The instrument's own words
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Witnesseth that David Bumpmind Green and Eliza H Queen of Charlestown Rhode Island
on the eighteenth day of April AD 1874 executed to Josiah B. Peugson
of Charlestown Rhode Island a deed of Mortgage of certain real estate
herein after described for the purpose of securing the payment of a
negotiable promissory note for the sum of one hundred and forty two dollars
bearing date with the said deed of Mortgage and made by said Bumpmind
and Eliza H Queen payable to said Josiah B. Peugson or order on
one year from the date latter interest at the rate of ten per cent per
annum the interest to be paid semi annually preference having been to
said deed of mortgage which is recorded in the town of Charlestown and Book
No 7 page 411 and No 470 of the records of Mortgages of said County
and in which said deed mortgage were contained powers of sale in case of
default after ten years of said note and unless default was made
in the payment of said note and said default continued for more than
three days said clause provided Josiah B. Peugson a right to sell said mortgaged
premises for sale in the satisfaction foremost June one of the public notices for sale
hundred and published in said State of Rhode Island for some three
twenty days prior to the day of Sale and after the expiration of said time
of ten days said clause at the public auction held in presence of
said advertisement on the seventeenth day of June AD 1876 Eliza
nee of Brougham Rhode Island having the highest bidder for said and
mortgaged premises having the purchaser thereof for the sum of one hundred
and eighty dollars the said Josiah B. Peugson in
consideration of said sum of one hundred and eighty dollars to one part
by said Eliza Queen the receipt of which sum is hereby acknowledged
thereby by payment of the purchase offered upon one by said mortgage
B. Peugson sold and conveyed to said Eliza Queen her heirs and assigns
forever a certain tract of land situated in said town Charlestown bounded as
follows viz commencing at the Northeast corner at a stake stump
near the highway thence boundary to the North on course so called) thence
running easterly along the highway called road (so called, to the Court
end of a stone wall a piece and thence on land of George A
Stutton to land of Thomes T’s further thence Northwesterly on land of said
Debris and Anne Meagher and thence the corner to corner on land of
said David Bumpmind Northwesterly on land of said Court to a stone and land
about at home Wreely on land of Israel S Holmes some Ferry
short W Stanton Christopher A Champelou and corner back to the
first marking boundary or however otherwise bounded containing be
estimation eighty acres more or less either a dwelling house and other
buildings thereon standing having the same premises described in said
mortgage He have and to hold the aforementioned premises with
the privileges and appurtenances thereof to said Eliza Queen her
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heir and assigns forever. And I the said Josiah B. Hersey to Hersey, do hereby covenant
with said Elias Hersey his heirs and assigns that at the date of said date I was
the owner and holder of this said Mortgage and had good right to sell said premises
as aforesaid, and that in making said sale I have fully complied with the
requirements of said Mortgage in relation thereto.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty
first day of June eighteen hundred and twenty five
Signed sealed and delivered
George B. Hersey L.S.
in presence of
George S. James
State of Rhode Island sc
In Charlestown this twenty first day of June
1825 Josiah B. Hersey personally appeared before one and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act
and deed
Before me
George S. James
State Senator
Received for record June 1st 1825
at 1 half past 5 oclock P.M. and
recorded by Leah Cora Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I Dan S. Hossie of
Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island for
and in consideration of the sum of thirty four dollars to one paid by
Abbie E. Hossie of said Charlestown the receipt whereof I do hereby
acknowledge, have remised, released and forever quitclaimed, and by
these presents do remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said
Abbie E. Hossie for her heirs and assigns forever, all the right title,
interest property claim and demand which I now have or of right
ought to have or claim in and to a certain tract of wood land
situated in said Charlestown containing by estimation ten acres
be the same more or less, bounded Northerly, on land formerly owned
by Thomas and Sanford Noyes, Easterly, on land formerly owned by
Sarah Landers, Southerly on land formerly owned by Almon
Sherman and Westerly on land formerly owned by Edward Weyl, reference
being had to a deed from Paul Conrad to Joseph Weyl dated
August 6th 1824 and recorded in Book No 12 Land Evidence in
Charlestown page 80
To have and to hold the same with all the rights privileges and
appurtenances thereof or thereunto appertaining to the said Abbie E.
Hossie her heirs and assigns forever. And I the aforesaid Dan