The instrument's own words
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88. These presents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 22 day of March A.D. 1894.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Joseph G. Cross B.D. Macomber Lsd
State of Rhode Island ve
Washington Ss
Bristol R. Charleston this 22 day of
March 1895 Billings D. Macomber personally
appeared before me and acknowledged the within
instrument to be his free and voluntary
act and deed. George G. Cross
Notary Public
Received for record March 23 1895 at 10 o'clock A.M.
and inscribed by George G. Cross Town Clerk
To All People to whom these presents shall come,
We George A. Percene and Mary J. Percene wife of said
George A. of Charlestown 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 three hundred dollars to us in hand
paid for the enclosing herself and will and burial paid by Walter
S. Whitfield of North Kingstown hereinafter called the
grantee the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge
and are therefore fully satisfied, contented and paid;
and of ourselves, and of our heirs and parcel thereof do
equate, request and discharge the said grantee his heirs,
reverts and administrators forever by these presents,
have given, granted bargained sold, leased assigned,
conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do fully,
fully and absolutely give, grant bargain sell, alien,
let lease of, convey and confirm unto the said grantee his
heirs and assigns forever, a certain lot of land situated
in said Charlestown containing two acres more or less
and bounded Northerly by the highway, Easterly by the
Conry Pond (so called) Southerly and Westerly by land of
Barnes A. Kenyon or however otherwise bounded with a
receiving home and other buildings thereon standing.
To have and to hold, the said granted and bargained
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premises, with all the appurtenances, privileges and commodities
to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining to the said
grantee his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only
proper use, benefit and behoof forever, And we the said grantors
for ourselves our heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant
promise and grant to and with said grantee his heirs and assigns
that of old and before the ensuing here we are the true, sole and
lawful owners of the above bargained premises, and are lawfully
seised and possessed of the same in our own proper right as
good, perfect and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple
and have in ourselves 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 his heirs and assigns, shall and
may from time to time, and at all times forever hereafter
by force and virtue of these presents, lawfully, peaceably,
and quietly have, hold, use, occupy, possess and enjoy of the
said remised and assigned premises, with the appurten
ances free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted,
warranted and discharged of and from all and all
manner of former or other gifts, grants, bargains, sales,
leases, mortgages, wills, entails, quit rents, covenants, judgments, payments,
executions and assurances, of what name or nature
soever, that might in any measure or degree obtrude or
make void this present deed.
Furthermore
we the said grantors for ourselves, our heirs, executors
and administrators, do covenant and engage the above
devised promises to the said grantee his heirs and
assigns against the lawful claims or demands of any
person or persons whatsoever, forever to warrant seise
and defend, by these presents.
The condition of this deed is and that, whereas we the
said George R. Greene and Mary T. Greene have executed
our negotiable promissory note for the sum of three hundred
dollars bearing seal hereto annexed and made payable to
the order of Walter & Whitford three years after date with
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable
annually till said principal sum is paid, whether at or
after maturity, and all installments of interest in arrears
whether before or after maturity to bear interest at the rate
aforesaid till paid. Now 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
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recording to the tenor thereof, then this deed will be void, otherwise
shall be and remain in full force and effect
Furthermore, we the said grantors do hereby constitute and
appoint the said grantees its executors, administrators and
assigns our attorneys irrevocable, with full powers of
substitution and revocation for us and in our name or in his
their name or names, at any time in case default shall
be made in the payment of said note or of the annual
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, they first giving, after the
expiration of said term of ten days, three weekly notices
of such sale, in one or more of the newspapers printed
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 thereof any deed or deeds that
may be necessary to vest in such purchaser or purchasers a
full and absolute estate in fee simple thereon and on
the sale thereof receiving the proceeds into our said attorneys
power to continue or adjourn such sale from time to time,
we do authorize our said attorneys to receive the amount
the same may be sold for, and after the payment of all
the expenses incident to such sale or sales to apply and
appropriate the residue thereof to the payment of the
amount of principal and interest of said note hereby
secured, we hereby agreeing that in case of a sale for
default in the payment of said annual interest, the
principal of said note shall be deemed 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 approving and conforming such
sale or sales as may be made or caused to be made by
virtue hereof. In testimony whereof we have
hereunto set our hands and seals this 13th day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
George Colandos Geo St. Greene L.S.
Mary St. Greene L.S.
State of Rhode Island &p
County of Washington L.e
In the town of Charlestown this 13th day
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of October 10, 1890. George N. Greene personally appeared before
me, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument, by him signed,
to be his free and voluntary act and deed; and then and there
the above named Mary F. Greene also personally appeared before
me and was by me duly examined privately and apart from her said
husband, and while so privately and apart I showed and explained
to her the foregoing instrument by her signed and she acknowledged
the same to be her free and voluntary act and deed and declared
to me that she did not wish to retract the same.
George G. Lowes
Notary Public
Received for record April 2nd 1895 at 7.40 oclock P.M.
and recorded by George G. Lowes Town Clerk
(For assignment of above Mortgage, see Buch 27, Page 117)
Where as the Quaker's Hill Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Shamrock (a corporation duly created by the laws
of the State of Rhode Island) holds by lease from George N.
Austin for the term of twenty five years from the date of
said lease, a certain tract of land situated in Johnston R.I.
containing 2000 square feet bounded as follows, Beginning at
the North west corner of said tract at the highway and at the
Southwest corner of the Town House lot called Three Eastly
bounding Northerly by said Town House lot eighty feet, thence Easterly
Southerly thirty feet and thence Westerly eighty feet to said
highway bounding Easterly and southerly by land of said
George N. Austin, thence Northerly bounding Westerly by said
highway thirty feet to the place of beginning. And whereas
I and my said lease the said Quaker's Hill W.C.T.U. are
authorized to sublet and premises as they see fit.
Now Therefore, Know all men by these presents that the Quaker
Hill Woman's Christian Temperance Union by Harriet E.
King who was at a meeting of said Quaker's Hill W.C.T.U.
held on the 2nd day of January 1895 duly authorized to
sign a lease subletting a portion of said premises, for
and in consideration of the sum of one dollar paid by
the Cranston Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
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