The instrument's own words
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Whereas, Dwight R. Adams, of Warwick in the county of Kent
and State of Rhode Island, George Carmichael of North Kingstown in the
county of Washington and said state and William P. Sheffield in pr of
Newport in the county of Newport and said state were appointed
commissioners under Chapter 800 of the Public laws, passed at the General
Session 180 of 1790 of said state, entitled "An Act to abolish the tribal lasting
and tribal relations of The Narragansett tribe of Indians" and before
entering upon the performance of their duties under the provisions of
said act were engaged to the faithful discharge of their duties;
and whereas said commissioners after the Report and plat mentioned
in section 6 of said act had been received in the office of the town clerk,
of the town of Charlestown in said county of Washington, pursuant to
the order of the Governor, Council and Senate of said state, divided the lands assigned
to the said tribe as provided in said act into lots or parcels, in such manner
as they deemed will be likely to facilitate the advantageous sale
thereof, and gave notice that said lands would be sold at public auction
on Tuesday the eleventh day of July AD 1822, at ten
oclock in the forenoon at on the shore the Shaking House near in said
town of Charlestown by advertisement in the "Eastern Weekly" and
"the Narragansett Herald" two newspapers published in the county
of Washington, in "the Providence Daily Journal" and "the Bristol
Evening Post" two newspapers published in the city of Providence
and in the Newport Mercury, a newspaper publishable in the city
of Newport for more than thirty days prior to the time of said sale
And whereas, said commissioners at said time and place, and at
an adjournment of said sale to which commissioners gave
public verbal notice at the place where such sale had been last part
previously notified to be held, of the time and place to which said
sale was adjourned, for and in behalf of said state did make sale
of said lands by public auction, to the highest bidders therefore,
And whereas, at said adjournment of said sale on Tuesday the twelfth
day of July AD 1822, lot No 2 (of Town) at a certain plot entitled "Swan
Reservation, Part lot seven" surveyed and platted by H. Greene, which
said plat is to be received in the records of land evidence in said
town of Charlestown and which said lot containing eighty four
hundredths part acres, was sold to Benjamin F. Greene thence Rhode Island
for the sum of sixty three dollars he being the highest bidder
Therefore, for which said sum has since been received by said commission
Now know all men, that the State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations, of that consideration of the sum of sixty three
dollars received as aforesaid does by these presents give, grant bargain,
sell alien and convey to said Benjamin F. Greene his heirs and
assigns, said lot No 2 (of Town) hereinafter described.
To hold the same to him said Benjamin F. Greene his heirs and assigns
forever, In Testimony whereof I Samuel Leavitt, Revenue Officer
of said state, for and in behalf of said state by virtue of the authority
conferred upon him by said act and of all other authorities in that behalf
vesting him, has hereunto affixed the frame and seal of said state the
eleventh day of August AD eighteen hundred and eighty two.
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Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
Samuel P. Cloth
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
By Samuel R. Tarker
General Treasurer
L.S.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence County $\text{S}\text{s}$
I for Providence in said county on this
eleventh day of August AD 1802 personally appeared before me
Samuel R. Tarker Federal Treasurer of said state and acknowledged the
foregoing instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of
said state and his free and voluntary act acknowledged individually
and in his capacity as General Treasurer as aforesaid,
By M. R. Brown Jr.
Notary Public
Approved August 11th 1802 Saml P. Cloth Attorney General
Received for record May 31st 1804 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George C. Towne Town Clerk
KNOW all Men by these presents That we Caleb B.
Hopcie and Mary E. Hopcie wife of said Caleb B. Hopcie of Westbury
in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island for and in
consideration of the sum of one dollar to us paid by George F. Bardick
of Charlestown in said county state the receipt whereof we do hereby
acknowledge have received released and forever quitclaimed and by
these presents do remise release and forever quitclaim into the said
George F. Bardick his heirs and assigns forever all the right title
interest property claim and demand which we now have or of right
ought to have or claim or in and to a certain tract of land situated in
said Charlestown known as the "Drowns lot" and containing by estimation
thirteen acres more or less bounded North on the highway that leads
from the postroad to Lepanoughs bridge southerly and westerly on
land of said George F. Bardick and easterly on land of Edward S.
