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We, ASA C. CHURCH and LAURA E. CHURCH, husband and wife, both of the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, for consideration paid, grant to HELEN B. CHURCH, of said Town, County and State with MORTGAGE COVENANTS, to secure the payments of EIGHTEEN HUNDRED (1800) DOLLARS in five (5) years with interest at four (4%) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually not in advance as provided in a certain negotiable promissory note of even date hereinabove,
That certain real estate situated in the Town of Charlestown, County of Washington, State of Rhode Island aforesaid, and described as follows:
That certain tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in said Town of Charlestown, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of the Post Road, So-called, said point being the southeasterly corner of the premises hereunto conveyed and the southwestern corner of land formerly of Henrietta Bloomer; thence running easterly, boundary running easterly, along said Post Road, a distance of seventy-five (75) feet; thence turning and running northerly, maintaining a distance of seventy-five (75) feet from the Post Road, to said Bloomer's land, a distance of Two Hundred Twenty Three (223) feet, more or less, to a stone wall; thence running easterly, boundary running easterly, along said stone wall, a distance of seventy-five (75) feet, to land formerly of said Bloomer; thence running southerly along said Bloomer's land, to a distance of Two Hundred Twenty-three (223) feet, more or less, 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.
We, Asa C. Church and Laura E. Church husband and wife release to the mortgagee all our right of curtesy & dower and all other interest in the aforesaid premises.
WITNESS our hands this 1st day of May 1940.
ASA C. CHURCH
LAURA E. CHURCH
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND )
County of Washington )
In Charlestown on the 1st day of May 1940 before me personally appeared Asa C. Church and Laura E. Church, 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 May 2nd, A. D. 1940 at 9:15 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by
[Signature]
Town Clerk
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DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE
The undersigned, having received full payment and satisfaction of a certain mortgage recorded in the records of land evidence in the Town of Charlestown, in the State of Rhode Island, in Book number 28 at page 195, hereby cancel and discharge the same. And I covenant to and with the person making said payment that I am the present owner of the said mortgage.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, HELEN B. CHURCH, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of April A.D. 1961
Signed in the presence of
Thea A. Marlton
Aitken R. Gladden
HELEN B. CHURCH (seal)
Received for record May 10th, A.D. 1961 at 1:30 o'clock, p.m. and recorded by
[Signature]
Deputy Town Clerk