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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: I, WILLIAM D. CROSS, Collector of Taxes, for
the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, state of Rhode Island, for the year 1938,
SEND GREETING: WHEREAS the taxpayers of said Town of Charlestown, at their annual Finan-
cial Town Meeting duly notified and held on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1938, voted and ordered
the assessment and collection of a tax on the real estate and taxable and tangible personal property
of the owners of real and personal estate in said Town of Charlestown; AND WHEREAS, on the 15th
day of June, A. D. 1938, the Board of Tax Assessors of said Town made such assessment and fixed
the rate thereon of $1.20 on each one hundred dollars valuation of the ratable real estate and
tangible personal property, and the tax bill in due form delivered to me with the warrant duly
signed attached thereto, by the Town Treasurer, of said Town, requiring me to proceed according
to law and collect said tax and place the same in the Town Treasury of said Town.
AND WHEREAS, EDWARD M. TILLINGHAST, neglected to pay the tax assessed against him as ex-
pressed in said tax bill amounting to Twenty-four Dollars eighty-four Cents ($24.84) and in con-
sequence thereof I did on the last day of March, A. D. 1939 levy warrant upon that certain
tract or parcel of real estate as shown and designated as Lot 76, Assessors' Plat 2, and appear-
ing on Original Tax List and Tax Bill 1938, as belonging to said Edward M. Tillinghast, in said
Charlestown, and did advertise the same for sale at three public places in said Town of Charles-
town, viz: the Parishioners Office, Freight's Garage, Grinnell's Garage, store of C. Brown &
Son, and also in the "Easterly Daily Sun," a newspaper published in said County of Washington, for
more than twenty days previous to said sale, and on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1939, at 12:30
o'clock, p. m., Eastern Standard Time, at the Town Hall, in said Town, I proceeded to sell at
public auction, by Robert P. Day, a qualified auctioneer, the premises aforesaid, and Ray P.
Escoleston, of the Town of North Stonington, State of Connecticut, was the highest bidder.
NOW, KNOW YE, that by consideration of the sum of Thirty-five dollars seventy-five Cents
($35.75) to me paid by said Ray P. Escoleston the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge I, do
hereby sell and convey unto said Ray P. Escoleston, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the right,
title and interest which said Edward M. Tillinghast had in and to said premises at the time of its
assessing tax sale, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging: for a description of said prem-
ises, reference is hereby made and to Assessors' Plats and Cards on file in the office of the
Town Clerk of said Town of Charlestown and to the Land Evidence Records of said Town.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Alice G. Brady, her heirs and assigns, forever
(subject to the right of redemption as provided by law).
And I, the said William D. Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, do covenant with the
said Alice G. Brady, her heirs and assigns, that I have advertised the said property as hereinbe-
fore stated and have complied with the terms of the law regulating the collection of taxes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of May, A. D. 1939.
In the presence of
LINTON L. BROWN
(SEAL)
WILLIAM D. CROSS
Collector of Taxes, Town of
Charlestown for the year 1938.
STATES OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1939, before me personally appeared William D.
Cross, Collector of Taxes, as aforesaid, to me known and known by me to be the party executing
the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged said instrument, by him executed, to be by his own
free act and deed, individually, and in his official capacity aforesaid.
LINTON L. BROWN, Notary Public.
Received for record May 11th, A. D. 1939 at 9:55 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
Town Clerk