The instrument's own words
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To all People to whom these Presents shall Come.
I Nobel Green of Charlestown in the County of Washington and the state of
Rhode Island.
Send Greeting. Know Ye, That I the said Nobel Green
for and in consideration of the sums of
One hundred and fifty dollars
in hand before the executing hereof well and truly paid by
John Green of Westerly in the county and state aforesaid, grandson of the
said Nobel Green of Charlestown to be returned to Edward Green more distant kinsman of the said Nobel Green deceased
the right of the said Nobel Green to be hereby acknowledged and confirmed fully settled and paid for: and therefore of and every part of parcel and
premise do therefore execute and assign deliver give and grant the said Nobel Green has
laws, executors and administrators hereby forever granted bargained sold aliened conveyed and confirmed; and
by these presents do freely and fully absolutely and stability give grant bargain sell aliened convey and confirm unto him
heirs and assign forever
John G Green
the undersigned half of a certain farm or tract of land situated in the town
of Charlestown and contains by estimation sixty acres more or less with a
dwelling house, barn and other buildings thereon standing and bounded
and described as follows, bounded Northerly and Easterly by Samuelick Pears
Southerly by land of Jonathan Hopsonall, and Westerly by the highway.
To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities to
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to myself and my heirs and assigns forever
John G Green this only proper use benefit and behalf forever. And
heirs and assigns forever
to execute and grant and to grant and to sell with the said
heirs and assigns
the true soil and land and every acre of the above bargained
premises and
heirs and assigns that at and by agreements that at and by the enculing hereof
lawfully seized and possessed of the same in
own proper right in a perfect and absolute estate of inheritance
in the simple and I
and my heirs forever full power and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and confirm the said bargained
premises as aforesaid. And that the said
heirs and assigns shall and may from this time and to all time forever have and hold premises hereof and virtue of these presents lawfully and peaceably and
quietly have hold occupy use enjoy and employ the said deed and bargained and premises with the appurtenances free and clear and freely and
securely without any manner of let suit trouble interruption or disturbance of all and any manner of persons whatsoever. And the said bargain
entails foreverly diverse judgments executions and encumbrances of what suit or inner security what in any manner or figure absolute
witness whose present
the said present deed
Furthermore I the said Nobel Green
my heirs executors and administrators do covenant and engage the above demişed
premises to be forever free and clear of all titles of the said Nobel Green
heirs and assigns
against the claims that or demands of any person or persons whatever forever to warrant secure against any defend by these presents.
The conditions of this deed is such that whereas I the said Nobel Green
have equitated my negotiable promissory note for the sum of one hundred
and fifty dollars bearing certain date herewith and made payable to the said
John G Green or order on demand with interest annually, Now therefore
if I the said Nobel Green or my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns
or any other person for me for one or full shall buy said note at maturity
together with the interest thereon according to the tenor thereof, then this
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des or shall be void, otherwise shall be and remain in full force and
effect. Furthermore I the said Nelson Greene do hereby constitute and
appoint the said Job L Lawson his executors, administrators and assigns
my true and lawful attorney or attorney irrevocable with full power of
substitution and revocation for me and in my name or the name or
names of any time in case default shall be made in the payment of said
note or of the annual interest due thereon and such default shall continue
for the term of ten days after full publication according the premises aforesaid or
any part thereof their first giving after the expiration of said term of ten days
thereby day, notice of such sale one time of the public news paper
provided in said city of Providence agent in my name or in their name or names
to make, execute, sell, acknowledge and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof any deed or deeds that may be necessary to pass to such purchaser or
purchasers a full and absolute title to said premises and on sole purchase
thereof hereby granting unto my said attorney alone full power to conclude or
adjourn said sale from time to time & to authorize my said attorney to
receive the amount that same may be sold for and after the payment of all
the expenses incurred to such sale or sales as may be just and appropriate the residue
thereof to the payment of the amount of principal and interest of said note
hereby secured I further agreeing that in case of a sale for default in the
payment of said amount interest the principal of said note shall be
deemed alone paid and satisfied on the day of such sale accounting to me or my
heirs or assigns for all sums over and above the amount thereof I hereby
ratifying confirming and confirming such sale or sales as may be made void
or caused to be made by write hereof.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
j. H. Wood.
State of Rhode Island & p.
County of Washington sc.
day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty seven (1827)
Nelson Greene L.S.
On Richmond this twenty
day of April AD 1827 Nelson Greene then personally appeared before
me and acknowledged the within instrument the hand signed to be his
free and voluntary act and deed. Bradford Kenyon Justice Peace
District for said town since 3rd 1824 at 1 o clock PM and Recorded
by the Clerk Cross Town Clerk.
Revenue
Stamp
$0.25
Recorded
at
of May 1878
Wt. H. P. Clerk
Having received payment in full both principal and
interest of this debt recorded by the southern mortgage lease by
scrua and discharge the above described premises
of May 1878
J. B. Garesse
J. B. Garesse
Guardian as within named
seal my hand and seal that 28 day
Recorded by the Clerk
John Belknap