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DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE
The undersigned, ELSA JOHANSEN, sole and duly qualified Executrix of the Estate of Wilhelm Johansen, Deceased, and sole legatee and devisee under the Last Will and Testament of said Wilhelm Johansen, Deceased, who died on February 25, 1938 and whose will was duly admitted to probate in the Surrogate's Court of the County of New York, State of New York on March 21, 1940, having received full payment and satisfaction of the within mortgage recorded in the records of land evidence in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island, in Mortgage Book Number 24 at page 93, hereby cancel and discharge the same. And I covenant to and with the person making said payment that I am the present owner of said mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I do hereby renunte se my hand and seal this 25th day of April, 1940, A. D.
Signed in presence of ELSA JOHANSEN (L. S.)
STATE OF NEW YORK }
COUNTY OF NEW YORK } SS.
In the City of New York on the 25th day of April, A. D. 1940, before me personally appeared ELSA JOHANSEN, to me known and by me known to be the party executing the foregoing instrument, and she acknowledged said instrument, by her executed, to be her free act and deed.
(Notarial Seal) SAMUEL ROSENTHAL
Samuel Rosenthal,
Notary Public,
Bronx County No. 178
Certificate filed New York County No. 844
Commission expires March 30, 1942
Received for record September 6th, A. D. 1940 at 9:30 o'clock, a.m., and recorded by [?]
Town Clerk
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Walter E. Palmer, of the Town of Hopkinton, in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, Guardian of Walter E. Palmer, Jr., Roma C. Palmer, Kenneth A. Palmer, Russell L. Palmer and Mona E. Palmer, by virtue of authority nominated by me in the Court of Probate of Hopkinton by its decree entered on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1940, all of them minors, in consideration of the sum of Eight Hundred (800) Dollars to me paid by Emory L. Edwards, of said Hopkinton, County and State aforesaid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby remise, release and forever QUITCLAIM unto him, the said Emory L. Edwards, his heirs and assigns forever, all the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand which I, as Guardian aforesaid, and which said minors, Walter E. Palmer, Jr., Roma C. Palmer, Kenneth A. Palmer, Russell L. Palmer and Mona E. Palmer, now have or are of right ought to have, or claim, in and to
A one-half (1/2) undivided interest in a certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Village of Carolina, Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island, bounded and described as follows:
Northerly by the land of the Carolina Baptist Church; easterly by land of Albert E. Brown; southerly, by the heirs of Hattie W. Cole and westerly by the State Highway, or however otherwise the same may be bounded or described by a survey, the same containing by estimation, overall (4) acres.
Meaning and intending to hereby convey the same premises conveyed by Deed from John Tucker, Sarah G. Tucker, Walter E. Browning and Emma A. Browning to Jane Adeline Tucker, said deed dated July 25, 1909 and recorded in the Records of Land Evidence of the Town of Charlestown, Book No. 21 at Pages 124 and 125. Reference to said deed and the records thereof being hereby had and made for a more complete and detailed description of the premises hereby conveyed.