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4/21/1917 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · book 14 page 490 doc 5955

From EDWARDS JAMES C life, EDWARDS ELIZABETH R life
To RATHBUN COURTLAND B M, RATHBUN NELLIE F
Premises not described (Charlestown)

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1903 · MORTGAGE · RATHBUN COURTLAND B M; RATHBUN NELLIE F → EDWARDS ELIZABETH R; EDWARDS JAMES C · book 14 p 487

Forward — where this land went

⛔ The record we hold stops here: no later instrument we have read cites this one, and no later conveyance by the grantee is linked by name. The index is complete to 1987, so the gap is in the words: deeds of this era seldom cite book and page, and only about half the instruments of 1936-1965 have been transcribed (some 6,000 were never imaged), so a citation to this deed may sit in a page not yet read.

The instrument's own words

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490 [page number] taxes, assessments and premiums for insurance, of any either heretofore paid by the said mortgagees their executors, administrators 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 returned as aforesaid, together with a true and particular account of such sale or sales expenses and charges to the said Courtenay B. M. Rathbun his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns which sale or sales made as aforesaid shall be a perpetual bar both in law and equity against the said Courtenay B. M. Rathbun his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, and all persons claiming said premises so sold, by from a under him, them or any of them. And I the said mortgagor for myself and for my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant with the said mortgagees and their heirs, executors administrators and assigns, that I and they will upon request execute such deed or deeds confirmatory of said sale or sales as may be required, Provided however and it is mutually agreed by and between the said mortgagor and mortgagees that in case of death of the said mortgagor before the said promissory note and the interest thereof is fully paid or said note is due, said mortgagees may immediately foreclose said mortgage with the same effect as though said note had become fully due, any thing hereinbefore expressed to the contrary notwithstanding, In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and sealed this 12th day of September in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and three, Signed and sealed in presence of George B. Colves Courtenay B. M. Rathbun L.S. Bessie M. Lorves, Nellie F. Rathbun L.S. State of Rhode Island county of Washington Ss. on the 12th day of September A.D. 1903 before me personally appeared Courtenay B. M. Rathbun and Nellie F. Rathbun it 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 and voluntary act and deed. George B. Colves Notary Public Received for record Sept 12th 1903 at 11 oclock A.M. and recorded by George B. Colves Town Clerk [Marginalia on left side]: The mortgage of this property is now cancelled by a release recorded in Book 543 Page 126 dated Oct 1st 1911 The mortgage of this property is now cancelled by a release recorded in Book 543 Page 126 dated Oct 1st 1911

The page as recorded

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deed_walker_v1.9_2026-10-10 · the index is the town's own (i2l.uslandrecords.com); transcripts, chains and the assessor's cards are the Perry Machine's reading of it. Where the record we hold runs out, the page says so.