The instrument's own words
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and her heirs and assigns forever,
For in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and seals this twenty sixth day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
Signed and sealed in presence of
William S. Stone to both Jennie Baldwin L.S.
Charles R. Baldwin L.S.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Hampden
Ss.
In Springfield on the twenty sixth day of May
A.D. 1903 before me personally appeared Jennie Baldwin
and Charles R. Baldwin to me known and known by me
to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument and
actually acknowledged said instrument by them sealed
to be their free act and deed
Willmore S. Stone
Henry Butler L.S.
Received for record June 2 1903 at 9 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George own Cross Town Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents,
that we Everett H. Hopies and Annie M. Hopies
wife of said Everett (and in right of said wife) of
Coletown County of Washington, State of Rhode
Island, hereinafter called the mortgagors in
consideration of three hundred and fifty (350)
dollars to us paid by the Narragansett Basin Board of
the town of Narragansett R.I. hereinafter called the mortgagee
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby
give, grant, bargain sell and convey unto the said
mortgagee and its successors and assigns forever,
a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon, situated
in said town of Coletown and laid out and
delineated as Lot One (one) on a certain plat entitled
"Indian Reservation East Side" surveyed and
platted by M. Greene and recorded in said Coletown
and more particularly described in a deed from
Jennie Baldwin to Annie M. Hopies on record in said
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Charlestown reference to the same being made,
to have and to hold the aforementioned premises, with all
the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto and
to the use of the said mortgagee, and its successors and
assigns forever. And we the said mortgagors, do hereby
for ourselves and for our heirs, executors and administrators
covenant with the said mortgagee and its successors and
assigns that we are lawfully seized in fee simple of the
said granted premises, that the same are free from all
encumbrances that we have good right, full power and
lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner
as aforesaid; that the said mortgagee and its successors
and assigns shall by these presents at all times hereafter
peaceably and quietly have and enjoy the said premises,
and that we the said mortgagors will and our heirs,
executors and administrators shall warrant and defend
the same to the said mortgagee and its successors and
assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands
of all persons. And for the consideration
aforesaid I the said Everett H. Atwell husband of said
Jennie M. Atwell do hereby release all my right of
curtesy in and to the said granted premises unto the
said mortgagee and its successors and assigns forever.
Provided, nevertheless this conveyance is made
upon the express condition that if the said mortgagors
or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns shall pay
unto the said mortgagee or its successors or assigns the
sum of three thousand and fifty (3050) dollars whenever
the said mortgagee have made them necessary promissory
notes for said aggregate sum bearing date with
these presents and made payable to the owner of the
Prattville Savings Bank six months from the date
hereof, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum
per annum, payable semiannually until 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 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
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and in the manner aforesaid, or of the taxes or assessments
aforesaid, as the same become payable or of any one or either of
them, or of any part thereof, or if breach shall be made of the
covenant for insurance hereinafter contained then it shall be
lawful for the said mortgagees its successors or assigns, to sell,
together or in parcels all and singular the premises hereby
granted or intended to be granted, or any part or parts thereof,
and the benefit and equity of redemption of the said mortgagors
and their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns therein
at public auction upon the premises, and to bid for and to
become the purchaser or purchasers at any such sale and no
no other purchaser or purchasers shall be answerable 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 some newspaper
published in Washington county with power to adjourn such
sale from time to time, 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 our or in our name or names
or as the attorney or attorneys of the said mortgagors,
for that purpose he is hereby duly authorized and
appointed with full power of substitution and revocation
to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers
at such sale a good and sufficient deed or deeds of
said premises in fee simple, and to receive the proceeds
of such sale or sales, and from such proceeds to
retain all sums hereby secured whether then due or
to fall due thereafter or the part thereof then remaining
unpaid, and also does the interest then due on the same,
together with all expenses incident to such sale or
sales, or for making deeds, conveyances, and for fees of
counsel and attorneys, and all costs or expenses
incurred in the exercise of said powers, and all taxes
assessments and premiums for insurance, if any, either
heretofore paid by the said mortgagees its successors or
assigns, or then remaining unpaid, upon said granted
premises, rendering and paying the surplus of said
proceeds of sale if any there be, over and above the
amounts so to be retained as aforesaid, together with
a true and particular account of such sale or sales
expenses and charges, to the said Everett A. and
Annie M. Hoppe their heirs, executors, administrators
or assigns, which sale or sales moves as aforesaid
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Shall forever be a perpetual bar both in law and equity
against the said Everett H. House & Annie M. House their heirs executors
administrators and assigns, and all persons claiming said
premises, as sold by, from or under them, or any of them.
And we the said mortgagors for ourselves and for our
heirs executors administrators and assigns hereby covenant
with the said mortgagee, and its successors and assigns,
that we and they will upon request execute such deed or
deeds confirmatory of said sale or sales as may be required,
And furthermore, we the said mortgagors for ourselves
and for our heirs executors administrators and assigns
hereby covenant with the said mortgagee, and its successors
and assigns, that insurance against loss by fire shall be
kept and maintained on the buildings or the premises
erected in such office or offices as the said mortgagee and
its successors or assigns shall approve, in a sum not less
than four thousand dollars, and that the policy or policies
of said insurance shall be assigned and transferred or made
payable in case of loss, to the said mortgagee, or its successors
or assigns, as collateral security hereto, and in default they
hereby agree, that the said mortgagee, or its successors or
assigns, may effect such insurance in the name of the
said mortgagee and their heirs and assigns, payable
in case of loss to the said mortgagee, and its successors
or assigns, and that the premium or premiums paid therefor
shall be a further charge upon said granted premises secured
by these presents.
In witness whereof we
have hereunto set our hands and seals this 28th day of
May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and three.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Everett H. House L.S.
Annie M. House L.S.
Besie M. Boxer
George G. Coxon
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
In Charlestown on the 28th day of May A.D. 1903, before
me personally appeared Everett H. House and Annie M.
House to me known and known by me to be the parties
executing the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged
said instrument by them executed, to be their free act and
deed.
George G. Coxon Notary Public
Received for record June 3 1903 at 9 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George G. Coxon Town Clerk
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