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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
KNOW YE, That I, CYNTHIA H. STORY, of the Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut, for the consideration of One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars received to my full satisfaction of JOHN WILLIAMS and WINFIELD HAWKES, both of the Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut, do give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the said John Williams and Winfield Hawkes a certain tract or parcel of land together with all buildings and improvements thereon situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, and being laid out and designated as Lot No. 5 on that map or plan entitled "Plot of Cottage Sites on H. N. Burdick property Quonochontaug East Beach Lot 5" on that map to an inch G. W. Woodward Surveyor May 1914" which map or plan is on record in the Records of the Land Evidence for said Town of Charlestown in Deed Book 18 Pages 46 and 47, reference thereto being made for a more complete description.
Being the same premises described in a Warranty Deed dated October 7, 1949 and recorded in the Charlestown Land Records in Book 31, page 643.
I, Clifford Story, Husband of the mortgagor, release to the mortgagees all my appurtenances thereof and all other interest I may have in the aforesaid premises.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained premises, with the appurtenances thereof, unto and unto the said grantees their heirs and assigns, forever, to them and their own proper use and behoof. and also I the said grantor do for myself, on my heirs, executors, administrators, covenant with the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, that until and at the unsealing of these presents, I am well seized of the premises, as a good indefeasible estate in FEE SIMPLE; and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and that the same is free from all incumbrances whatsoever, except as hereinbefore mentioned.
AND FURTHERMORE, I the said grantor do by these presents bind myself and my heirs forever to WARRANT and DEFEND the above granted and bargained premises to then the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever, except as hereinbefore mentioned.
THE CONDITION OF THIS DEED IS SUCH, that whereas the said grantor is justly indebted to the said grantees in the sum of One Thousand ($1000.00) of Dollars even date herewith, payable to said grantees or order with interest at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, and payable according to the terms contained in said promissory note.
NOW THEREFORE, if said note shall be well and truly paid according to its tenor, then this deed shall be void, otherwise to remain in full Force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set hand and seal this 11th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of
CYNTHIA H. STORY L.S.
Cynthia H. Story
CLIFFORD STORY L.S.
Clifford Story
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } SS. Norwich, July 11th 1958
County of New London }
Personally appeared Cynthia H. Story, and Clifford Story, Signers and Sealers of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed before me,
CYRIL DEMBROW (Notarial Seal)
Cyril Dembrow
Received for record July 15th, A. D. 1958 at 10 o'clock a.m., s. a. m., and recorded by
[Signature] Town Clerk
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That We, JOHN WILLIAMS and WINFIELD HAWKES, both of the Town of Norwich, County of New London and State of Connecticut do hereby release and discharge a certain mortgage given by CYNTHIA H. STORY, both of said Town of Norwich to said John Williams and Winfield Hawkes dated July 11, 1958 and recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Charlestown, County of State of Rhode Island in Vol. 36, at Page 331 to which reference is here made. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 11th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
JOHN WILLIAMS L.S.
John Williams
WINFIELD HAWKES L.S.
Winfield Hawkes
Dorothy Sheffield
Paul R. Washington
Paul R. Washington