The instrument's own words
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66 In witness whereof we have set our hands and seal and seal
this 28th day of June in the year of our lord one thousand nine
hundred and eighteen (1918)
Signed and sealed in presence of
Ernest Coulthard L.S.
& Henrietta Matilda Coulthard L.S.
Clarence G. Barker
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington
At Richmond on the 28th day of June A.D. 1918
before me personally appeared Ernest Coulthard and Henrietta
Matilda Coulthard, husband and wife who swore to me and sworn
and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing mortgage instrument
and they then and there acknowledged said mortgage to be their executed
to be their free act and deed.
Clarence G. Barker
Notary Public L.S.
my term expires me 6.1.1920
Received for record July 7, 1918 at 4 o'clock A.M.
and recorded by Lucy E. Colborn Town Clerk
I, the undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of
the within mortgage recorded in the deeds of land evidence in the Town of
Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, in Book Number 19, at page 63, hereby
cancel and discharge the same, And covenant with and to the person
making said payment, that I am the present owner of said mortgage.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
20 day of March 1923 A.D. Mary N. James
Introduced Nov. 8, 1923 James
Recorded April 4, 1923
by Lucy E. Colborn Town Clerk
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Superior Court
in South Kingstown Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court
South Kingstown R.I. July 6th 1914
State of Rhode Island Superior Court
County of Washington
Elizabeth K. Wilkinson et al
the
vs
Curtis R. Ringes Eqno 96
The bill of complaint in this cause having been answered
by the complainants on the 2nd day of March A.D. 1915 in presence
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of our order and decree entered in his court that day, and Superior Ct,
decree (widow of said Rachel R. Hodge) her sons Giles and H. Lewis Hodge,
(being all and only of said Rachel R. Hodge) Rose H. G. as administrator of the
estate of said Rachel R. Hodge) moving my Hon. (husband of and heir to said Rachel
R. Hodge) and Mary R. Hodge (wife of said H. Lewis Hodge) wanting other wrought
in and added as parties defendant in this cause and having entered
appearances herein and desiring agreed to the answer filed in this cause
by said Rachel R. Hodge as her joint and sole heir answer,
their cause came on to be heard upon all answer, replications
and pro jct’s and was argued by counsel and thereupon,
in consideration thereof, it appearing that act of the amendments containing
in said act will be sufficient as amended are nice, it is hereby ordered,
adjudged and decreed as follows to wit, That a certain pretended
assignment of tax paid by the collectors of taxes of the town of Charlestown,
Washington co., State of Rhode Island executed in and for the
year 1797 showing they purported to assess a tax in the normal and
usual manner "pretended taxen, assessed state" upon real estate of the
valuation of $15,000, which said pretended tax is included in the
assessment list prepared and voided in said assessors and deposited in the
office of the clerk of said town and appears upon the 5th page of said
list that is and at all times now has been and is hereby declared to be
null and void and of no effect That the pretended roll of certain
land and premises taxed in and in pursuance of the pretended
assessment above referred to executed by Thos R. King, collector of
taxes of said town of Charlestown to the above named Rachel R. Hodge,
and witnessed my a certain deed dated the 11th day of April 1790 and
recorded in the book of records of said town of Charlestown in
Book B page 316 and that at all times since has been and is
hereby declared to be null, void and of no effect
That said deed from Thos R. King Collector of taxes as aforesaid
to said Rachel R. Hodge dated the 11th day of April 1790 and recorded
in said Charlestown land record in Book B page 316 and that
the said record hereat and at all times since have been and are
hereby declared to be null, void and of no effect and the defendants
each of them, in case said deed is in the possession of
them or any of them, are hereby required to consider the said deed
as cancelled by this court and the clerk of this court is hereby ordered
and requested to make an endorsement thereon confirming the cancellation
thereof in accordance with their seal and to deliver the same
so endorsed to the complainants or their attorneys. That the
Town Clerk of said town of Charlestown is hereby ordered
and directed to record further evidence of the cancellation of