Cone otherwise the same may be bounded measuring and
intending to convey the same tract and parcel of land described as
the second tract of land in a deed of Caleb B. Hopcie to Mary E.
Hopcie and recorded in record book I evidence in said Charlestown
from page 82 reference thereto being here made,
To have and to hold the saids with all the rights privileges
and appurtenances thereunto appertaining to the said George F.
Bardick his heirs and assigns forever. And we the aforementioned
Caleb B. and Mary E. Hopcie for ourselves and for our heirs executors
and administrators do covenant with the said George F. Bardick
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AND FURTHERMORE, the mortgagors, for themselves and for their heirs, executors, ad-
ministrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the mortgagee, its successors and assigns,
that in the event of the purchase by the said mortgagee of any prior mortgage on the premises,
such sums as may be expended by said mortgagee its successors or assigns, in securing said
prior mortgage in excess of the amount secured by said prior mortgage shall be secured by
this mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, they have hereunto set their hands and seals this 11th day of
HDJ JR April in the year one thousand one hundred ninety five and fifty-five six.
JPJ
Signed and Sealed in
presence of
John W. Dunn.
HENRY G. JACKSON, JR. (SEAL)
JEANNE P. JACKSON (SEAL)
STATE of RHODE ISLAND, &c.)
County of Washington )
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In Town of Westerly on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1956 before me personally appeared
Henry G. Jackson, Jr. and Jeanne P. Jackson, husband and wife, both to me known and known by
me to the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument
by them executed, to be their free act and deed.
JOHN W. DUNN
Notary Public
Received for record April 18th, A. D. 1956 at 3:35 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk [Signature] Town Clerk
Received for record March 1st, A.D. 1962 at 3:55 o'clock
p.m., and recorded by [Signature]
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the Plantations Bank of Rhode Island does hereby release and
discharge a certain mortgage from Henry G. Jackson and Jeanne P. Jackson, husband and wife, to the Plantations
Bank of Rhode Island, dated 4/11/1956 and recorded in the Town of Westerly in the Land Evidence
records, county of Washington, State of Rhode Island, in Vol. 35, Page 28a of which to reference may be had.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Plantations Bank of Rhode Island has caused these Presents to be signed and its
Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed by its Vice President and its Assistant Secretary duly authorized, this
13th day of February, 1962.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in
presence of
Pauline Lauter
Pauline Lauter
STATE of RHODE ISLAND )
County of Providence )
Personally appeared Clarence F. Richards, Vice President, and Milton L. Henry, Assistant Secretary
of the Signers Declare as the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be their free act and
deed and the free act and deed of said corporation some re.
PLANTATIONS BANK OF RHODE ISLAND (Corporate Seal)
By Clarence E. Richards
Its Vice President
Milton L. Henry
Its Assistant Secretary
Providence, February 13, A. D. 1962
FRED DEL RUNO (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
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DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE
Industrial National Bank of Providence, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within
mortgage, recorded in the Land Evidence Records in the Town of Charlestown in Mortgage Book 35 at page 28z
does hereby cancel and discharge the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, said Company has caused these Presents to be signed and its Corporate Seal to be
hereunto affixed by its proper officers and duly authorized this 11th day of May A.D. 1961
INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK
of Providence
By: LEROY G. WHITFORD, Manager
HUDSON G. SCOTTGOOD, Asst. Mang.
Signed and sealed in presence of
CAROLINE L. McNULTY
(seal affixed)
Received for record May 11th A.D. 1961 at 2:15 o'clock P.M. and recorded by [Signature] Deputy Town Clerk
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