The instrument's own words
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84 Know all men by these presents that I, S. Milliam
Exectr of Chritian Heskew late of the State of Rhode Island
do acknowledge of the sum of "Five Hundred Dollars" to me
paid by the Trustees Edward Smith & Wightman of Providence
and to the end and purpose of the said Savings Bank
their successors and assigns a certain tract of land situated i
said town bounded on the East by a stone wall & the
buildings and improvements thereof (said wall) and
bounded on the North by the Highway
leading to the house of John Goundy of East Greenwich Waterly
on the West by said Highway and is still Portion of the
said tract of land of the aforesaid Christian Heskew
said land being the Higging Farm in the town deco
Connected with the Residue and with this I do hereby
convey and to the said Savings Bank all that portion she
had & was measured and found such tract was reserved to
him and he has’t’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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amount of the same or part for a part thereof.
Now therefore I the said William E Rice or my
other assignees am and shall pay said note and all interest
of the sums at maturity according to the tenor thereof Then
this deed shall be void otherwise i shall remain indebted to
said Money the i said William E Rice do hereby appoint
hisy of Morgan Freeman guardian of Savings Bank to be
successor in said office after my turning uncountable with
full power of substitution and of revocation to sell at
Public Auction the said premises at any time after
said note or notes shall become due and unpaid and
remain unpaid for the space of ten days after
duey notice thereof for at least thirty days in
some Public Notice published in the town of
Westerly and when such sale shall in my name
or in my name's execute good and sufficient Deeds
or Deeds of said premises with the usual covenants of
warranty as is usual in the sale of the foreclosure or purchase
an estate under subject to the premises and may collect
and receive the purchase money and after paying
all the costs and expenses of such sale and after
other money due from me to said Savings Bank to pay
the residue to me or my heirs and assigns etc etc
by way as things which may be lawfully done by say said
Attorney for the purposes aforesaid
Furthermore i and we the said William E Rice do hereby
covenant with the said Savings Bank That the premises
against loss against fire shall be kept and maintained free
the buildings on the premises insured at least 2000 dollars
or Offices as they be appraised for them at a sum
not less than Two Hundred Dollars and the assies-
ments thereon duly paid and the Policy or Policies of
such Insurance shall be assigned and transferred
to the said Savings Bank as collateral security to
hence and in default thereof do hereby agree that
the said Savings Bank may effect such Insurance
and the premium or premiums thereon paid
shall be apportioned upon said Estate
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this 1st day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and 79
Signed Sealed & Delivered
Of presence of
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86 (The preceding part erased which ink I the clerk
Charleston witnessed before signing and executing)
Henry Whipple. William E Hiscox L.S.
Mary A Hiscox L.S.
State of Rhode Island &
Washington Co.
ss.
In the town of Charlestown this fourteenth
day of February A.D. 1815, William E Hiscox personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the within
written instrument to be his free and voluntary
act and deed. And then and there on the oath
gave also the above named
wife of said
unmarried wife of me and her husband by me examined firmly
and especially from her and her husband she acknowledged
the within deed which was by me shown and explained
to her to be her free and voluntary act and deed and
declared to me that she did not wish to retract the
same.
Henry Whipple,
Public Notary
Received per deed March 4th 1815 at 12 o'clock M
and recorded by Charles Cross
Town Clerk
Charlestown, R.I. Aug 13th 1877
The Niantic Savings Bank hereby acknowledges to
have received full satisfaction for the debt secured by the
within Mortgage and does therefore hereby release, cancel
and discharge the same. Witness the seal of the Treasurer
this 13th day of August AD 1877
Witness
D. H. Stallman - Niantic Savings Bank
by N. G. Morgan Treas.
Recorded Aug. 15th 1877
by Chas. Cross
Town Clerk