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3/20/1867 · DEED · book 9 page 196 doc 4116

From BABCOCK CHARLES BY GUARDIAN life
To PECKHAM ELISHA S life, PECKHAM ROBERT B life
Consideration four hundred and fifty dollars
Premises three hundred and forty rods · tract of land (Charlestown, Watatset)

Back — where this land came from

probate Court of Probate of the town of Watatset
“by virtue of a license from the Court of Probate of the town of Watatset”
no book and page cited; the source is named, not recorded here
read by: gemma

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

▶ 1880 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; PECKHAM ROBERT B → LARKIN ALFRED · book 10 p 512
▶ 1880 · TAX COLLECTORS DEED · CHARLESTOWN TOWN OF; PECKHAM ROBERT B → PECKHAM ELISHA S · book 10 p 519
▶ 1876 · DEED · PECKHAM ELISHA S → WEEDEN JOHN E · book 10 p 262
▶ 1893 · DEED · PECKHAM ELISHA S; PECKHAM AMY A → PECKHAM ELISHA S JR · book 12 p 495
▶ 1893 · AGREEMENT · PECKHAM ELISHA S; PECKHAM AMY A; PECKHAM ELISHA S JR → PECKHAM ELISHA S JR; PECKHAM AMY A; PECKHAM ELISHA S · book 12 p 498
▶ 1900 · MORTGAGE · PECKHAM EVA H; PECKHAM ELISHA S → WESTERLY SAVINGS BANK · book 14 p 84
▶ 1904 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · PECKHAM EVA H; WESTERLY SAVINGS BANK; PECKHAM ELISHA S → WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY · book 15 p 68
▶ 1910 · MORTGAGE · PECKHAM EVA H; PECKHAM ELISHA S → PALMER PETER P · book 16 p 421
▶ 1915 · MORTGAGE · PECKHAM EVA H; PECKHAM ELISHA S → ALDRICH WILLIAM S · book 18 p 168
▶ 1916 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · PECKHAM ELISHA S; WATROUS RALPH C ADMINISTRATOR; ALDRICH WILLIAM S EST → ALDRICH MARY E · book 18 p 382
▶ 1917 · MORTGAGE · PECKHAM EVA H; PECKHAM ELISHA S → PALMER PETER P · book 18 p 420
▶ 1921 · MORTGAGE · PECKHAM EVA H; PECKHAM ELISHA S → WALTON HENRY P · book 20 p 36
▶ 1924 · DEED · PECKHAM EVA H; LARKIN ASAHEL B; LARKIN R ANNA; LARKIN ELIZA S; PECKHAM → HEDMAN HERMAN · book 21 p 356

