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to such sale to apply & appropriate the residue thereof to the
payment of the amount of principal & interest of said note
hereby secured, accouming to us our Heirs and assigns for
all sums owed & above The amount thereof we hereby
ratifying, approving & confirming such sale or sales as
may be made by joint sale hereof
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto
set our hands & seals This 18th day of October Ad 1784
Signed sealed & delivered
In presence of
Charlotte Cross Geo. N. Greene L.S.
George Lowes Mary N. Greene L.S.
State of Rhode Island Glazed De
In Charlestown this 18th day
of October Ad 1784 George N. Greene personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing
Instrument by him signed, to be his free and voluntary
act and deed and that There the aforementioned Mary
N. Greene also personally appeared before me & being
by me examined separately & apart from her said
husband she acknowledged the same instrument
shown & explained to her by me to be her free and
voluntary act & deed & that she did not wish to retract
the same. Charles Lowes
Justice
Received for record Oct 17th 1784 at 1/2 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by Chas Lowes Town Clerk
Know all men that I Benjamin B. Gacon the mortgagor named in the
following mortgage for and in consideration of two hundred & seventy seven dollars
having the amount of 12 interest not owed on the debt secured by said mortgage all
fully paid by me Common G. Manning owner of ships in Providence RI Charlestown RI and Mary Washington
executor of the will of Elizabeth the late wife of George Gacon I do hereby acknowledge do hereby grant release forever and
set over to said Common G. Manning for his and executors forever the premises conveyed in said mortgage
deed together with all my right title and interest therein to the debt and note secured by said deed
Do and do hand to said Common G. Manning for his and his heirs forever in as ample manner as I said Benjamin B. Gacon will be
joined by virtue of said Mortgage deed In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
This 20th day of January 1800 Benjamin B. Gacon L.S.
before me Charles Lowes
State of Rhode Island Wrington - Charlestown Jan 23rd 1800 - Then Benjamin
Gacon personally appeared before me and acknowledged the above release of mortgage by him signed
to be his free act and deed Charles Lowes Town Clerk
Received from B. G. 2.5 1800 By Chas Lowes Town Clerk
For the transfer of this mortgage to Nathan N. Foster see book 2nd page 145.