The instrument's own words
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384 Attorneys to receive the amount the same may be sold for and
after the payment of all the expenses incident to such sale
or sales, to apply and a proportionate the residue thereof to the
payment of the amount of principal and interest of my
said note hereby secured, agreeing that in case of
sale for default in the payment of said annual interest the
principal of my said note shall be deemed one sum and
now payable on the day of such sale accounting to one 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 the virtue
hereof
In my testimony whereof I have hereunto set
our hands and seals this first day of January in the year of
our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of Alfred Wortie L.S.
Charles Cross Sarah M. Wortie L.S.
State of Rhode Island &c.
Washington Co. In Charlestown, on
this first day of January AD 1878 The above named
Alfred Wortie personally appeared before me and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed
to be his free and voluntary act and seal.
Charles Cross
Justice of the Peace
Received for record Jany 7th 1878 at 5 o'clock
PM and recorded by Geo C. Cross Dept. Town Clerk
On this 26th day of March 1883 I received the full
amount of the note & mortgage both princ pal and
interest and I hereby discharge the same in full
Witness my hand and seal at Charlestown the date
above written
In presence of George Burdick
Geo C. Cross