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We, JOHN F. SMITH and MABEL F. SMITH, husband and wife, both of the Town of
Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island for consideration paid, grant to
ALBERT S. BROWN, of said Town, County and State with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the
payment of ONE Thousand (1000) Dollars in four (4) years with interest at six (6) per cent
um per annum, payable semi-annually in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory
note of own date herewith.
That certain real estate situated in Charlestown, County of Washington in the State
of Rhode Island, and described as follows:
a certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon standing, situated on the southerly side of the State
Highway leading from the village of Charlestown to the Upper River Junction, in said
Town of Charlestown which tract of land is described as follows:
Beginning at a point at the northeasterly corner of the tract hereunto conveyed
and at the northeasterly corner of the premises of Carlson L. Palmer,
at said point being on the easterly side of said State Highway, then running south,
southerly bounded by said tract Palmer land, a distance of three hundred fifty
eight (358) feet; thence bounding on the land of said Palmer, bounded on the north
of Louis B. Ducote, et ux, a distance of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet;
thence bounding on the land of said Ducote, et ux, running northerly, and at ux
a distance of three hundred ninety feet, bounded on the east, to said State High-
way land; thence westerly, along said State Highway, a distance of one hundred
twenty-five (125) feet, to the point and place of beginning or however
otherwise the same may be bounded or described.
This mortgage is made upon the STATUTORY CONDITION and with the STATUTORY POWER
OF SALE.
WITNESS our hands this first day of August, 1938.
JOHN W. SMITH
MABEL F. SMITH.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the first day of August, 1938 before me personally appeared
John W. Smith and Mabel F. Smith, husband and wife, both 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.
LINTON L. BROWN
Notary Public.
Received for record August 2nd, A. D. 1939 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
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 Charlestown in the State
of Rhode Island, as follows: Book 358 Page 358, do hereby cancel and discharge the
same. And I covenant to and with the person making said payment that I am the sole owner
of said mortgage. In WITNESS WHEREOF, i have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of
September, 1939.
ALBERT S. BROWN
Above discharge received for record September 22, A. D. 1939, and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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