five foot right of way to pass and repass, on foot or in vehicle of any
kind and description from said Highway to the house whatever, over and upon a certain
strip of land which is demarcated for a five foot roadway, and runs across the hereditaments
premises east to the easterly line.
The parcel hereby conveyed, and the said right of way, is further shown and delineated
on a PLAN SHOWING PROPERTY OF FRITZ J. SWANSON AND WIFE WITH THE OLD WILCOX TAVERN,
Charlestown, R. I., Post Road, dated Dec. 6th, Oct. 29, 1952, by [?] S. [?] Sanson,
"Civil Engineer", which plan is to be recorded with the deed that precedes this
present mortgage.
Meaning and intending to convey and to lease the same and all of the premises conveyed to these mor-
gages by those mortgages by deed of oven date.
THIS MORTGAGE IS MADE UPON THE STATUTORY CONDITION AND WITH THE STATUTORY POWER OF SALE
AS AUTHORIZED BY CHAPTER 436, OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF RHODE ISLAND, 1938.
however, if within one year from the date of the execution of these presents, and of
a certain negotiable promissory note of oven date, the Mortgagors tender to the Mortgages
the remaining balance of principal and accrued interest, less Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, the
Mortgages will accept such tender, allowing the Mortgagors the discount of the said $5,000.00,
as full accord and satisfaction, and the same will release the Mortgagors from all obligations
arising out of from this mortgage and said note, and the Mortgages will cause this mortgage
to be released and discharged in due and proper form, and will return said note to its makers.
Unless the above mentioned tender be made to the Mortgages or their assigns on a due date of a
monthly payment, the remaining balance due on principal and interest is to be computed as of the
next succeeding due date.
The Mortgagors, husband and wife, hold the herein-granted premises as joints tenants, and
not as tenants in common, therefore there are no rights of curtesy and/or dowry to be released.
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WITNESS our hands and seals this 20th day of February A. D. 1953.
In presence of:
Herbert W. Rathbun
Charles F. Trumpetto
JOSEPH J. SZYDLOWSKI (SEAL)
MARGARET BLISS SZYDLOWSKI (SEAL)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND }
} SS.
County of Washington }
In Westerly on the 20th day of February, 1953, before me personally appeared the
above named JOSEPH J. SZYDLOWSKI and MARGARET BLISS SZYDLOWSKI, husband and wife, the
Grantors herein, to me known and known to me to be the parties executing the foregoing
instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act
and deed.
HERBERT W. RATHBUN
Notary Public
Received for record February 21st, A. D. 1953 at 2:05 o'clock, p. m., and
recorded by [signature]
Town Clerk
We, Fritz J. Swanson and Ernestine Swanson, having received full payment and satisfaction
of the above mortgage, recorded in the land evidence records of the town of Charlestown,
in Book 33, at page 423, do hereby cancel and discharge the same; and covenant to and
with the persons making said payment, that they are the present owners of said mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, they have hereunto set their hands and seals this 23rd day of May,
A. D. 1957.
FRITZ J. SWANSON (SEAL)
ERNESTINE SWANSON (SEAL)
Received for record May 23rd, A. D. 1957 at 3:30 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [signature]
Town Clerk