Bounded by

Elisha S Peckham · Elisha S Peckham · Robert B Peckham · Robert B Peckham

The instrument's own words

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196 State of Rhode Island &c Washington Co Ss In Charlestown this 11th day of September 1873 Samuel D. Feeley personally appeared before me and acknowledged the witnessed instrument by his hand signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of [illegible] By 3 o'clock P.M. and Recorded by Charles Comes Town Clerk Charles Comes Town Clerk Know all men by these presents that Bradford Bliven Guardian to this person on and estate of Caleb Babcock late of Watatset County of Rhode Island and Province Narragansett, by virtue of a license from the Court of Probate of the town of Watatset, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars paid me by Robert D. Pickham and Caleb S. Pickham of Watatset County of Rhode Island and their receipt hereof I do acknowledge by these presents do grant sell and convey unto the said Robert D. Pickham and Caleb S. Pickham their heirs and assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land situated lying and being in the town of Charlestown containing three hundred and forty rods hundred and hundred and followed as follows: beginning at the south corner of lot no 3 and running and at the corner of Celia S. Pickhams land, runs easterly and southeasterly by said Celia S. Pickhams land till it comes to the granted land, then runs easterly by and easterly by granted land till it comes to Sam Billings land, runs westerly by Northly of the Billings land till it comes to Robert D. Pickham's land, runs land, runs Easterly and Westerly as the fence runs land to the first mentioned boundary. To have and to hold the above granted premises with all the formalities and appurtenances thereto belonging hereby and for ever appertaining to the said Robert D. Pickham & Caleb S. Pickham to them, their heirs and assigns forever, and I Bradford Bliven Guardian covenant and agree with Robert D. Pickham and Caleb S. Pickham to them their heirs and assigns forever that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises and that I have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid in fee simple to them their heirs and assigns forever all right title and intent of Caleb Babcock late in and unto the above described premises or in other words of I hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of January A.D 1866 Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Courland M. Bliven Katherine M. Bliven Bradford Bliven Guardian Stamp $0.50 State of Rhode Island Washington Co Watatset January 10th 1866 Personally appeared Bradford Bliven Guardian, signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed Signed Sealed and delivered before me Benjamin York Public Notary Received for Record March 20th 1866 at 10 o'clock A.M. and recorded by Charles Comes T. Clerk
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406 also said promissory note, shall become and be absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. BUT IF DEFAULT shall be made in the payment of said principal and such default shall continue for a period of 30 days, or of said interest, at the time or times and in the manner aforesaid, or of the taxes or assessments aforesaid, as the same become payable, or of any or either of them, or of any part thereof, or if breach shall be made of the covenant for insur- ance hereinafter contained, then it shall be lawful for the said mortgagee, its successors or assigns, to sell, together or in parcels, all premises, all singular, the premises hereby granted or intended to be granted, or any part or parts thereof, and the benefit and equity of redemp- tion of the said Paul Frederick Dinwoode and Helen Elizabeth Mattson Dinwoode and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns therein, at public auction upon the premises or elsewhere at the option of the mortgagee, as specified in said notice, and to bid for and be the purchaser or purchasers at any such sale (no other purchaser or purchasers shall be answerable for the application of the purchase money), first giving notice of the time and place of sale by publishing the same at least once each week for three successive weeks in any newspaper published in said Town of Westerly, R. I., and having a circulation therein, with power to adjourn such sale from time to time, provided that the publishing of said notice shall be continued, together with a notice of the adjournment or adjournments, at least once each week in the same newspaper; and in their or in one's name or names, or as the attorney or at- torney s of the said Paul Frederick Dinwoode and Helen Elizabeth Mattson Dinwoode, (for that pur- pose by the said premises duly authorized and appointed with full power of substitution and revo- cation), to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers at such sale a good and sufficient deed or deeds of said premises in fee simple and to receive of the proceeds of such sale or sales, or from such proceeds to retain all sums hereby secured, whether then due or to fall due thereafter, or the part thereof then remaining unpaid, and also the interest then due on the same, together with all expenses incident to such sale or sales, or for making deeds hereunder, and for fees of counsel and attorneys, and all costs or expenses incurred in the exercise of said powers, and all taxes, assessments and premiums for insurance, if any, either thenforepaid by the said mortgagees, or its successors or assigns, or then remaining unpaid upon said granted premises rendering and paying the surplus of said proceeds of sale if any there be, over and above the amounts so to be retained as aforesaid, together with a true and particular account of such sale or sales, expenses and charges, to the said Paul Frederick Dinwoode and Helen Elizabeth Mattson Dinwoode, their heirs, executors, administrators or as- signs, which sale or sales made as aforesaid shall forever be a perpetual bar both in law and equity against the said Paul Frederick Dinwoode and Helen Elizabeth Mattson Dinwoode, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, and all persons claiming said premises, so sold, by, from or under them, or any of them. AND we, the said mortgagors, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagees, and its successors and assigns, that we and they will upon request execute such deed or deeds confirmatory of said sale or sales as may be required. AND FURTHERMORE, we, the said mortgagors, for ourselves and for our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagees, and its successors and as- signs, that insurance against loss by fire and extended coverage shall be kept and maintained on thebuildings on the premises aforesaid, in such office or offices as the said mortgagee, and its successors or assigns, shall approve, in a sum not less than Fifty-three hundred ($5300.) dollars, and that the policy or policies of such insurance shall be assigned and transferred, or made pay- able in case of loss, to the said mortgagees, or to its successors or assigns as collateral security hereto, and in default thereof, hereby agree that the said mortgagees, or its successors or assigns,
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407 may effect such insurance in the name of the said mortgagors, and their heirs, and assigns, payable in case of loss to the said mortgagees, and its successors or assigns, and that the premium or premiums paid therefor shall be a further charge upon said granted premises, se- cured by these Presents. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand one hundred and fifty-five. Executed in presence of } Harrist W. Prichard } Henry Harris } PAUL FREDERICK DINWOODIE (SEAL) HELEN ELIZABETH MATTSON DINWOODIE (SEAL) STATE OF CONNECTICUT } County of New London } In Pawcatuck on the 18th day of February, A. D. 1955 before me personally appeared PAUL FREDERICK DINWOODIE and HELEN ELIZABETH MATTSON DINWOODIE to me known and 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. HENRY HARRIS (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record February 19th, A. D. 1955 at 9:31 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [Signature] Town Clerk DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE THE WESTERLY SAVINGS FUND AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, of Westerly, Rhode Island, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage, recorded in the Land Evidence Records in the Town of Charlestown, R. I., in Real Estate Mortgage Book Number 34 Page 405-6 7 does hereby cancel and discharge the same IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, said Association has caused these presents to be signed and its Corporate Seal to be hereto affixed by A. Amelia Peckham its Treasurer duly authorised, this 19th day of October, A. D., 1962. WESTERLY SAVINGS FUND AND LOAN ASSOCIATION L.S. By [Signature] Its A. AMELIA PECKHAM Treasurer Signed and sealed in present of: James J. Morrison Received for record October 22nd A. D. 1962, at 9:00 o'clock, s.m., and recorded by [Signature] Deputy Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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