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equitors, administrators or assigns a certain promissory note given
by me the said William C. Langphier for the expressed sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars bearing date with the these presents and made
payable to the said Amos Dexter or order there years after date
with interest, the interest to be paid annually that this deed shall
be void, obligees to resume in full force effect
I Promise that I William C. Langphier do hereby
constitute and appoint the said Amos Dexter his executors, administrators
estators and assign my attorney, irrevocable, with full power of
be substitution and revocation for me and in my name or in
his or theirs name, at any time in case default shall be made in
the payment of said note or of the interest due thereon and
according to the terms thereof, and such default shall continue for
the term of thirty days, to sell at public auction the premises aforesaid
or any part thereof, first giving notice of the appropriation of said ten
days generally within each of both sides of town in some of the public mes-
papers published within this state, and in my name or in his or theirs
names, to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers of
thereof any deed or clear or deed that may be necessary to vest in such
purchaser or purchasers a good and valid title to the same hereby
granting to my attorney power to convey or adjourn such sale
from time to time) its attorney my attorney to receive the amount
the same may be sold for, and out of the full payment of all the expenses
incident to such sale or sales to apply and appropriate the residue
thereof to the payment of the amount of principal and interest of said
note hereby reserved, I hereby agreeing that in case of a sale for
default of the payment of the first installment or interest of said note, the
principal of such note shall be deemed due and payable on the
day of such sale, accounting to me or my heirs and assigns for all
sums over and above the amount thereof I hereby ratifying approving
and confirming such sale or sales as may be made or caused to
be made by parties hereof
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this third day of March AD 1873
In presence of
Charles Cross
A. C. Lyons
William C. Langphier S.S.
Caroline C. Langphier S.S.
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State of Rhode Island and Washington be
In Charlestown this third day of March 1873 - William C. Langphier
personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument
by him here signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed
Charles Cross
Received for Record March 1st 1873 at 10 o'clock A.M. Justice of the Peace
Recorded by Ezra Leeds Clerk
On this 10th day of February 1876 I received of W. C. Lan-
phier the full amount of the above most note both principal
and interest and do hereby discharge the same
Witness my hand and seal Amos Sexton
In presence of
Charles Cross
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