The instrument's own words
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Charlestown, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
do hereby in my capacity of Guardian, bargain, sell
and convey unto the said Joseph M. Hopkins and Asa
J. Hopkins their heirs and assigns forever, all the
right title and interest which the said Hannah D. Oliver
and Mary M. Olark has in and to the real estate
above described, To have and to hold the same
with all the rights and privileges to the same belonging
to the said Joseph M. Hopkins and Asa J. Hopkins for
their heirs and assigns forever,
In witness whereof I have hereunto in my said
capacity of Guardian, set my hand and seal
this 18th day of April 1891
Per order of
Geo. L. Loomis
Anna B. Olark Sd
Guardian
State of Rhode Island ss
Washington dc
In Charlestown this 18th
day of April 1891 Anna B. Olark personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the
foregoing instrument by her signed to be her free
act and deed, in her capacity of Guardian as
aforesaid.
George L. Loomis
Notary Public
Received for record May 1st 1891 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George Loomis Tom Olark
To all People to whom these Presents shall come,
We Joseph M. Hopkins and Asa J. Hopkins both of
Charlestown County of Washington in the state of
Rhode Island hereinafter called the grantors,
Send Greeting, Know Ye, that we the said grantors
for and in consideration of the sum of seventeen
Hundred ($1700) dollars to be in hand before the executing
hereof, well and truly paid by Anna B. Olark of said
Charlestown hereinafter called the grantee the
receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and
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are herewith fully satisfied contented and paid; and they
and of every part and parcel thereof do remise, acquit
and discharge the said grantee her heirs executors and
administrators forever by these presents have given granted
bargained sold aliened suffered conveyed and confirmed
will by these presents do fully fully and absolutely give
grant bargain sell alien suffer convey and confirm
unto the said grantee her heirs and assigns forever
a certain farm situated in said Charlestown containing
one hundred and twenty acres more or less with all the
buildings and improvements thereon bounded as
follows in the North by land of Samuel B. Hoxie's
and heirs of Jared Babcock East by land of heirs
of John Stanton and land of Samuel Browning on
the South by Charlestown Road and on the West by
land of Samuel B. Hoxie's or however otherwise the
same may be bounded To have and
to hold the said granted and bargained premises
with all the appurtenances privileges and commodities
to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining
to the said grantee her heirs their aforesaid assigns forever
to her and their only proper use benefit and behalf
forever And we the said grantors our successors or
their executors and administrators do covenant promise
and grant to and with said grantee her heirs and
assigns that at and before the sealing hereof
we are the true sole and lawful owners of the above
bargained premises and are lawfully seized and
possessed of the same in our own proper right as
good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance in
fee simple; and have in us good right full power
and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey
and confirm the said bargained premises in manner
as aforesaid And that the said grantee her
heirs and assigns shall and may from time to
time and at all times forever hereafter by force
and virtue of these presents lawfully predictably and
quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy
the said demised and bargained premises with the
appurtenances free and clear and fully and clearly
acquitted exonerated and discharged of and from
all and all manner of former or other gifts grants
bargains sales leases mortgages wills entails
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jointures, doweries, judgments, executions and encumbrances
of what name or nature soever, that might in any manner
or degree obstruct or make void this present deed.
Furthermore, we the said grantors for ourselves our
heirs executors and administrators do covenant and
engage the above described premises to the said grantee
her heirs and assigns against the lawful claims or
demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever to
warrant and defend by these presents.
And we Devons A. Hosie wife of Joseph M. Hosie
and Mary L. Hosie wife of Asa L. Hosie in
consideration of the sum aforesaid do hereby
release and forever quitclaim unto the said grantee
her heirs and assigns all our right of dower in
and to the aforementioned premises,
The condition of this deed is such That whereas we
the said Joseph M. Hosie and Asa L. Hosie have
executed our negotiable promissory note for the sum of
seventeen hundred dollars bearing even date herewith
and made payable to the order of Anna B. Clark two
years after date with interest at the rate of six per
centum per annum payable semiannually till said
principal sum is paid whether at or after maturity and
all installments of interest in arrear whether before or
after maturity to bear interest at the rate aforesaid till paid
Our therefore, if we the said grantors or our heirs
executors, administrators or assigns, or any other person
for us or for them shall pay said note at maturity
together with the interest thereon according to the term
thereof, then this deed shall be void otherwise shall be
and remain in full force and effect.
Furthermore we the said grantors do hereby constitute
and appoint the said grantee her executors administrators
and assigns our attorney irrevocable with full powers
of substitution and revocation for us and in our name or
in his or her name or names at any time, in case
default shall be made in the payment of our said note
or of the semiannual interest due thereon, and such
default shall continue for the term of ten days to
sell at public auction the premises aforesaid, or any
part thereof first giving after the expiration of
said term of ten days twenty days notice of such
sale in one of the public newspapers printed
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in Washington County and in our name or in their name
or names, to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver
to the purchaser or purchasers a full and absolute estate
for himself therein and on sale thereof hereby
granting unto our said Attorney powers entitled or
[illegible] such sale from time to time we do authorize
our said Attorney to receive the amount the sum
he may be sold for, and after the payment of all the
expenses incident to such sale in sales, to apply,
and appropriate the residue thereof to the payment
of the amount of principal and interest of said note
hereby secured Gave hereby agreeing that in case of
a total failure in the payment of said semiannual
interest The principal of said note shall be declared
due and payable on the day of such sale according to
us or our heirs and assigns, for all sums over and
above the amount thereof we hereby ratifying, affirming
and confirming such sale or sales as may be made
or could be made by our attorney hereof
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this first day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety
two.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Charles Cross
Mary Clones
Joseph M. Hospie L.S.
Henry A. Hospie L.S.
Ada T. Hospie L.S.
Mary J. Hospie L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington De.
In the town of Charlestown this
first day of May A.D. 1891 Joseph M. Hospie and
Ada T. Hospie did personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the following instrument by them
signed to be their free and voluntary act but deed
Charles Cross
Justice of the Peace
Received for record May 1st 1891 at 4 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George Co. Dove Town Clerk
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