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96 PARTIAL RELEASE OF MORTGAGE
KNOW ALL MEN, that THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Rhode Island corporation, located
and having its principal office and place of business in the Town of Westerly, County of
Washington and State of Rhode Island, the holder of a mortgage by James A. Macdonald and
Margaret V. Macdonald, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington
and State of Rhode Island to said The Washington Trust Company, dated July 20, 1955 and re-
corded in the Land Evidence Records in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State
of Rhode Island, in Book No. 35, at Pages 60-61, for consideration paid, release to said James
A. Macdonald and Margaret V. Macdonald all interest acquired under said mortgage in the follow-
ing described portion of the mortgaged premises:
A certain tract or parcel of land located on the westerly side or southwesternly side
side the State Highway connecting from Carolina to Cross's Mills, which
highway is presently designated as Route 112, in the Town of Charlestown, County of
Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
to wit:
Commencing at the northeasterly corner of said tract at an iron pipe set in the ground
at the southeasterly corner of said land or now formerly of Joseph N.
and Dorothy B. Sayre, at the southeasterly edge of right of way of privately owned by
the State of Rhode Island, the State Highway, Division of Roads and
Bridges in lying on the aforesaid highway, and running in a general south
westerly direction, more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground at the southwesterly corner of
said land or a distance of 376 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe set in the
ground at a stone wall, and then running thence in a general northeasterly or northwesternly direction in a straight course, bounded southeasterly by said Utils property a
distance of 250 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground at a
distance of 300 feet, more or less, and then running generally northerly or northeasterly direction in a
straight course, bounded southeasterly or southeasterly by said grantor land a
distance of 385 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground at the
aforesaid line of taking by the State of Rhode Island in laying out the State Highway, and then
running in a general northeasterly direction, bounded northeasterly
easterly by said State Highway property a distance of 200 feet, more or less,
to the point of beginning.
Said land and parcel is carved out of that certain tract of land that was conveyed to the
grantors hereby by deed of Peter Riccio, executor under the will of Joseph Pepe,
late of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, said deed is recorded in the Land
Evidence Records of the Town of Charlestown in Book 32 at Page 52.
But this release shall not in any way affect or impair the right of said The Wash-
ington Trust Company to hold under the said mortgage and as security for the sum remaining
due thereon, or to sell, under the power of sale in said mortgage contained, all the remainder
of the premises therein conveyed and not hereby released.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said The Washington Trust Company has this 27th day of August,
A. D. 1957, caused this instrument to be executed by its Treasurer in these premises duly
authorised, and its corporate seal hereunto affixed.
In Presence of: THE WASHINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Robert D. Perry (Corporate Seal)
By David Robertson
Its Treasurer
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
In Westerly, on the 27 day of August, A. D. 1957, before me personally appeared the above
named David Robertson, the Treasurer of said The Washington Trust Company, to me known to be the
party who executed the foregoing instrument for and on behalf of said The Washington Trust
Company, and he acknowledged said instrument by his executed, in his said capacity for and on
behalf of said The Washington Trust Company, to be the free act and deed of said The Washington
Trust Company, and his own free act and deed as well.
ADELAIDE R. SMITH (Notarial Seal)
Notary Public
My Commission expires June 30, 1961.
Received for record August 29th, A. D. 1957 at 10:40 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk