The instrument's own words
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To all people to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Joseph Mc Shannin of deliberation in the County of Washington and State of
Rhode Island
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That I the said Joseph Mc Shannin [illegible] for and in consideration of the sum of
sixteen hundred dollars to me
in hand before the ensuing hereof well and truly paid by
the Worthy Savings Bank of Westerly in the County and State aforesaid
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and say contented paid and satisfied; and thereof and of every part and parcel
thereof do remise release and acquit by these presents; and for myself my heirs executors and administrators said land shall be absolutely conveyed and construed; and
by these presents do freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien enfeoff convey and confirm unto
hence and assign forever
the Worthy Savings Bank its successors
a certain lot or piece of land situated, located and lying in said town of Westerly in the
village of Carolina With boundaries as follows: Beginning at the [illegible] water two rods more or less with all the
buildings & improvements thereon called the Worthy Savings Bank as follows: beginning at the [illegible] line beginning at the
Southwest corner of a lot called Thomas A Fisher's in the said town lying parallel from the
Northwest corner of the Carolina Depot North West 1° East to the fence 23 rods 22 links bounded Northwest
Northwesterly 20 rods on the fence of R & 8 cents & 22 links on land of the Westerly manufacturing
Company thence South 8° West 12 rods thence Southerly 63 1/2 West 21 rods & 18 links bounded
Easterly & Southerly on land of said Manufacturing Company thence North 25° West to
the place of beginning 18 rods and 6 links bounding Westerly on the highway leading to
Carolina Depot.
To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to it
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Worthy Savings Bank its successors
hence and assigns forever to them their heirs and their purely for people benefit and belief forever. And I
Joseph Mc Shannin [illegible] for myself my
heirs executors and administrators
do covenant promise and grant that I and the said [illegible] the rightful owner and the true sole and lawful owner of the above enlarged
premises and assigns and that at the full and honest executing hereof and the true sole and lawful owner of the above enlarged
premises and assigns and that at the full and honest executing hereof and the true sole and lawful owner of the above enlarged
premises in fee simple and that the said premises are free from all incumbrances what so ever and that I have full power to alien
premises in manner and assignment. and that said Worthy Savings Bank its successors
hence and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter by virtue of these presents irrevocably
and absolutely have and hold the said premises with all its appurtenances for their own use and benefit forever clear and free and
quietly enjoyed without embarrassment or charge and from all and all manner of forever or other grants grants servants sales leases mortgages will
entails jointures dowries judgments executions and sequestrations of what name or nature whatsoever near that in any measure or degree or
abstract contrary to these presents. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day AD 1870
in the year of two thousand selected.
Furthermore the
said [illegible] for myself my
heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above claimed
premises to them the said Worthy Savings Bank its successors
hence and assigns
against the lawful claims or demands of any Person or persons whatever forever to warrant and defend the same by these presents. Witness
the same.
Notary approved. The condition of this deed is such that if the said Joseph
Mc Shannin or any person for or hire shall will and truly pay or tender truly pay
according to the terms and tenor and thereof a certain promissory note for the sum of
sixteen hundred dollars of new york state honestly signed by me said Joseph Mc Shannin
payable to said corporation or order thirty days from date at the Washington
Bank & all renewals thereof with interest and exchange in case evidence this
deed shall be void, otherwise, to he and remain in full force & virtue. Gentlemen
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I the said Joseph H. Thrasher do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel N. Cross Commissioner
of said Corporation or his successors or successors in office during my office time my true and lawfully attorney endowed
with full power of substitution & resuscitation at any time after said note & promissory thereof
said he have here due & payable unpaid for the space of ten days in my name or in
his or his successors to sell said premises at public auction first giving notice thereof
for at least three weeks in some newspaper of said state and after such sale shall make
my name or in the name of his successors execute a good & sufficient deed to sell
premises with the usual covenants of Warranty to be as act in the purchase or purchasers
as wrote in off simple for the premises and any collect and receive the purchase money
and after having all the costs and expenses of said sale and the said notes and interest
to him paying me the residue of any to me or to my heirs or assigns hereby ratifying and
confirming all things lawfully done by my said Attorney or attorneys for the purposes aforesaid
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of May AD 1865
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence
Samuel N. Cross
Joseph H. Thrasher S.S.
State of Rhode Island or
County of Providence
Washington dc
May 1st 1865
The forenamed appeared Joseph H. Thrasher do acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by him signed & sealed and sealed to be the free act and deed
Before me Samuel N. Cross Town Clerk
[illegible]
$2.00
Recorded for Deed Book 9 K 1865
at 1 o'clock A.M. and Received by Obadiah Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I James L. Ward of Wickford village
in County of Providence state of Rhode Island aforesaid as of late Owner landlord
to said John S. Foley County of Kent merchant in the town of East Greenwich grants
acknowledging the receipt hereby given granted bargained and sold and hereby grants
conveys all conveyed confirm unto the said John S. Foley his heirs & assigns forever a certain tract
of land lying in East Greenwich in the town of East Greenwich by cultivation extending north to the
sea more or less or with a dwelling house and other buildings thereon standing and be bounded as follows
North with the beach & South with the property of Caleb Low in common with Caleb Low & bounded on Eastly
with the property of [illegible] and on the West with the property of [illegible] To have and to hold
the same with the rights heritages and appurtenances thereof to him his heirs and assigns forever
And the grantor for himself his heirs executors & administrators doth covenant grant and with the
grantee and his heirs exceed executors & administrations and any other person or persons that shall
and lawful come by the dominated premises granted and conveyed pressed in witness of the right present on the right
and with good right lawfully promised to sell and convey the same in such manner that the grantee
in some and assigns shall enjoy and at all times forever by peace from any harassment and rightful possession
and enjoyment of said premises free and clear of all other title grants sales commitments and on that the
grantor his heirs executors and administrators the said premises is the said grantee his heirs and assigns
quietly The lawful claims and demands of all persons to the state Rhode Island forever warrant secure and
defend Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of this 20th day of July AD 1865
S.S.
In presence of
Louis L. Currie
James L. Ward S.S.
Joseph H. Thrasher
Washington sc Certification July 20th 1865 Personally came before me James
Joseph H. Thrasher L. Ward and acknowledged the preceding instrument by him signed to be his
free and voluntary act
Joseph H. Thrasher Justice of the Peace
Recorded for Deed Book 11 L 1865 at 1 o'clock P.M. and received by Obadiah Cross Town Clerk
[illegible]
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