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the deed referred to in the most preceding paragraph of this decree
upon its record of said deed in the land recorder of said Town,
that the right title and interest of James J. Keigon, late of
said Town in charleston annexed, and of his assignees and heirs
and devisees in the deeds alone of said James J. Keigon, is and is to
certain land and premises situate in said Town of charleston
and described in its earlier deeds, one from colby J. Thorsen and
stewart Thorsen to said james J. Keigon dated the 5th day of August
1811, and recorded in the book of deeds of Town of charleston
in Book B, No 14 (fourteen) at page 48 (forty eight), and the other from
john B. Reguister to the said james J. Keigon dated the 8th day of
august 1812, and recorded in the land record of said Town of
charleston in Book B, No 14 (fourteen) at page 334 (three hundred
thirty four) of the said date and the record hereof being hereby made
a part of this decree and is not and has not been in any manner
to any person transferred conveyed assigned encumbered or otherwise affected
or impaired of the premises above mentioned by the act aforesaid of
Town of charleston above referred to or by the pretended sale under
said investment of said James M. R. Keigon, collector of taxes for said
Town of charleston, above referred to or by the speciation and
acting by said James M. R. Keigon, collector of taxes, to said colby Thorsen
of said deed dated the 17th day of April, 1814 and recorded in the
land records of said Town of charleston in Book D, No 16 at page 896
above referred to or by the act of said deed in said record land
record, but any and all cloud doubts and questions upon and
in respect to the said title and interest of the said james J. Keigon
and of the complainants in this cause, in and to said land and
premises which neither now nor at any time or may have existed
because of or by means of any of the above mentioned acts as said
taxes or said predicament of my said act collector of taxes or by the
expectation and solvency of said act and collector of taxes or
by the recording of said act in said land record or by reason
of my claim of the said land's Right of Way or of the present defendants
be issued withered and erased. That said defendants
and each of them and the suits and warrants of them and each
of them are hereby perpetually restrained and enjoined from further
interfering upon said land and premises described in the cause
mentioned above which are recorded in said charleston land
records in Book B, No 14 (fourteen) at page 48 (forty eight) and 334
(three hundred thirty four) respectively or upon any portions or
portions of said land and premises, and the said defendants
and each of them are also hereby perpetually restrained and
enjoined from further claiming any right title or interest in
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and to the said land and premises described in said deed s. any part or
parts thereof, and from attempting or pretending to make any transfer
or conveyance of said land and premises or any part or parts thereof
and from pleading or attempting to plead any circumstance thereon
or upon any part or parts thereof. That such and all of the
several parties to this cause, both complainants and defendants, are
hereby released and discharged from all obligations for the payment
of costs.
E. filed at the presence of ourselves this 7th day of July AD 1847.
[Signature] N.H. Cornwell
witnessed to
N. S. Ayre
Mary S. Ayre
Hyre Ayre Feste
George M. Feste
Euphremia N. Ayre
Horse H. H. Feste [illegible]
Enter, Dr. B. Tanner P.J.,
A true copy
attest Dr N.H. Cornwell Clerk
Received for record July 15, 1847 at 1 o'clock PM.
and recorded by George W. Brooks Town recorder
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that
Whereas the Superior Court of the State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations sitting in the County of Washington in said
State of Rhode Island and Prov. in a Decree subsequent entered on the twenty
second day of September AD 1847 in the cause in equity for
partition number 156 (one hundred fifty six) and entitled
"Ellen Ward Ward et al. vs. Sarah A. Kelly et al." appointed
William P. R.askell of the Town of East Providence County of
Providence in said State, Commissioner for the purpose of
making sale at public auction of the real estate described in
the bill of complaint in said cause and to make partition
as directed in said decree, first giving notice of said sale
by advertising the time and place thereof three times each
week for three successive weeks in the Monthly Daily Sun
a public newspaper published in the Town of Westerly