The instrument's own words
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68 State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
In Providence on the 28th day of Sept 90
1898 resided me personally appeared George E. S. Williams and maria
T. Perkins to me known, and known by me to be the parties
executing the foregoing instrument and acknowledged said
instrument to be their free act and deed,
Albert D. Dixon
Notary Public
Received for record Dec 17th 1897 at 11.30 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by George E. Cross Town Clerk
Providence R.I.
I hereby acknowledge receipt of payment in full of
within mentioned claim
George S. Williams
Received Dec 19 1903 by George E. Cross Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that Edwin
A. Kenyon of Charlestown, County of Washington and State
of Rhode Island hereinafter called the mortgagor in
consideration of five hundred dollars to me paid by Phil
S. Kenyon hereinafter called the mortgagee, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby grant, convey, warrant
bargain, sell and convey unto the said mortgagee and
his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract of land
situated in said Charlestown and containing by chaining
sixty acres more or less, bounded as follows, beginning at
the highway at the southeast corner of land of [illegible] Benson
running Northly, thence Northerly on land of said Benson,
running Westly, thence Northerly on the highway, thence Southeasterly on land
of John F. Kelly 200 feet, thence Southerly on land of John Drucker,
thence Easterly and Southerly on land of Paul Beck, then
Southen and Hartfield Railroad, thence Northeasterly on land of
John W. Vance to the highway, thence Northerly to point of
beginning, or however otherwise bounded, being property
conveyed to mortgagor by the paynee A. James of Providence
Conn (with everything hereinafter noted) and recorded in
Book 12 12 pages 444 to 447 Record of Charlestown
Executors, A lot of parcel of land deeded to New
York New Haven Railroad, containing about
three and one half acres. Also a strip of land
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fifty feet wide, reserved for street leading from highway to new
station of A. Y. R. R. & R. R. To have and to hold
the aforesaid premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances
thereunto belonging unto and to the use of the said mortgagor and
his heirs and assigns forever, and the said mortgagor and
hereby, for myself with for my heirs, executors and administrators
covenant with the said mortgagee and his heirs and assigns
that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the said granted premises
that the same is free from all encumbrances that I have good
right full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the
same in manner as aforesaid that the said mortgagee and his
heirs and assigns shall in these premises at all times here-after
peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises and
that I the said mortgagor will, and my heirs, executors and
administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the
said mortgagee and his heirs and assigns forever, against all other
lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Called for the consideration aforesaid I Emma D. Lengyel wife
of the mortgagor do hereby release all my right of dower in
and to the said granted premises unto the said mortgagor
and his heirs and assigns forever. Provided
Nevertheless, and this conveyance is made upon the express
condition, that if the said mortgagor or his heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns, shall pay unto the said mortgagee or
his executors, administrators or assigns the sum of five hundred
dollars whereas the said mortgagor has made a mortgage to
premises my note for said aggregate sum, bearing even date
with these presents and made payable to the order of Olive J.
Lengyel or assigns from the date hereof, with interest thereon
at the rate of 5 per centum, per annum, payable semiannually
until said principal sum be paid, whether it be after maturity
and all installments of interest in arrears whether before or
after maturity to bear interest at the rate aforesaid until paid
and shall also pay all taxes and assessments of every kind
levied or assessed upon or in respect of said premises then
this deed, as also said promissory note, shall become and be
absolutely void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
But if default shall be made in the payment of the said
note or of said interest at the time or times and in the manner
aforesaid, or of the taxes or assessments aforesaid as the same
become payable, or of any either of these things, or of any fact thereby
or if breach shall be made of the covenant for maintenance
hereinafter contained, then it shall be lawful for the
said mortgagee his executors, administrators or assigns, to
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sell, together or in parcels, all and singular the premises
hereby granted, granted, or intended to be granted, or any part or
parts thereof, and the benefit and equity of redemption of
the said mortgagee and his heirs, executors, administrators and
assigns thereof, at publick auction upon the premises, and to
sell for and become the purchaser or purchasers as principals at any such
sale, (and no other purchaser or purchasers shall be admitted
for the application of the purchase money,) first giving notice
of the time and place of sale by publishing the same at
least once each week for three successive weeks in a
newspaper then published in Washington co. with notice to
approximate such time as time is provided that the
publishing of said notices shall be continued, together with a
notice of the adjournment or adjournments, at least once each
week in the same newspaper, and in his own name
or manner, or as the attorney or attorneys of the said mortgagor
(for that purpose by these presents duly authorized and
appointed, with full power of substitution and revocation)
to make, execute sell and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers
at such sale right and sufficient deeds of sale of said
premises in fee simple, and to receive the proceeds of such
sale or sales, and from such proceeds to pay all his sums
hereby recovered, whether then all or in full thereunto, or
the part thereof then remaining unpaid, and also the interest
there on on the same, together with all expenses incident
to such sale or sales, for making deeds hereunder, and
for fees of conveyance and attorneys, and all costs or
expenses incurred in the pursuit of said premises, and all
taxes, assessments and sums paid for the same, of any
character whatsoever paid by the said mortgagee his successors
administrators or assigns or their remaining unpaid, upon
said granted premises, servicing and paying the same out
of said proceeds of sale, if any there be, and above the
amounts so to be reimbursed aforesaid, together with a true
and particular account of such sale or sales, expenses and
charges, to the said mortgagor his heirs, executors, administrators
or assigns, which sale or sales more as aforesaid shall
be operating as a perpetual bar both in law and equity against
the said mortgagor his heirs, executors administrators and
all other persons claiming said premises, as whole, by some part or
more thereof, or any of them. I the said
mortgagor, for myself and for my heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the
said mortgagee and his heirs, executors, administrators
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and assigns, that I and they will upon request execute such and
or deeds confirming of said rate or rates as may be required
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety nine
Signed and sealed
in presence of
Elizabeth A Kenyon
Esther A Kenyon
Emma L Kenyon
State of Rhode Island
County of [illegible]
At Richmond on the first day of Dec 1899
before me personally appeared Esther A Kenyon to me
known and known by me to be the party executing the
foregoing instrument and did acknowledge said instrument
to be her free act and will seal
Herbert D Barber
Notary Public
Received for record Dec 1, 1899 at 3 o'clock P.M.
and recorded by George C. [illegible] Town Clerk
I the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction
of the within mortgage recorded in the townes of land evidence in the town
of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island book 205 page 487
hereby cancel and discharge the same, and do covenant and warrant to
forever releasing and paying payment that I am the possessor of said mortgage.
In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this 1st day of Dec 1899
and prayed record the same
John S. Kenyon [illegible]
KNOW ALL Men by these Presents That I
William H. Sisson, me and thirty one years of Charlestown Sisson
and of his wife Emma H. Sisson ell of Charlestown,
Washington County, State of Rhode Island in consideration
of the sum of Twenty Dollars to me paid by Stephen
Connell of the City and County of Providence Rhode Island
the receipt whereof solely acknowledge have conveyed
released and forever quitclaimed and by these presents
do remise release and forever quitclaim unto the said
Stephen Connell his heirs and assigns forever all the
right title interest property claim and demand which
I now have or of right ought to have either in and to
a parcel of land in said town of Charlestown containing
three acres more or less as fully described in a deed
from Catherine Sisson to Randall Sisson dated
December Twenty Second 18th one thousand eight hundred