The instrument's own words
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all installments of interest in arrear whether before or after maturity, to bear interest
at the rate of [illegible] per cent paid till paid, For these reasons of the lasty grantors or
our heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or any other person, for us or for them
shall have said note of maturity together with its interest then due, according to the
tenor thereof this Deed shall be void by reason whereof she shall be and remain in
full force and effect. Furthermore, we the said grantors do hereby
convey and appoint the said grantee his executors administrators
and assigns, my Attorney irrevocable, with full power of substitution and
revocation for us and in our name or names or in their name or names, at any
time or times in case default shall be made in the payment of any part or all of
the annual interest due thereon and such default shall continue for the space
of ten days following the date of maturity the plenipotentiary aforesaid or any part
thereof, may give notice of such sell on some one of the publick newspapers printed
in this state and in our names or in their names manage, transact, execute, seal,
acknowledge and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, any deed or
deeds that may be necessary to vest in such purchaser or purchasers a full,
and absolute estate in fee simple forever, and on sole inheritancy (thereby granting
to our said Attorneys power to continue or acknowledge such sale from time to
time, do or not authorize the said Witnesses to release the amount the same may
be sold for, and after the payment of all the expenses necessary to such
sale or sales, to apply, and appropriate the residue first to the payment of
the amount of the principal sum and all interest and void state note by hand, (scoured)
hereby agreeing that in case of a partial sale the proportional part in the payment is
annual interest the principal part of our said note shall be deemed due and
payable on the day of such sale, accordingly to us or our heirs and assigns
for all sums over and about the amount thereof we hereby ratifying and
confirming such sale or sales as may be made or cause to be
made by our plenos hirey in solemnity whereof we have hereunto set
our hands and seals this 12th day of July in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. [Seal]
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
In presence of
George A. Cross
Joseph A. Chace
Elizabeth A. Chace
George A. Cross
Lorenz Leland
State of Rhode Island 90 Washington Co, for the town of [illegible] on this 12th day
of July 1788 the aforementioned fore a Chace personally appeared of praised before
me who after considering the foregoing instrument did sign his name to be his free
and voluntary act and deed and then the aforementioned Elizabeth Chace
also personally appeared before me and being by me examined and sworn stated
from her said husband acknowledged the aforementioned instrument shown to her
by her husband, to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and that she did act with
to retract the same
George A. Cross
Lorenz Leland
Received for nowd July 18th 1788 at 7 oclock P.M. executed by George A. Cross from the
This mortgage is hereby discharged May 19 1894 at ten oclock P.M.
In presence of Mary E. Banks
P. P. Blinn
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BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric
Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being
Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly
corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45'
West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the
center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a
distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15'
East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking
the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly,
bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven
(287) feet, more or less, to the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running northwesterly,
line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running northwesterly,
West 83° 15' East about the same distance, a distance of Three Hundred Seven
Seven and 4/10 (707.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the
center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; bounded easterly by the center line of the
road now and formerly of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark.
The Grantee, its successors and assigns, are hereby granted right-of-way, in
common with others, for all purposes, in a strip 30 feet in width, from the premises
hereby conveyed to the edge of the Highway as shown on plat hereinafter mentioned.
This conveyance is made subject to easement of The Narragansett Electric Company of
record in the Records of Land Evidence, said Town of Charlestown.
The herein described premises being more particularly described and shown on plat
entitled "Preliminary Survey of Land of Robert and Elizabeth Downey Plat #14, American Legion,
State of Rhode Island, Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, reference
Charlestown, R. I., C. A. Bounds, Engrs., Scale 1" = 80' - 30" Square, inserting
plat being filed in the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown reference
to said plat being hereby made and had for a more complete and detailed description
of the premises hereby conveyed.
I, Pauline Masson, wife of the grantor release to said grantee all my dower of right
and all other interest in said aforementioned premises.
WITNESSED our hands this 24 day of May 1956.
JOHN H. MASSON
PAULINE MASSON
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.)
County of Washington )
In South Kingstown on the 24th day of May, 1956, before me personally appeared John H.
Masson and Pauline Masson 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.
DAVID A. ARNOTT
Notary Public
Received for record July 20th, A. D. 1956 at 9:18 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
I, ROBERT DOWNEY and MARY ELIZABETH DOWNEY of Maryland for consideration paid, grant
to DOWNEY-WEAVER POST BUILDING ASSOCIATION, a non-business corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Rhode Island with QUIT-CLAIM COVENANTS
(Description, and Incumbrances, if any)
That certain tract or parcel of land, containing 38 acres, more or less, situate
and being in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island,
bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the center line of easement of The Narragansett Electric
Company (formerly of the South County Public Service Company); said point being
Seventy-five (75) feet easterly from a stone bound marking the southwesterly
corner of land of Charles R. and Mary Washington; thence running South 6° 45'
West, a distance of Eighty-two and 5/10 (82.5) feet to a corner located in the
center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running South 6° 45' West, a
distance of four Hundred (400) feet to a point; thence running South 83° 15'
East a distance of Three Hundred (300) feet, more or less, to a fence marking
the westerly side of an old road; thence running northerly bordering northwesterly,
bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path, a distance of Two Hundred Eighty-seven
(287) feet, more or less, to the center line of a 30-foot right-of-way; thence running northwesterly,
line of said easement of The Narragansett Electric Company; thence running northwesterly,
West 83° 15' East about the same distance, a distance of Three Hundred Seven
Seven and 4/10 (707.4) feet to the point of beginning. Bounded Northerly by the center line
of said easement; bounded easterly by said Pasquisset Path; westerly by land, now and formerly
of Ethel May Hunt and southerly by land of George P. Clark.