The instrument's own words
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To me known and known by me to be the parties executing
the foregoing instrument and severally acknowledged said
instrument by them executed to be their free act and deed.
Geo. H. Halsey
Notary Public S.S
my term expires June 30 1849
Received for record November 2, 1808 at 10 oclock A.M.
and recorded by George own. Connor Town Clerk
I the undersigned, having received full payment and
satisfaction of the within mortgage recorded in the records of
land evidence in the town of Colebrook in the state of Rhode Island
in record book number 16 at page 197, hereby cancel and discharge
the same, And do renounce and with the person making said
payment that and the present owner of said mortgage.
In my presence whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 30th day of December AD 1837.
Anna J. Dawley S.S.
KNOW ALL men by these presents, that
we William P. G. Barker and Myrtle Barker his wife
of the town of Richmond, in the county of Washington and
State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the mortgagors
in consideration of the sum of Eight Hundred ($800)
dollars to us paid by Amos J. Dawley of said town of
Richmond, hereinafter called the mortgagee, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant,
bargain, sell and convey unto the said mortgagee
and his heirs and assigns forever, that certain lot
or parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements
thereon, situate in the town of Colebrook in said
County on the North side of the highway leading from
Newport to Eastly mills, containing five thousand (5000)
square feet be the same more or less and bounded as
follows, to wit: commencing at the southwest corner of
said lot at a stone post by said highway Thence
running Northerly on land of Joseph M. Cabot one
hundred (100) feet to a stone post left in the ground,
thence Eastly on land of Florence and Annie E.
Weston forty (40) feet to a stone post set in the
ground, Thence southerly on said Weston land
one hundred (100) feet to a stone post set in the ground
recorded
July 1st
1873
by George B. Connor
Town Clerk