The instrument's own words
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122 Know all men by these presents, that I Nathaniel Hopkins
of Charlestown in the county of Washington Rhode Island are
in consideration of one shrubble to me paid by Charles Nordlow of said
Charlestown & for other valuable considerations, do hereby give, grant,
sell and convey unto said Nordlow my house & one half
acre of land situated in said Charlestown bounded Northerly
on land of Byones P. Byones, Conveyor, Costley by the same southerly
on a reef of stones of Cleland spread, Westerly on the highway,
The condition of this obligation is, that whereas the said Nordlow
has become indebted unto the said Hopkins for his appearance
before the Supreme Court for said County in the day and hour of
these premises bailor to answer the indictment this enlistment pending
against him, for messing stolen property &c
Now therefore it is said Hopkins and said Nordlow as sure
ty every there this deed shall be void, Else remain in full force
Witness my hand and seal this 19 the day of Feby 1874
Nat Hopkins L.S.
Washington Co
South Kingstown Feby 19 1874
These Nathaniel Hopkins acknowledged the within insu
rancement to be his free act and deed
Before me H. J. Braman
Just. Peace
Received for Record February 19 th 1874
at 8 oclock PM and Recorded by
Charles Cross Town Clerk
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said grantors' land to be granite marker set in the ground at the northeasterly
corner of said land this day conveyed to Richard G. Hutchins; thence in a general
westerly direction in a straight course bounded southerly by land this day
conveyed to Richard G. Hutchins a distance of approximately one hundred fifty-
seven feet and six inches to a stake, and to a drill hole in a stone located
at land of the grantees; thence in a general northerly direction in a straight
course bounded westerly by land of others to a concrete post set in a
corner, the ground, it being the point and place of beginning.
Said parcel is a portion of that some property which was conveyed to the grantors
hereof by Lena M. Tournas & et al by deed dated September 12, 1946, and recorded
in the Records of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown, R. I., in Book No. 30
at page 154, to which deed reference is hereby made and had.
It is made a condition of this conveyance that the grantees, their heirs and assigns,
shall assume the responsibility for the cost of erecting and maintaining any
and all line fences between the above described premises and the property of Ver-
non H. Hutchins and Emma R. Hutchins, so long as said grantors
shall own the abutting premises.
WITNESS our hands this 19th day of February, A. D. 1958.
VERNON H. HUTCHINS
EMMA R. HUTCHINS
(No doc. stamps required)
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON )
In Westerly on the 19th day of February A. D. 1958, before me personally appeared
Vernon H. Hutchins, and Emma R. Hutchins, husband and wife, to me known and known by me to
be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said
instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
EDWARD M. BOUVELLE
Notary Public
Received for Record February 20th, A. D. 1958 at 11 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
MORTGAGE DEED
Arthur J. Jackson and Norma G. Jackson, husband and wife, cotn of the Town of Charles-
town, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to Petta-
quamscut Credit Union, a legally created banking institution with principal place of
business in the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island with
MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payment of Two Thousand $2,000.00 ($2,000.00) Dollars in
five (5) years with interest at six (%) per centum, per annum, payable monthly as provided in
a certain negotiable promissory note of date herein described.
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
Those two (2) certain contiguous tracts or parcels of land with all the buildings
and improvements thereon situated locally partly in the Town of Charlestown and
partly in the Town of South Kingstown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island,
bounded and described as follows: Viz:
FIRST TRACT: A certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Town of Charlestown
and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of the Reston Post Road, so-called, at
the Charlestown-South Kingstown boundary line; thence running northerly one hundred
ninety six (196) feet, along said boundary line; thence running easterly seventy seven (
77) feet, to a bound; thence southerly one hundred sixty (160) feet, more or less,
to the point or place of beginning or however otherwise said premises may be bounded
and described.
SECOND TRACT: That certain tract or parcel of land situated in said Town of South
Kingstown, bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stake on the line of said Reston Post Road and said Charlestown-South-
Kingstown boundary line; thence running easterly about seventy (70) feet to land now or
formerly of I. J. Mansfield; thence northerly about one hundred thirty-five (135)
feet to land now or formerly of others; thence northerly about one hundred sixty
(160) feet along said boundary line to the point or place of beginning or however
otherwise said premises may be bounded and described.