5/26/1884 · DEED · book 11 page 237 doc 4881

237 To all people to whom these presents shall come Whereas Louke Hopkins & Mary H. Hopkins his wife of Charlestown, Washington County in the State of Rhode Island did quit by a certain mortgage deed bearing date July 8th AD 1876 & recorded in Book No 160 page 245 of Land Evidence records for said Charlestown, bargain sell & convey unto Charles W. Wilcox of South Kingstown in the County & State aforesaid all the premises hereinafter described to secure the payment of a certain promissory note in said deed particularly mentioned original time in said deed hereinafter declared And whereas default has been made in the payment of said bond & note & the said premises were by the said Louke W. Wilcox as the attorney of the said Louke Hopkins duly advertised for sale by public auction the advertisement being on the premises on the 17th day of May AD 1889 at 10 oclock in the forenoon, which said advertisement was also in the newspaper as provided in said deed. And whereas aforesaid premises were on the day & year at the place last mentioned advertised, in premises of said note sold by public auction, and at said sale Millard F. Terry of South Kingstown aforesaid was the highest bidder thereby bid & sold aforesaid premises for the sum of one dollar. Therefore know all men by these present that we the said Louke Hopkins and Mary H. Hopkins his wife on applying the said Millard F. Wilcox having acknowledged & compounded by the aforesaid mortgage deed unless and hereby sold & conveyed for and consideration of the aforesaid sum of one dollar to be paid by the aforesaid Millard F. Terry the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant bargain sell & convey unto said Terry his heirs & assigns forever all that certain tract of land situated & located in said town of Charlestown containing threeen & one half acres more or less and bounded & described as follows, viz: by Authority on land of Narrum Hilles, Easterly on land of heirs of Grant Watson, Southerly partly on land of Mary Atkin Sharpe & partly on lands of heirs of Louke Hopkins & Westerly on land of Hannah Hazard, with a dwelling house & her buildings thereon standing or hereafter constructed, with all the privileges & appurtenances to have had & to hold the same with all the privileges & appurtenances to the same belonging to said Terry his heirs & assigns forever. In testimony whereof the said Louke Hopkins & Mary H. Hopkins his wife their said attorney Charles W. Wilcox thereunto duly acknowledged & witnessed, have hereunto set their hands & seals this 29th day of May AD 1889 at South Kingstown aforesaid. Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of Edmond Lusher Louke Hopkins L.S. Mary H. Hopkins L.S. By their attorney Charles W. Wilcox State of Rhode Island se Washington County Se On this 29th day of May AD 1889 then personally came Charles W. Wilcox attorney of the said Louke Hopkins & Mary H. Hopkins as aforesaid and he acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him subscribed in his said capacity to be his free & deed act. Before me Edmond Lusher Justice of the Peace

238 I Charles W. Miles of South Kingstown Washington County Rhode Island on oath do depose & say that the Premises in the foregoing instrument described & conveyed mere by me in accordance with the terms of the mortgage deed referred to in said instrument advertised for sale at public auction on said premises on the 17th day of May AD 1884 at 10 oclock AM by publishing said notice of sale for four successive weeks in the Narragansett Times a public newspaper published & published in the Town of Wakefield in the County of Kent a friend of the issues thereof on April 17th April 24th May 1st May 8th May 15th all in the year of the 1884 a copy of which notice taken from said newspaper is hereto attached herewith.