The instrument's own words
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Know all men by these presents that whereas Treasurer
Dans of the town of Charlestown in the County of Washington and
State of Rhode Island, and in the 18th day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven, made, executed
and delivered his certain deed of mortgage of that said surveying the
premises hereinafter described to Daniel R. Sanklin of the Town of
Richmond in his County and State aforesaid, to secure the payment
of a certain promissory note for the sum of half a hundred
dollars, made by said Treasurer Dans bearing date
April 25th 1887 and made payable to said Daniel R. Sanklin
or order on demand, as by reference to said deed of mortgage on
record in Book 7 page 211 and 212 of the records of the town
of Charlestown aforesaid for recording mortgages of Real estate
with said mortgage fully appears, and whereas said Treasurer Dans
did, in and by the said deed of mortgage conclude and
appoint said Daniel R. Sanklin, his executors, administrators
and assigns, to be his true and lawful attorney or attorneys
irrevocable with full power of substitution and revocation
for him, and in his name, or in their name or names as trustee
at any time in case default should be made in the payment
of said note or of the annual interest and mortgage, and
such default should continue for his term of ten days, to sell
at publick auction the premises aforesaid, or any part thereof
just prior and after the expiration of said term of ten days
twenty days notice of such sale, by advertisement in some
one of the publick newspapers printed in the state of Rhode Island
and in his name, or in their name or names, to make
contracts, seal, acknowledge and deliver to the purchaser or
purchasers thereof any deed or deeds, that might be
necessary, to vest in such purchaser a good and conveyance a full
and absolute estate in fee simple therein Said
Daniel R. Sanklin did on the 7th day of July
1887 grant assign, transfer and make over to Elizabeth
Sanklin of Charlestown aforesaid, and to her heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, The premises described in the
above mentioned mortgage deed, and all his right title and
interest therein and the debt named thereby Said
assigning being recorded in Book 7 page 213 said Town of
Charlestown aforesaid at page 213 and whereas said
Daniel R. Sanklin in and by said deed of assignment appointed
and affirmed in his hand, said Elizabeth Sanklin to be the
attorney of the mortgagor Treasurer Dans to do and perform
all the acts, matters and things in such round deemed appropriate
and do conduct or perform the same which it however confirmed, and from
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and my say’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’d’
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assigns, to his and their sole use, benefit and behof of forever.
In Testimony whereof I said Preserved Davis, by my attorney said
Joseph B. Cohunoh, administrator on the estate of said Elizabeth Cohunoh
as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of May
A.D. 1894
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
John M. Severey
Preserved Davis by
Joseph B. Cohunoh. L.S.
Administrator on the estate of
Elizabeth Cohunoh his wife
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington ss
On this day In Testimony in said county on this 4th
day of May A.D. 1894 personally appeared before me Joseph
Cohunoh Administrator on the estate of Elizabeth Cohunoh attorney
for Preserved Davis and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by him signed as attorney for said Davis to be the free act and
deed of his principal aforesaid and his free act and
deed in his capacity of administrator and his own free act
and deed as well.
John M. Severey
Notary Public
I Joseph Cohunoh, of the town of Charlestown, in the county of
Washington and State of Rhode Island, of lawful age, on oath
depose and say: that I am administrator on the estate of
Elizabeth Cohunoh deceased, that I am the person who executed
the foregoing deed: that I caused an advertisement of the sale of
the premises detailed in said deed to be published in the Rhode
Island County Journal, a newspaper published in the City
of Providence in the State of Rhode Island on the days and
times following to wit: on the 13th 20th and 27th days of April and
on the 4th day of May in the year 1894 being every one of said
newspapers prior to the day of sale: that said sale was made by
public auction on Friday May 4th 1894 at 10 oclock A.M.
in front of the Town Hall Building, in the village and town
of Westerly, Rhode Island, and was made in my presence
and under my direction by Benjamin Lath an auctioneer
of said Westerly, pursuant to the notice of sale aforesaid a copy
whereof is here to attached and is as follows,
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Joseph L. Colburn
State of Rhode Island ss
County of Washington Sc
In Westerly this 4th day of May AD 1894
subscribed and sworn to before me John H. Sweeney
Notary Public
Received for record May 15 1894 at 4-30 oclock PM
and recorded by George R. Cross Town Clerk
Know all men by these presents that I August A. Sothon
of the town of Richmond in the county of Washington and State
of Rhode Island for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar
and other valuable considerations to me paid by Joseph L. Colburn
of the town of Charlestown in said county the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge to do hereby give, grant, bargain sell,
and convey unto said Joseph L. Colburn his heirs and assigns
forever, the following described lots of land to wit: one certain
lot of land situated in the village of Ceres Mills in said town
of Charlestown and containing by estimation two and one half
acres more or less with a dwelling house and other buildings
thereon standing, and bounded as follows, Northerly by the
highway, Easterly by land of the heirs of Samuel Ward deceased
Southerly by said heirs land and Westerly by the small brook
One other lot of wood land contains by estimation ten acres
more or less bounded Southerly by land of the heirs of Asa
Colburn deceased, Westerly by land of the heirs of Samuel
Ward deceased Northerly by land of George A. Slaton and
Easterly by land of Samuel Perry Said lots of land
being the same premises described in a certain deed of
mortgage from Cornelius Davis to Daniel R. Larkin dated June
18th 1847 and recorded in Land Evidence book No 9 page 211
at the town clerks office in said town of Charlestown.
To have and to hold the same unto, land to the use of his said
Joseph L. Colburn his heirs and assigns forever.
And I Alice M. Sothon wife of said August A. Sothon in